Storage on Bruno Pedro

Amazon Glacier

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:45:29 +0000

Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions.

Harvard cracks DNA storage

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:36:43 +0000

Harvard cracks DNA storage

A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data – around 700 terabytes – in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.

Vimeo will delete originals after one week

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:41:49 +0000

Quoting New source file policy on Vimeo Staff Blog:

Starting August 1st, basic accounts’ original source files will be stored for one week from the upload date, after which they will be removed.

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This new one-week policy applies to all basic accounts’ videos uploaded from this point onwards. For videos that were uploaded before this blog post, those original files will be available until August 1st, to give you some time to download them if you need to. After August 1st, those files will also be removed.

Should twitter have its own data storage?

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:34:56 +0000

Now that twitter OAuth feature is in public beta, some people argue that twitter should also provide a data storage facility through their API. This would allow developers to add payloads to different twitter objects but would create another information silo, instead of leveraging existing data storage providers.

I agree with Kevin Marks when he asks “Why should the storage and the event stream come from the same provider?”.

Quoting Dave Winer’s article “Twitter and OAuth, interesting brew”: