http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211467 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:47:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211467 [...] has moved from beta to general availability. We wrote last year when the service launched about how our broadband infrastructure isn’t robust enough to handle terabytes of information quickly and affordably, which meant that certain AWS clients [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211466 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:38:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211466 [...] time associated with moving terabytes of data back and forth from a lab to the cloud. Amazon has solved the data problem by using the postal service and also by acting as a free repository from some types of scientifically valuable information. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211465 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:02:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211465 [...] is about three times faster than normal. Solving the problem of sending large files to the cloud led Amazon earlier this year to offer a service that lets people mail their files to the online retailer rather than try to send [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211464 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:01:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211464 [...] Links: Amazon goes Postal Text While Driving Poll Results GPS System close to failure? Study Ball [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211463 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:12:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211463 [...] [From Amazon’s New Service Goes Postal Over Slow Broadband] [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211462 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:02:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211462 [...] In fact, they are so bad, some leading cloud providers have recently offered their customers to ship hard drives rather than transferring files over the network. The performance limitations of ubiquitous transfer [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211461 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:18:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211461 [...] reports. Share and [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211460 Tue, 26 May 2009 09:22:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211460 [...] large amounts of data” to and from Amazon’s S3 cloud-based storage solution. Only it doesn’t rely on improved network infrastructure—instead, it relies on the good old fashioned US Postal [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211459 Tue, 26 May 2009 09:08:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211459 [...] large amounts of data” to and from Amazon’s S3 cloud-based storage solution. Only it doesn’t rely on improved network infrastructure—instead, it relies on the good old fashioned US Postal [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211458 Tue, 26 May 2009 06:22:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211458 [...] to this GigaOm post, and via this techdirt post, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels explains in a blog post that a terabyte of [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211457 Tue, 26 May 2009 03:15:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211457 [...] large amounts of data” to and from Amazon’s S3 cloud-based storage solution. Only it doesn’t rely on improved network infrastructure—instead, it relies on the good old fashioned US Postal [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211456 Sat, 23 May 2009 02:43:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211456 [...] for interoperability theregister.co.uk RIAA politicians denounce other countries theinquirer.net Amazon s New Service Goes Postal Over Slow Broadband gigaom.com Hulu Preps UK Launch ispreview.co.uk NCTA: Competition ‘Unquestionably’ [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211455 Fri, 22 May 2009 17:21:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211455 We are so glad Amazon made initial data transfer even simpler. No longer you have to wait weeks before you initial backup completes. Hopefully this will make the tools like CloudBerry Backup for S3 even more appealing.http://cloudberrydrive.com

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211454 Fri, 22 May 2009 16:00:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211454 [...] Broadband so slow that Amazon is letting you mail it your data — More here. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211453 Fri, 22 May 2009 15:59:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211453 [...] so slow that Amazon is letting you mail it your data — More here. Tags: co:amazon, co:Android, co:Apple, co:huffington post, co:kaixin001.com, co:nbc Digg [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/amazons-new-service-goes-postal-over-slow-broadband/#comment-211452 Fri, 22 May 2009 15:08:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50960#comment-211452 [...] 10Mbps connection would take 13 days. So the company is working around that issue by letting people submit data to Amazon Web Services via US Mail. Users send in a storage device with data they want added to the cloud, and when Amazon [...]

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