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Delve into the world of WebDAV storage service providers with key insights from Jim Gray's panel talk at VLDB 2001. Learn about file sharing, DASL, SharePoint, WebDAV support, and more. Unravel the business models, client-server dynamics, and internet storage trends in this comprehensive overview.
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Storage Service Providers? Jim Gray Microsoft Research Panel Talk at VLDB 2001
WebDAVhttp://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/http://www.webdav.org/WebDAVhttp://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/http://www.webdav.org/ • Web Data Authoring and Versioning • File Sharing via the Web • DASL: DAV Searching and Locating • Basis for Web file sharing apps • SharePoint™ and other tools • WebDAV redirector in WindowsXP • WebDAV support in Oracle IFS • Products & Free-Ware in MacOS, Linux,… • But, unit isFile(& directory) not Object • Naming • Versioning • Security
x Business Models: x: xSP • ISP: Thin client-fat server • Presentation at client (browser) • application at server • ASP: fat-client fat server • Presentation, context management at client • Business logic and data at server • SSP: fat client thin server • Presentation, business logic, and DBMS at client • File or Disk Blocks at server
iSCSI SSP? • The SAN story on the Internet? • Client does file management • File does disk space management • Client does security • Client does….. • SAN: • not a good idea in a LAN • Terrible security, naming, performance in a WAN • Not likely
File SSP • NAS Story on the Internet • What many are doing. • Scale8, Others • Disaster backup • Archival storage • A good business for WORN data Write-Once Read Never
WORN Business PlanInternet NAS: 9,000% profit margins • Rich customers buy storage for 1,000$/GB from 3-letter companies. • Poor / shrewd companies buy storage for 10$/GB from no-name companies. • Same disks in both boxes!!! • Can receive data over Internet for 1$/GB. • Profit = 1,000$-11$ = 989$. a chance 8,990%profit
Management Cost: 8$/MB/Y ???(== 8 B$ / PB / Y) • Lets see: • 1 Exabyte of disk shipped last year == 1012 MB • So storage management cost (for last years’ disks):8 Trillion $/y == 10 % of world GNP? • Probably not. • My guess <80B$ (including DBMS) =< 8 cents/MB/Y. (total software + labor + DBMS tax).< 3x disk vendor revenue. • 8$/MB/y seems to be a rumor started by the 1$/MB storage vendors.
Free Advice x = W • Become a WSP (web service provider)if you are service oriented. • Not 9,000% profit, but… • It’s the right place to put the architectural line. • Includes being a WebDAV SP.