On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Jonathan Feldman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm one of the reporters who covers broadband and cloud computing for > InformationWeek magazine (www.informationweek.com), and it's interesting to > me that one of the issues with cloud adoption has to do with the limited > pipe networks available in this country. For example, it's not feasible to > do a massive data load through the networks that are currently available -- > you need to FedEx a hard drive to Amazon. Holy cow, it's SneakerNet for the > 21st Century!
is this a 'this country' bandwidth problem or the problem that moving 10tb of 'corporate data' in a 'secure fashion' from 'office' to 'cloud' really isn't a simple task? and that cutting a DB over at a point in time 'next tuesday!' is far easier done by shipping a point-in-time copy of the DB via sata-drive than 'holy cow copy this over the corp ds3, while we make sure not to kill it for mail/web/etc other corporate normal uses' ? The broadband plan stuff mostly covers consumers, not enterprises, most of the (amazon as the example here) cloud folks offer disk-delivery options for businesses. you seem to be comparing apples to oranges, no? -chris
