(Another) Win for Open Storage...

Wikipedia is one of the world's most visited web sites (8th in the top 10, in fact), delivering an enormous breadth of content to an audience as vast as the internet. But Wikipedia's evolved to become more than an on-line encyclopedia: they've become one of the world's largest search engines, they're a global source of real-time news, alongisde educational, political and health related content - and one of the world's most valuable brands and media properties. Wikipedia's also a great example of a "redshift" application: a segment of the market that's growing faster than the technology industry's capacity to innovate. Technology companies have to pay special attention to such redshifted segments - not only do they eventually grow the overall market, but their innovation often drives the technology landscape. Broadly speaking, social media, from free news and social networking, to search and content sharing, is doing exactly that - defining new architectures and requirements for radical scale, economics and availability. So I was really pleased that Wikimedia had chosen Sun's Open Storage platforms over proprietary alternatives, to help manage their evolution to rich media - bringing high quality video and time based content to their more than 250,000,000 users globally. That's a big audience waiting to upload - and interact with - high quality content. Like Wikipedia, most of the planet's largest web sit...

Date: November, 26 2008
Url: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/open_storage_wins_at_wikipedia

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