Thanks! We really do this so that others follow suite. It's sort of happened with Facebook's Open Compute, and Netflix's Open Connect releasing some of their da

Thanks! We really do this so that others follow suite. It's sort of happened with Facebook's Open Compute, and Netflix's Open Connect releasing some of their data. Dropbox recently brought things in-house as well, so we're hoping they start talking about their goodies too! It makes things more interesting, and inexpensive storage opens up the possibilities for a lot of cool stuff. My favorite example is science labs. We've heard from a lot of them that they used to run experiments, collect the relevant data, and toss the rest. It was less expensive to run the experiment again than storing all of the data. That's changing now with storage being less expensive, and they're able to keep the entire experiment data set intact, and they love that because it means in the future they can take a look at all of the information surrounding their findings, and if the technology or science changes, they'll have the entire data set to play with instead of just a subset. Very cool stuff!