http://www.talis.com/tdn/node/1323 Comments for "An API for storage?" en http://www.talis.com/tdn/node/1323 <p>Blogged in <a href="http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2006/03/amazon_do_stora.html">Panlibus</a> - Amazon have released a web service storage service.</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/14/amazon-grid-storage-web-service-launches/">blogosphere</a> seems to think it could be game changing.</p> <p>Does this mean the end of the data centre?</p> <p>Why fly a new disk pack + air con + UPS + support staff for your new database/archive/registry, when you could pay Amazon $0.15/GB/Month to do it for you?</p> <p>How many of your eggs would you trust Amazon to put in their basket?</p> <p>Given cheep web storage, what new toys could we build?</p> <p><a href="http://www.talis.com/tdn/node/1323">read more</a></p> http://www.talis.com/tdn/node/1323#comments APIs, Web Services, etc Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:50:36 +0000 Richard Wallis 1323 at http://www.talis.com/tdn