A question about digital photos from: Qurious:
How do online digital photo companies store these huge number of photos?

Choosen answer:
Online digital photo companies like shutterfly, snapfish, etc. allows users to upload as many photos as the users want and they store all these photos online for ever.. how do these companies store all these photos? What kind of hardware, software they use? What kind of investment is required for something like that?

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Photo sharing site Flickr has launched AN Automaton app for uploading, browsing and processing imagery. The image processing – which allows the application of ten filters and effects – is ane of a number of features not included in the equivalent iOS app. These features put it squarely into competition with the popular, iOS-only ‘Instagram’ processing and sharing provision. Flickr says AN iOS version will follow ‘in the coming months.’

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When I scheduled my photo fall to Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks nearly a year in advance, my plan was to shoot some landscape and life images. With Canon's Canon EF 500mm f/4 L IS II USM Lens and Canon EF 600mm f/4 L IS II USM Lense scheduled to arrive before my trip, I tactical to thieve one of these long lenses with me.
 
The arrival of these lenses was of track delayed by the tragedy in Japan, so I decided to hold both the Canon EF 300mm f/2.8 L IS II USM Lens and the Prescript EF 400mm f/2.8 L IS II USM Lens with Maine – along with both Canon Extender IIIs. Carrying these large lenses along next to a full vista kit including three Canon Eos 1Ds Mark III bodies (and a small telephoto zoom lens) onto an RJA (Regional Jet Aircraft) is of track a challenge.
 
To meet this challenge, I packed the two topnotch telephoto lenses into my Lowepro Pro Trekker 400 AW Camera Backpack using a creative padded screen layout. I squeezed two 1Ds THREE bodies into the pack along with a variety of other supplies including 5 spare batteries, filters, memory card game … This multitude was my “carry-on” – and I know from previous trips that it fits under the aisle seat of an RJA.
 
This meant that my “personal item” was going to have to carry many lenses and the 3rd camera unit. Think Tank Photo if me beside what they thought was their large available “personal item” -qualifying bag – the Think Tank Photo Urban Disguise 60 V2.0.
 
The Urban Disguise 60 V2.0 proved to be the right choice. I loaded my laptop, 3 mid-sized lenses, a 70-300 L, an EOS 1Ds CARDINAL and many other items including a pair of portable backup drives into it. It tightly nimble into the RJA overhead compartment. Note that filling the middle section of this bag and adding bodies in the front pouch makes this bag too large to trained into the overhead compartment of the RJA I was on top of (4 seats wide).
 
I packed some additional (backup) lenses into my checked case on with a pair of tripods (you can sometimes nearly double the net from a great sunrise or sunset beside two cameras set) and a monopod. I was carrying about 70 lbs through the airport (yes, I belive that was over the weight limit). Carrying 70 lbs finished airports is of course not fun – especially when I had to hurry 89 gates to catch a connection in Denver. But, these bags worked out very well.
 
Within hindsight, I would have left the 300 II and 400 TWO at home. The targets I found for these lenses weren’t within fair carrying distance – most were 4-5 miles up into the trails. I carried the 70-300 L along with my 24-105 L on separate bodies until my own body could not cart the weight of both bodies any longer. The Rule EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens on a 1Ds III once again proved to be my go-to combination. Yes, there were times when I could have used wider and longest lenses, but with nearly 50 miles of hiking up into mountains on my schedule, panoramas and cropping were the options I electoral for much of this trip.