storage space is no longer an issue

A couple of weeks ago, Amazon announced S3  (Simple Storage Service).  For 15-cents/month you get a gigabyte of online storage.   OK, there's some sub-penny charges for moving data in and out of your private (or public) Giganto Hard Drive in Space -- but the truth is, most people will have incredibly tiny bills from the folks at Amazon. 

So what??

At the simplest - think of it as a 15-cents-a-gig online backup drive.

It could be a backend storage for your homebrew data warehouse offering your customers distributed, reliable access from anywhere and on demand.

ANY application with storage needs - and that's pretty much everything we do - can use something like s3.  (and you can *bet* Google will offer something similar)

check out some comments about the service:

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/03/22.html

http://www.clickz.com/experts/brand/sense/article.php/3595581