We’ve had lots going on around here lately so lets get you up to speed with some quick updates!
First, I’d like to welcome Erika Jolly Brookes as our new VP of Marketing and Sales. Erika is a veteran of the Atlanta technology scene, as an early employee at Mindspring and most recently as VP of Marketing at Earthlink. She is a strong customer advocate and is committed to make our products the best they can be. Please join me in welcoming Erika to the team.
Second, next week our own Mac developer Adam Preble will be speaking at the local Cocoa Heads development group. In his spare time Adam develops iPhone games and will be talking about his experience as an iPhone developer. If you’re in the Atlanta area and interested in iPhone development be sure to check it out! You can also check out Adam’s games on the iTunes store – Shufflepuck and Slingshot (free trial).
Third, I’m pleased to announce that Jungle Disk has been nominated for a CNET Webware 100 award for the second year in a row. We need your vote to win!
Finally, I want to give an update on the status of Cloud Files support for new customers in Jungle Disk. As we previously described, the bug in the first release of Jungle Disk 2.6 which caused excess traffic to the Cloud Files backend allowed the Cloud Files team to identify a number of areas where the system could be better optimized for Jungle Disk users. In a way this was a blessing in disguise, as it may have been many months until there was enough regular traffic to uncover these bottlenecks. Rather than continue to add new users on the system while the team optimized these areas, we decided to hold off adding new users until the changes were complete. Originally we had hoped to re-open signups last week, but they need a few more days to finish deploying the improvements. Baring any unforeseen issues, we are currently planning to allow new Cloud Files customers by the end of this week.
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Mike said,
April 4, 2009 @ 5:39 pm
Does end of the week mean tomorrow (Sunday) or end of next week? Regarding the new users being able to use cloudfiles?
Todd Vierling said,
April 4, 2009 @ 5:42 pm
Well, I may be an unexpectedly good testcase for some of the Cloud Files support … I’ve been backing up a system on Linux via “rsync –inplace -a” (rsync 3.0), with a very large amount of file multiplicity (some 700k files with more than 70% of them less than 2Kbytes but about 10% of them at 8+ MBytes in size), and with Previous Versions for “All Files” enabled (since it’s a rsync-based backup from a remote system rather than a JD backup job). Yes, it’s been running the first backup pass for quite a while, but it’s bound to be exercising quite a bit of the Cloud Files system with a pretty diverse access pattern.
My account is the same as this post’s e-mail address if you’d like to watch my access patterns for clues as to how this sort of upload access affects Cloud Files. The bucket in question is both data- and filename-encrypted, and you can reach me via e-mail for more details if desired.
Jungle Dave said,
April 4, 2009 @ 6:39 pm
End of the upcoming week.
colin henderson said,
April 4, 2009 @ 9:20 pm
This was an easy vote for me. I have been using JD / S3 for over 2 years and am completely satisfied and confident. I just upgraded to Linux 9.04 and realised how much the latest product (2.60c) has simplified set up. Well done and thank you.
Jungle Dave said,
April 8, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
FYI, as of yesterday (4/7) the optimizations have been put in place and Cloud Files online disks can be created for all users.
Greg M. Smith said,
April 8, 2009 @ 1:11 pm
JungleDave: Great thanks!