While I am also very careful about the cloud I am excited about the potential. My main worry is ease of use. For example while I am very impressed with what Lagoa can do. Its totally unusable on our internet speeds.
There needs to be some middle ground found to make them far more practical. Whether its a case of having an option of maybe downloading the assets libraries locally or something else you cannot have an application check back with the server nearly every time you perform an action. If your are going to host something on the cloud that can say be check at start up etc. There are opportunities for example for much better handling of licences. I am sorry there is no reason why we should have to screw around with licence managers (which all tend hate any other license manager) when it totally possible to either have it check based on mac address, IP, or even a login. There are so many things that the cloud could be useful for without having to do everything there. Also I find it very doubtful that companies that tend to deal a lot with brands etc will be happy with their stuff being held in a place that is not under their total control. That being said one of the where having the whole thing in the cloud they can be very useful is in education. For a student to be able to work at home and at school , not worrying about wether they are on the right OS, or using the right version.( Looking at you ADSK ;) would be a massive win. For instructors to be able to collaborate in a meaningful way. again pure awesomeness. I am somewhat caught between Geekish optimism and old timer practicality. Angus On 2013/07/10 12:13 PM, "Eugen Sares" <[email protected]> wrote: >+1 >No offence, but I also don't get too excited about the idea of >my/customers data pending in some unknown place with unknown people >having potential control over it. >Besides, it's risky to rely on a working internet connection all the >time for work. There are too many things that can go wrong, like in all >complex systems. >How about troubleshooting/workarounds if something hangs? And there can >hang a lot in any complex 3d application. >What if you forget to pay your bills? What about being forced for >whatever upgrades? Will you get cut off the chance to continue work? > >This does not mean the Exocortex guys are not idealistic, but you cannot >be sure what will happen in the more distant future, when you have >settled comfy in that system and got dependant on it. > >Cloud is evil... it means total control. Clever business idea for >managers it might sound, but I for my part dislike it. > >My kind of old-schoolish opinion... > > >Am 10.07.2013 11:49, schrieb Tim Leydecker: >> This claraio example pushes me to point out that it would still >> be nice to be sure that every workfile or content stays inside the >> private IP address space at any given time. At all times. >> >> Personally, I simply don´t like the idea of effectively handing over >> the absolute control over my intellectual property to any kind of remote >> or even unknown entity/authority that may have completely divergent >> interests to my own without even needing to state so in advance. >> >> Clouds are happily described as giving you that air of freedom but >> handing over data to a cloud effectively just means handing over your >> data to someone else. >> >> I don´t see why I would want to do that. >> >> It would be nice if Claraio is made to run self-contained in a private >> network >> without any strings attached. >> >> Cheers, >> >> tim >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 10.07.2013 11:32, Rob Wuijster wrote: >>> I think most of us got the email ;-) >>> >>> But all these new (internet based) tools makes it very interesting >>> for what lies ahead. >>> >>> >>> Rob >>> >>> \/-------------\/----------------\/ >>> >>> On 10-7-2013 11:26, Stefan Kubicek wrote: >>>> I'm a bit surprised this hasn't been posted here yet, I hope I'm not >>>> spoiling anything, but post date is 8th of July, so... >>>> http://exocortex.com/blog/introducing_claraio >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. </span></font></td> </tr> </table>
