Cloud Storage

Today, I saw a small demo of S*Plex3 Cloud Storage Service by SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation.
Their press release published on May 12, 2009 can be found here, but it's only in Japanese. :(

At first, I thought it's an yet another Google File System clone, and indeed their architecture is similar to GFS. But, they focused on satellite broadcasting data, that is, streaming data. Thus, S*Plex3 seems to have achieved a good resilience for multiple faults.

The demo system which I saw seems to consist of a 90 nodes clustered file server and a video access client. The video data is divided into many chunks and stored in the cluster redundantly.

I was impressed seeing that the video play was not affected even 1/4 of the 90 nodes file server were down by unpluging their LAN cables.

I'm wondering why they do not publish the press release in English to all over the world...