Cheap Online Storage

Zawodny talks about storage solutions moving online and InsideGoogle speculates on conspiracies that Google is investing in boxes that allow petabytes (3.5) to be stored in a 20-40 foot box...with about 5000 Opteron processors inside...

This could lean towards Google capturing the market seeming as they have the technology in place (Google FS) to store data redundantly so that data loss does not occur when systems/hdd/racks crash. Google Base is the start of this in my opinion of getting businesses to store backups and other data online. Imagine at the end of each day you can just send Google a RSS feed of all new transactions and Google would do all the hard work of keeping the data neat and tidy and easily accessible.

Conspiracy Theorists can come out now and play...