Bill Grosso Engage.com (moderator), David Young Joyent, Jeff Barr Amazon, Patrick Harr Nirvanix

Again, energy lagging. let's see what I can do. this looks like the grown-up panel.

Amazon: cool ideas to successful product is "the muck" hardware, software, costs, load balancing, viral growth, bandwidth management. we have services so you can ignore that.

• S3
• web services api
• pay as you go
• storate $.15/gb/mo
• once you are in the amazon cloud you canmove it around wiht no extra charge
• EC2
• resiable computer capacity in the cloud
• full root acccess ot a blank linus machine
• $.10/server/hr + bandwidth

• SQS
• distributed queue in the cloud
• used for storing messaging travellign between computers
• reliable cheap

• open stack
• force 10 routers
• sun x4150 servers, sun 4500
  
• verticle scale up to 32gb ram and 8cpus
• horizontal scale, not software load balancing but hardware load balencing
• vertical+horizontal = true web scale.
  
• persistant sotrage that works with Accelerators.
• 10% rule, you should not spend more than 10% of your revenue on your infrastructure.

• the downsource model
• b2b storage service
• digital locker service
• backup applications
• photo and video hosting
• audio/video transcoding and image resizing/manipulation
• control costs: set storage
• effortless management, scalable ondemand business model
• user experience: internode and intranode load balancing enables fast global storage and delivery
• HTTP upload
• integrated media transcoding
• integrated seach capabilities - lets users tag and search content
• complete internet media service
• similar pricing $.18 gb/mo SLA, cusotmer support
• reference applications
  
• vista, ftp, web locker, flash widget uploader

Hi,

Thanks for the writeup. If you need more info, I'd be happy to have lunch and go over what we talked about in the panel.

Bill

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