Ben Allfree :: Painless Programming

InfiniteBits, the FTP solution for Amazon S3, is now seeking venture capital investors.

There is a lot of research going on right now surrounding how to create massive databases. Google, Amazon, and other companies are introducing web service APIs designed for data storage and retrieval.
Storage is pretty much solved now. Amazon S3 covers that. But efficiently querying and retrieving that data is an amazing challenge. I’m working [...]

Ben will be helping an undisclosed client transfer 1 billion files into Amazon’s S3 storage cloud. Further details are not public at this time.

InfiniteBits, a leading product providing web browser and FTP access to Amazon S3, now has a free membership level.Using the free Basic membership, customers can try the service and temporarily store files for up to 10 days at a time. For more information, see http://www.infinitebits.info/signup.

Ben Allfree was a featured vendor at the recent Amazon Developer Conferences in Palo Alto and San Francisco.InfiniteBits, Ben's web-scale solution providing web and FTP access to Amazon S3, was both a crowd pleaser and a curiosity for developers and customers just learning about Amazon S3.Ben Allfree is a leader in the field of technical [...]

Ben Allfree has announced a new consulting service centered around web-scale and grid computing. The proliferation of services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Nirvanix have created the beginnings of a marketplace that changes the rules of computing. Applications designed for grid architectures are inherently different architectures. They must be distributed, fault-tolerant, and mostly stateless. [...]

Today, we launched a new product site: InfiniteFTP!InfiniteFTP is the FTP server using Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) to store files. Amazon S3 provides infinite storage. Our FTP server provides a standards-based FTP bridge to Amazon's infinite storage. Use any FTP client to transfer files to Amazon S3. Just install InifniteFTP on your computer, then use your favorite FTP client [...]