21st
2007
Bandwagon Deconstructed III: Storage platform agnostic
Ever since the launch of the Mosaic browser (approaching its 14th anniversary), users have become more sophisticated and demanding, resulting in an unprecedented period of product innovation specially for the Internet consumer.
With user-generated content, our digital bits (photos, music, etc.), multiple devices, more broadband to the home (some will complain it’s not fast enough, I’m one of them) and cheaper hard drives, this convergence has started a mini evolution/innovation in backup/restore and sync services.
There has never been a time when we have more digital stuff spread over our work computer, home computer, mobile phone, laptop, web sites, etc. Our target audience, music geeks, share a common problem with their growing digital collections of music, videos & tv shows, mainly backing up their various libraries to their own storage cloud and being able to restore to multiple machines, all painlessly and hassle-free.
Bandwagon was built for this very purpose and as such we support S3 (REST API) and ftp with the intention of supporting other storage clouds that use different transport protocols.
Most music geeks already have an S3 account and/or a web hosting account. By supporting S3 and ftp, our customers will be able to choose which storage platform they want to use without the need for a separate solution.
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft will be offering some form of online storage for mass consumption sooner or later. By building Bandwagon to support all these storage clouds, the customer, as the cliche goes, wins.
We are tempted to build Bandwagon with Gmail support using libgmail. If people are interested in this, let us know. That’s 2GB+ of free storage :)