> OceanStore is a global persistent data store designed to
> scale to billions of users. It provides a consistent,
> highly-available, and durable storage utility atop an
> infrastructure comprised of untrusted servers.
It's not productized and pretty difficult to discern the project's status BUT they do seem to publish interesting papers / update their site every so often.
Amazon previously kept a semi-official list of all netblocks for EC2 in their forum. They've recently moved to posting updates as official announcements, here is the latest:
http://oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/info/overview.html
It's not productized and pretty difficult to discern the project's status BUT they do seem to publish interesting papers / update their site every so often.