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Submission + - Dropboxes "Magic Pocket" gets them off of Amazon S3

Submitted by Richard_at_work on Monday March 14, 2016 @10:59AM

Richard_at_work writes: Dropbox today announced that it has been working on a "top secret" project called Magic Pocket for the past couple of years to get it off its Amazon S3 addiction, culminating in them moving over 400 petabytes of user data to multiple internal data centres and a custom mass storage hardware and software solution.

Dropboxes relationship with AWS isn't completely over however, as they will continue to use AWS for specific regional data stores where there is a requirement, such as the one currently available in Germany for example.

Submission + - Assange loses latest round in extradition fight (bbc.co.uk)

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Richard_at_work

on Thursday June 14, 2012 @10:29AM

Richard_at_work writes: "After losing his appeal to the UK Supreme Court a couple of weeks ago, Assanges lawyer was given leave to seek a reopening of the case on particular grounds — the UK Supreme Court has now rejected those grounds and upheld its earlier ruling that Assanges should be extradited, which could happen in the next few days."

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