Dallas/Ft. Worth Unix Users Group

Name	Service	Audience	Cost	Coolness
Coolest Remote Data Services - StorageMojo chart ^{Updated 061007}
Mozy by Berkeley Data Systems	unlimited, automatic, secure	Personal, SOHO and low-end SMB	2GB Free, Unlimited $4.95 mo.	Designed to compete directly with Carbonite
Carbonite	Unlimited Windows Backup	The Masses	$5/mo	Encrypted, Cheap, Easy
Cleversafe	Secure, reliable business storage	Business	In Beta	A Paranoids Happy Place
Gmail	2.7 GB capacity, email too	Geeky Cheapskates	Free	Storage With An Email Face
Openomy	1 GB Multi-app data store	Developers	Free For Now	Open WinFS for Hipsters
Amazon S3	Rent-A-Gig	Developers	$0.15/GB/Mo	Industrial Strength Web Service Add Jungle Disk and it's like an extra hard drive on your computer
rsync.net	Rent-A-Gig	Linux Users	$1.80/GB/Mo $3.15/GB/Mo (redundant)	Very Linux Friendly - Built for use by rsync!
xDrive	AOL Service	AOL Users	5GB Free, more for Fee	AOL Users already have access
MediaMax (by Streamload)	Huge storage aimed at media file storage	Everyone with a Browser or a penchant for API use	25GB Free 1TB $30/Mo	Huge space, Browser based, API Available
Bingo!	25/50/100GB distributed storage on Sun X4500s (ZFS File System)	Most Unixes, WebDAV Mac OSX, Windows XP	Storage/bandwidth 25GB,50GB,100GB $49,$99,$199/Year	Annual price plan only. Bandwidth is monthly to allow Full backups. Protected against disk failure
IBackup	Secure Online Storage plus Backup	Backup conscious users	Storage + Backup 5GB,50GB,100GB $9.95,$49.95,$99.95/Mo	Like having an extra hard drive right on your computer

What a Web Business wants from Storage

Don MacAskill's Blog Amazon S3 post - Don MacAskill is SmugMug's CEO & Chief Geek

Don MacAskill's Blog Home - Search for �Amazon S3″ on my blog to find all of the relevant posts if you�re curious - I write a lot about it. My ETech slides are probably the most recent and relevant.

SmugMug - We�re a huge user of Amazon�s S3 product. To the tune of more than 200TB. We also have our own internal filesystem we still use which was built prior to S3 - and it�s very similar in concept to S3/GoogleFS/MogileFS/etc. So on one end of the spectrum (our database end), we need super fast I/O, and lots of it. On the other end, we need big huge capacity and reliability. So we span the gamut.

What a web business wants from storage - StorageMojo Source Article on SmugMug

User Experience

Jungle Disk - Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com's S3 � Storage Service

Jungle Disk connects you to Amazon S3 - Web Strategy by Jeremiah Blog post January 02, 2007

Comparisons and Reviews of Online Storage Services

Mozy - Excellent services comparison chart

Online Backup Services Reviews - ConsumerSearch January 2007

The Online Storage Gang - Good article, comparison chart

Online Storage: Extend Your Hard Disk to the Web - Hard drive low on free space? Avoid a costly storage upgrade with online storage services - PC World

Store It on the Web - Review of free and low-cost services that make it easier than ever to back up and share your files online - PC World

Desktop RAID is a bad idea

Storage Bits - Robin Harris - Use Online Storage instead

StorageMojo - Finally, some drive model failure numbers - More info on RAID and Online Storage

Puget Custom Computers - Why RAID is (usually) a Terrible Idea - Source article for this topic

Wave of the Future

Why I think future Online Data Storage companies will Pay You to Upload Data - Web Strategy by Jeremiah Blog post January 03, 2007

Online Backup's Inflection Point - Brief but good Online Storage Blog post from December 12, 2005

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