Facebook data storage

Sprout Core Javascript library data storage interfaces.

Google Gadgets offer a simple persistence mechanism - setprefs. You can store simple properties (up to 2K) in a user-specific store that the gadget can reload later.

var prefs = new gadgets.Prefs();
var count = prefs.getInt("counter");
prefs.set("counter", count + 1);

10GB of storage and 5TB of free streaming per month is offered for free for Silverlight Streaming content.

Quoted: Windows Live Developer: Platform and Services for Web Mashups

Is S3 a single point of failure for Web 2.0 companies? One of the 3 S-3 data centers went down for 2 hours on Friday morning. Given that people noticed a complete outage - requests seem NOT to have failed over to the other centers.

Amazon seems serious about responding to this - but seems like they have a fundamental system problem.

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This could be a really good solution for home backup and shared storage. For $600 you get 500GB of storage, with room to expand to 2TB via the 4 hot-swappable SATA drive bays -> total cost about $900. Compares favorably to a Buffalo TeraStation - and probably much faster as the TeraStation is known to have performance problems due to a slow processor.

Quoted: Amazon.com: HP EX470 MediaSmart Home Server (AMD Live/ 64 Bit Sempron Processor, 500 GB Hard Drive): Computers & PC Hardware

I hadn't noticed Microsoft shipped this Home Server product this fall. This site is a clever "viral marketing" campaign to promote it, featuring a Stephen Colbert look-a-like who does a series of interviews to cover the "controversy" of having a Home Server.

This second video on this site is particularly funny.

Home Server provides:

- Backup
- Remote Access
- Media Storage and Streaming

I wish I had looked into using this before buying the NAS I'm using at home as it looks like a more complete solution than just "storage" on my home network. It also seems that the software is priced competitively in that 1T servers are selling in the $700 price range (MS provides a software download for evaluation only - you have to buy a pre-installed version of Home Server from a hardware manufacturer).

The development team's blog is at:

http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/

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Quoted: One of the least visible milestones in computing came this summer with the release of Windows Home Server, software that's designed to let PC builders create systems that form the hub of a digital home. Regardless of what you think about Microsoft, the software, as well as the trickle of computers that will support it, legitimizes a trend that lots of people have been struggling with for several years.