Storage Innovation Ahead
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.