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I am wondering why they don't ask large cloud providers to donate storage. If amazon, microsoft, google, rackspace, joyent, etc all gave them 10pb worth of data
by willejs 12y ago
I am wondering why they don't ask large cloud providers to donate storage. If amazon, microsoft, google, rackspace, joyent, etc all gave them 10pb worth of data, they could just make a facade to their apis and store all the data on there, and just keep one copy of the data and a database of files?
A distributed or p2p model is a great idea, but it seems very difficult to achieve.
- jedberg 12y agoYou know, Amazon alone could provide this. The retail cost of 20PB of Glacier storage is $222,100.96/mo. Assuming they have a margin of 50%, that's $110K a month in actual cost to them, so basically their "donation" would be $1.2MM/year, which is 0.01% of their revenue ($90B). Even if their margin is 0, that's still only 0.02% of their revenue.