Business 2.0 about private file sharing
11/04 2006 | 12:49 PM
Posted by: Janko Roettgers
This is a good weekend read: Business 2.0 editor Eric Schonfield reports about privat P2P offerings like Allpeers and Pando. Schonfield focuses heavily on the business side, but somehow fails to mention the fact that P2P architecture is much cheaper than a server-based approach.
From the article:
"Every day YouSendIt, for instance, transfers more than 30 terabytes of files among its members - the equivalent of the contents of about 1,000 laptop computers. MediaMax, which is operated by a San Diego company called Streamload, sends 3 million files among its members daily and stores 650 terabytes of their data."
From the article:
"Every day YouSendIt, for instance, transfers more than 30 terabytes of files among its members - the equivalent of the contents of about 1,000 laptop computers. MediaMax, which is operated by a San Diego company called Streamload, sends 3 million files among its members daily and stores 650 terabytes of their data."
Tags: p2p, business2.0, ericschonfiled, schonfield, pando, mediamax, streamload, yousendit, allpeers, zapr, myfabrik, glide
Louis Choquel wrote:
Also note that my company, zSlide, is entering the field with a similar service for large e-mail attachments: http://www.podmailing.com
We have 2 specificities:
1- The infrastructure we use to store and relay the files is actually based on Amazon's S3 system (simple storage service - http://s3.amazonaws.com/)
Because we don't have to invest in a heavy infrastructure of our own we can focus on service value and user experience.
Amazon posted about it here:
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/...
- You can get an invitation to enter the beta-test of Podmail Express here:
http://www.podmailing.com/i...
- And more instructions here:
http://www.podmailing.com/e...
2- Like AllPeers and Pando we use BitTorrent technology under the hood. The difference is that we remain standard based and compatible with BitTorrent. Our software Podmailer can be used to download regular torrents. And when you send a "Podmail Express" relayed by Amazon S3, it can be downloaded with any standard BitTorrent client.
As we use open standards, other networks can be interoperable wih ours. We believe this is a key to success so we will propose to interconnect with other BitTorrent-powered networks.
Louis.