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On Nov 11, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Phil Cryer wrote:
Nice article - did you consider anything like Hadoop, which is
Yahoo's open source distributed filesystem/distributed computing
application? I've been looking at it and had a demo setup just to
If you are interested in Hadoop's distributed filesystem HDFS [1] you
might also be interested in Tahoe [2].
The downside to things like Hadoop and Tahoe as compared with S3 are
that you have to manage the machines and services yourself, rather
than paying someone else to do it in the cloud. But
Relatedly, just today Fedora Commons and DSpace have announced a
project called DuraSpace:
'''Over the next six months funding from the planning grant will allow
the organizations to jointly specify and design DuraSpace, a new
web-based service that will allow institutions to easily distribute
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 10:21 -0500, Peter Murray wrote:
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On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Tim Shearer wrote:
Anybody doing mass storage for their library/consortium on amazon s3?
Anybody rejected it as an idea?
Willing to share? Please do.
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On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Tim Shearer wrote:
Anybody doing mass storage for their library/consortium on amazon s3?
Anybody rejected it as an idea?
Willing to share? Please do.
Tim,
I looked at the idea in comparison with OCLC's Digital
