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Diving Deep on S3 Consistency

All Things Distributed

I recently posted about Amazon S3 and how it’s evolved over the last 15 years since we launched the service in 2006 as “storage for the internet.” ” We built S3 because we knew customers wanted to store backups, videos, and images for applications like e-commerce web sites.

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What You Need To Know About Mary Meeker’s 2017 State of the Internet Report

CTOvision

Her yearly report on the state of the Internet (available at Internet Trends Report and embedded below) provides context relevant to just about every enterprise decision-maker. Growth in Internet connectivity is also slowing. Same with Internet connectivity. Here are key takeaways: Global smartphone growth is slowing.

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Google Has Spent $21 Billion on Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Google has invested more than $21 billion in its Internet infrastructure since the company began building its own custom data centers in 2006. Featured'

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The Internet of Things Will Deliver Big Data's Promise

Social, Agile and Transformation

The Internet of Things Will Deliver Big Datas Promise. The Internet of Things. I have mixed success as a futurist, but Im fairly convinced that the Internet of Things and Machine to Machine technologies will be one of the next waves of major technology advances. 20 Reasons Why the Internet of Things will be Big.

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Boris Johnson Left His Cell Phone Number on the Internet for 15 Years, Screened Our Call :(

Gizmodo

The British gossip site Popbitch used a sophisticated hacking tool called Google and discovered his direct cell line at the bottom of a 2006… Read more. Boris Johnson, British prime minister who’s been passing out his deets like a sloppy rando at last call, has left his personal cell phone number online for the past 15 years.

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Cisco forms VC firm looking to weaponize fledgling technology companies

Network World

Sakoda had been with NEA since 2006 and focused on startup investments in software and Internet companies. [ Now see 7 free network tools you must have. ]. Veteran VC groundbreaker and former general partner at New Enterprise Associates Jon Sakoda will lead Decibel.

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Please do not give billionaire Jack Dorsey money for his tweet

The Verge

You’re probably familiar with the famous tweet, “ just setting up my twttr ”: just setting up my twttr — jack (@jack) March 21, 2006. The tweet will continue to live on the internet for as long as Dorsey, and Twitter the company, choose to keep it up. In other words, an autograph. You’re buying an autograph.

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