You should also check out http://www.alfresco.com/. It was started by some of the founders of Documentum and Interwoven. It does some interesting Enterprise Content Management foo, which may be of use to you.
This may be useful for a kiosk application. I know a few folks that build kiosks that make use of a web browser and wifi to present some specific functionality at various locations around town. Given the mobo has built in wifi and a web-browser that can retain its settings - it might be a viable solution for these folks...
About a year ago, we went through an evaluation of different data protection technologies to replace a tape based platform we were using at the time. I wanted to get away from tape if I could - I simply had a problem buying 5x more media then data I was protecting.
I came across a company called Avamar (http://www.avamar.com/). They do something similar, except they deduplicate the data on the client side, before it ever traverses the network. Needless to say, I was a bit skeptical with their claims. I was able to con them into letting me eval the platform for 3 months. As it turns out - it works as advertised.
I was able to consolidate 2 large tape libraries (L700's) into 8 x Dell 2850's - all running Redhat Enterprise, all with 6 x 300GB SCSI drives in them. We are currently protecting 7TB of data (Note: The hardware is currently 58% utilized). We process 20,000 backup jobs a month. And as an example, pulled directly from last night's activity log, we performed a full backup of a Windows box with 100GB of data on it in less than 15 minutes. (Note:
The science behind this is very practical.
I think what the Net companies are worried about is Verizon's ability to provide solid transit service. Given that routing decisions have nothing to do with performance metrics (typically speaking), it is possible for traffic to route across Verizon's network even if neither party pays Verizon for connectivity. If an end user has a poor user experience because the transit network is fubar, that user may have a better time on a competitor's site. (Legal bla bla bla damages bla bla bla e pluribus unum bla bla bla...)
On the flip side, they spent the money for the network, they can do whatever the hell they like with it. If you have a problem with that, go to a non-capitalistic country.
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You should also check out http://www.alfresco.com/. It was started by some of the founders of Documentum and Interwoven. It does some interesting Enterprise Content Management foo, which may be of use to you.
This may be useful for a kiosk application. I know a few folks that build kiosks that make use of a web browser and wifi to present some specific functionality at various locations around town. Given the mobo has built in wifi and a web-browser that can retain its settings - it might be a viable solution for these folks...
I came across a company called Avamar (http://www.avamar.com/). They do something similar, except they deduplicate the data on the client side, before it ever traverses the network. Needless to say, I was a bit skeptical with their claims. I was able to con them into letting me eval the platform for 3 months. As it turns out - it works as advertised.
I was able to consolidate 2 large tape libraries (L700's) into 8 x Dell 2850's - all running Redhat Enterprise, all with 6 x 300GB SCSI drives in them. We are currently protecting 7TB of data (Note: The hardware is currently 58% utilized). We process 20,000 backup jobs a month. And as an example, pulled directly from last night's activity log, we performed a full backup of a Windows box with 100GB of data on it in less than 15 minutes. (Note: The science behind this is very practical.
On the flip side, they spent the money for the network, they can do whatever the hell they like with it. If you have a problem with that, go to a non-capitalistic country.