Interesting comparison of hardware vendors from a photo-sharing site, SmugMug:
Sun ended up winning their business, largely on the basis of the X2200 M2, which is interesting in of itself. The list of pros and cons is worth reading. Sun continues to be a fascinating company to watch, with great technology, but backed into a strategic corner with a questionable business model.
Separately, but also from Don McAskill’s blog, an interesting post on Amazon’s S3 service. I’ve been looking around for a good S3-based backup offering but haven’t found one yet. Jungledisk seems like it’s the closest, but I’d prefer something a bit more mature.
[…] Via TechCrunch, news that Mozy, an online-storage service, has scored a huge contract with GE to provide backup services for all of GE’s 300,000-some employees. Pretty good for a little Utah startup in a very crowded space.As I’ve written before, I’ve been following the online storage for a while and I’m surprised that it isn’t more mature. The market, which seems like a no-brainer, really has not yet taken off. Who doesn’t need it? Mozy’s version of online storage is focused very narrowly on backup; competitors also offer shared workspaces, synchronization between machines, and so on. […]