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| Thread ID: 123685 | 2012-03-11 05:44:00 | iCloud | GameJunkie (72) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1264277 | 2012-03-11 06:25:00 | Except in a case of DR, where do you see a large amount of bandwidth being used with iCloud? | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1264278 | 2012-03-11 06:31:00 | In a fashion true to my self I am dismissing the entire cloud concept, Adding an "i" to it isn't enough to make me look into the details, In fact it would only serve to make me want to know even less about it. If 200 million people are all using the internet to access their files or preform syncing of devices (that all reside in the same location) then the bandwidth use will be huge, at a detriment to everyone else using the those avenues of data and to peoples wallets. Perhaps in a decades time they will introduce iStorage, a cunning new plan where you store your data on a local hard drive.... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1264279 | 2012-03-11 06:32:00 | Yeah, clutching at straws a bit there. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1264280 | 2012-03-11 06:34:00 | well, feel free to put me straight, I'm all for being enlightened. | Metla (12) | ||
| 1264281 | 2012-03-11 06:35:00 | Just as well iCloud and I presume the google version does more then store **** | plod (107) | ||
| 1264282 | 2012-03-11 06:40:00 | Because in a lot of cases "the cloud" is a replacement for holding content locally, the content still has to get to a local site somehow, funnily enough usually over the internet. If someone emails me at work it goes to our "private cloud" (yes this is the new and very lame name for data center) then to my computer and also is put on my smart phone via active sync. What difference is it if my phone is downloading the email from an external cloud service or an internal one? I guess you could argue it's two hops external instead of one, but if thats an issue then you have serious infrastructure issues out there, and we don't. Last I checked there was still quite a bit of spare bandwidth for the taking on the southern cross cable. Cloud computing is here to stay, it was the buzz word for every rep at the roadshow I went to a few weeks ago. |
Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1264283 | 2012-03-11 06:46:00 | The difference is cost, there is none over a local server (local cloud my arse, only a ****** would repeat that), That's not the same as accessing a remote location every time you access any data of any sort and it gets streamed to you via your ISP and you get charged for every single mb... Once we have hundreds of millions of people doing this...holy hell..... And again many people aren't gong to understand jack ****, they will be told the cloud is the way to go, they will sign up for the service and they will pay the bills because that's how it is. Getting charged to access their own data, priceless. Email servers are of course a great idea and pre-date all this cloud nonsense. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1264284 | 2012-03-11 06:49:00 | I will have to agree a little with metla, I cannot see a time in the near future wherei will hold all of my movies photos and music in the cloud. That will remain within the house for now. Where I do see immediate benefit is for the smaller things like contacts or photos taken from a phone when away from home. The only mobile device I have at the moment is the iPad and that doesn't leave home | plod (107) | ||
| 1264285 | 2012-03-11 06:55:00 | I read an article a while back about running advanced 3d games on bog standard pile of crap PC's, seems they were going to render the games in the "cloud" and stream them to the PC. 50 fps, 1080p streamed,while the action is dictated in different directions multi times a second by the user........***. Just as stupid as kitchen appliances being "internet connected" or the cell processor running in multiple devices around the house joining together in a super computer cluster. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1264286 | 2012-03-11 06:56:00 | Who says you access the cloud every time you access your data, thats what local cache or local storage is all about. But if I watch a movie I own every 3 years. I'll store it in the cloud. It would be nieve to think infrastructure will stand still while cloud computing becomes a thing. FTTH/VDSL is on the way/already here, cost will become less and less. Hell I think my Vodafone cap has gone from 20 to 60gb in about 2 years at the same cost. |
Alex B (15479) | ||
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