The presentation we made for Digital Now 2010 can be found here. Below is further detail and links to products and services mentioned in the presentation.

Backing up in the CLOUD

Amazon S3 Services

Amazon S3 provides a highly durable storage infrastructure. Objects are redundantly stored on multiple devices across multiple facilities in an Amazon S3 Region. To help ensure durability, Amazon S3 PUT and COPY operations synchronously store your data across multiple facilities before returning SUCCESS. Once stored, Amazon S3 helps maintain the durability of your objects by quickly detecting and repairing any lost redundancy. Amazon S3 also regularly verifies the integrity of data stored using checksums. If corruption is detected, it is repaired using redundant data. In addition, Amazon S3 calculates checksums on all network traffic to detect corruption of data packets when storing or retrieving data.

Amazon S3 US – only $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
First 5 GB Storage FREE

FREE data uploaded until June 30, 2010! $0.10 per GB of data uploaded thereafter
$0.15 per GB of data downloaded

Jungle Disk for Business – Various Pricing Options
http://www.jungledisk.com/business/

Jungle Disk for Personal- Various Pricing Options
http://www.jungledisk.com/personal/

CloudBerryLab Backup – $29.99
http://cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?id=39

DropBox – $99/year for 50gb
Essential tips for every Dropbox user

http://www.rackspace.com/apps/backup_and_collaboration/

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/007641.html

Are you taking advantage of the new NCOA USPS regulations?

If not, read Johns post from last year’s Digital Now presentation.

Business Intelligence

This year we demonstrated and mentioned a couple of technologies:

• Oracle’s OBIEE platform which is an enterprise solution, more information can be found here
• Microsoft’s ProClarity which we use as a front end to our Data Warehouse, download an evaluation version here
• Microsoft’s free Data Mining Add-in for Excel. Last year we did a presentation on Microsoft’s Data Mining Add-in for Excel and the links for that post are here