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They de-dupe files and surely have negotiated with Amazon. Still seems like they should start opening their own data centers otherwise they never have a chance
by jonknee 12y ago
They de-dupe files and surely have negotiated with Amazon. Still seems like they should start opening their own data centers otherwise they never have a chance beating their own supplier at price.
- danudey 12y agoI wouldn't be surprised to see them buy up a company like Backblaze. It seems like a reasonable fit; Dropbox is already moving from document sync to 'all your stuff' sync. Adding straight-up backup would be a logical next step, and Backblaze has a huge amount of experience designing, building, and managing massive storage infrastructure. The biggest difference with Backblaze would seem to be that their service can easily assume minimal reads; besides the backup index, the vast majority of their disk usage is probably one-time writes, plus the occasional massive bulk read.