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Steven Wake
April 21, 2010

Kyan intranet gets an iPhone app makeover

The Kyan office has more than it’s fair share of Apple phone users (a company iPhone is one of the perks of working here) — On that basis it made sense to create a version of our homegrown intranet that works on the iPhone when our folk are away from the office. Duties fell to Phil and myself to bring this to fruition.

Phil Balchin
September 12, 2008

Dropbox

We here at Kyan have been using Dropbox (http://getdropbox.com) for a few months now, and recently, it has left it’s beta testing phase, and is now open to the masses. Dropbox is awsome, put really simply, it syncs files between all your computers. That’s it!

That might not sound like much, but believe you me, this service has totally revolutionized how I manage my files. No longer do I have faff around with USB pendrives. No longer do i have to worry about documents I have at work, getting out of date with my files at home. I don’t even have to worry about telling it to do all this, it just sits there, in the background, watching, waiting for me to make a change, then boom, it automatically sends the changes upto the webservice, then instantly, it pushes the changes down to my other computers. Within 5 seconds of making a change on my iMac, the files have been updated on my MacBook.

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Amazon's Simple Storage Solution (S3)

Amazon is undoubtedly one of the web’s most successful online shops, a global brand, with operations all over the world. However, it’s not just selling products anymore.

Just one of the growing pains Amazon has faced over the years was the requirement for a scalable storage infrastructure.

Amazon invested in building their own solution and with their experience and expertise in this area they realised a business opportunity was there to be had and released their Simple Store Solution (S3) to the web industry.

S3 offers unlimited storage with high availability, low latency and low costs.

Recently at Kyan we’ve been increasingly taking advantage of S3 in our projects. Amazon’s storage is redundant and unlimited which makes it perfect for backups.

It also allows businesses that work with large amounts of collateral to concentrate on their core competencies and not waste resources implementing and managing a storage infrastructure.

Amazing really when you think Amazon started back in 1995 as a simple on-line book store.