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Amazon's Simple Storage Solution (S3)
Posted by Paul Sturgess on August 29, 2008
Amazon is undoubtedly one of the web’s most successful online shops, a global brand, with operations all over the world. However, it’s not just selling products anymore.
Just one of the growing pains Amazon has faced over the years was the requirement for a scalable storage infrastructure.
Amazon invested in building their own solution and with their experience and expertise in this area they realised a business opportunity was there to be had and released their Simple Store Solution (S3) to the web industry.
S3 offers unlimited storage with high availability, low latency and low costs.
Recently at Kyan we’ve been increasingly taking advantage of S3 in our projects. Amazon’s storage is redundant and unlimited which makes it perfect for backups.
It also allows businesses that work with large amounts of collateral to concentrate on their core competencies and not waste resources implementing and managing a storage infrastructure.
Amazing really when you think Amazon started back in 1995 as a simple on-line book store.
Free The Airwaves!
Posted by Paul Sturgess on August 22, 2008
As the U.S. TV broadcasters switch over to digital tranmissions a great debate is just starting out…
Who gets to use the fuzzy white noise that’s left behind?
Google are campaigning for the redundant spectrum to be put to good use.
Most notably for WiFi 2.0
A longer-range wireless technology that wouldn’t be owned by any one company. WiFi 2.0 offers the possibility of, to quote Google, “Affordable, ubiquitous, high-speed Internet connections to all Americans, anywhere, at any time.”
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will soon decide on the future of the spectrum and whether it will be opened up. Google have started a petition and are encouraging everyone to spread the word via their YouTube channel.
GPS coordinates where I was not this afternoon
Posted by Phil Balchin on August 21, 2008
With our new fanlged iPhones, today i did a little experiment. Using the free InstaMapper iPhone app, I recorded, every 2 minutes my GPS position. My iPhone didn’t move all afternoon … interesting … i’m putting this down to a Government conspiracy, that or my iPhone is lying to me. not sure which one yet.
Just for reference, i was sitting right under the green diamond
iPhone lowdown - Do we believe the hype?
Posted by Gavin Shinfield on August 19, 2008
So I’ve been using my ‘breakthrough mobile internet device’ for about a week now. Does it live up to expectations?
3G iPhones: They're he-re...
Posted by Gavin Shinfield on August 11, 2008
Our long awaited iPhones arrived on Friday.
The phones arrived with blank O2 SIMs that had to be activated, for my part (because I was porting my old number from Voda) this meant waiting over the weekend.
So, after a frustrating 72hrs of having a non-working iPhone the device finally started working at lunchtime today.
We’ll let you know how we get on…