With global workforces and customers spread across the globe,
organizations need to provide scalable tools for providing massive
amounts of information easily, quickly and securely. However, most of
our partners can't afford, or simply don't want, to build huge data
centers across the world to support this requirement.
This is where
Amazon S3 steps in: it provides a simple Web
services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of
data, at any time, from anywhere on the Web. It gives any developer
access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, and relatively
inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own
global network of Web sites.
MonoX now includes a data provider that
hooks into Amazon S3, allowing users to store their data in the cloud
and not on a database or file server somewhere in house. Best of all,
this functionality is totally transparent to the end user, and site
admins can access it via the familiar file explorer interface that is
identical to the standard GUI. Additionally, power users can develop
their own file providers for other storage services by extending the
FileBrowserContentProvider class and implementing the
IFileContentProvider interface.