Small but perfectly formed: Dailymotion's object storage odyssey • The Register

Small but perfectly formed: Dailymotion's object storage odyssey • The Register: "At the time, system architect Matthieu Blumberg dit Fleurmont said: "As a video content delivery website, our requirements focus on 24/7 availability." It came across Isilon and its use by MySpace. It tried out a 10-node IQ 6000 cluster and went on to a 24-node system, and liking the SmartConnect integrated load-balancer. The total storage pool amounted to 285TB."

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