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To: Joe Wagner who wrote (3164)	4/24/2001 3:20:13 PM
From: David A. Lethe	Respond to of 4808

Joe: This project provides "a utility infrastructure designed to span the globe and provide continuous access to persistent information. Since this infrastructure is comprised of untrusted servers, data is protected through redundancy and cryptographic techniques. To improve performance, data is allowed to be cached anywhere, anytime. Additionally, monitoring of usage patterns allows adaptation to regional outages and denial of service attacks; monitoring also enhances performance through pro-active movement of data ..." The scope is 10 billion users, and 10 trillion files. ca-CHING! In english, if this pans out, I equate this with a new kind of internet, optimized for data movement. Link to the project is at oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu I-Shadow is one of the internal names for the project, coined by one of the commercial vendors in the industry who is also working on the project. Can't tell you who ... NDA, of course, but it is possible that this is now public information, so you might find more info with careful searches.