I used to really look for news on the rumored GDrive, but with Amazon S3 available now I'm not sure I'm as excited. I wonder if they'd have a different offering.
'... but with Amazon S3 available now I'm not sure I'm as excited ...'
it's an older article but anything google does changes B) the economics and B) gives greater choice.
'... wonder if they'd have a different offering ...'
Been thinking about this. I've been getting reports back about data + storage + access/retrieval [0]. My bet is something. There is an explosion of data occurring. The question is
- what types of data storage of the web going to be?
- what is the sql or retrieval method of the web?
- what are the tools to interact?
- what factors influence storage?
Also with storage it relies on bandwidth. What is the law on bandwidth? It's not like Moore`s law and relies on external forces beyond mere commodity markets. Well luck has it that there's Nielsen`s law [1] describing the increase of bandwidth per year, around 50%. So Moore`s law is number of transistors doubling every 18 months with an increase of about 60% per year. So anything google do with BigData will depend to some degree on peoples access to bandwidth.
What is google and others doing with bandwidth?
Reference
[0] Joe Gregorio, bitworking.org, 'ETech 07 Summary Part 2 MegaData'
