http://securityratty.com/tag/plan9 Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:47:08 +0000 iRatty Engine http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://securityratty.com/article/b1c9ab39242115dcbfca20a257fb5d78 http://securityratty.com/article/b1c9ab39242115dcbfca20a257fb5d78 The existence of cheap and presumed-reliable storage services such as Amazon S3 will cause a burst of innovation in personal and corporate storage options. A particularly good fit: content-addressible storage schemes such as plan9 venti and git, that offer frugal use of bandwidth (important when metered), and attractive features like version snapshots “for free.” A little searching shows one talented software developer thinking along these lines already: “Brad Fitzpatrick: wsbackup — encrypted, over-the-net, multi-versioned backup.” There will be more.

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