Imagine getting a call several weeks from now from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo saying hey we know you have a lot of data on your hard-drives and we want to store all of it for you, “for free”. and you don’t even have to send us a hard-drive. Every do some thinking about the storage infrastructure requirements to store all of the worlds data. Think about the power requirements and the cooling needed. What if you had a 10 million hard-drives running in a building and all of the racks to support that. I would think you would want that facility in Alaska some place were it stays cold a significant number of months every year. [Robert Cringley]
