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  • Tartanyak
    Tartanyak Posts: 1,538
    The processing isn't really the problem. It's the amount of data you have to transfer.

    Take google's location services for example - a good cloud service. From a device you collate GPS, radio tower, net address and anything else that could help figure out where you are. That compresses down to quite a small amount of data. Send that off to the magic cloudy wonder. Cloudy McCloud (Clan McCloud) then used its big pile of processors, big fat internet pipes and huge amounts of data (that all needs to be updated regularly) to figure out where you are and send back a little long/lat info. Very little data transfer between client and server.
  • montevideoguy
    montevideoguy Posts: 2,271
    Surely the answer for business (in terms of doing more heavy stuff) was always going to be remote desktopping? You already have some companies doing this already with people having thin clients that connect to the meat and potatoes server in work (citrix if I mind right?).

    For home users, there is more point to it but only if you're in a place that supports a decent speed (i.e. not Uruguay). Also, when you consider the costs of buying physical storage devices, I don't really see the point in taking the risk of storing it elsewhere
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Cloud storage is a handy backup for many people. It also adds the offsite element - so many people have their external USB drive full of backups sat in the same room as their PC. To be honest if the data is important the backup should not be in your house.

    I have my backup NAS located in my garage - connected via powerline adaptor.
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  • t0pc4t
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    I keep meaning to get a NAS but I'm just too damn lazy.
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  • chedabob
    chedabob Posts: 1,133
    Tom Howard wrote:
    chedabob wrote:
    "The Cloud" is some wifi crap that O2 do. It's like BT Openzone, but cack.

    More research needed on your part my friend...

    http://www.thecloud.net/

    O2 offer it if you buy their iPhone Data Bundle.
  • tom_howard
    tom_howard Posts: 789
    fair enough, but when people refer to the cloud, this is what they mean 99% of the time.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
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  • Anonymous
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    Tom Howard, I think that's just geeks. Most poeple think of this...
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  • Anonymous
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    edited July 2011
    How te hell did that double-post? :?
  • tom_howard
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    :oops: touche...
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  • montevideoguy
    montevideoguy Posts: 2,271
    Needs more cloud

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  • tom_howard
    tom_howard Posts: 789
    some people arent fans of cloud...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abFJuqp867g

    thanks to Nicklouse for the link :)
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  • mpatts
    mpatts Posts: 1,010
    t0pc4t said:

    latest IT fad isn't it, good for some stuff, we keep our spreadsheets on google docs as we can access them from multiple locations and it's convenient


    for companies, seems to me that relatively low processing load stuff works fine in the cloud but if you're doing heavier weight stuff like data integration it's better to stay on premise.

    What you need is a hybrid cloud strategy.
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  • me-109
    me-109 Posts: 1,915
    edited October 2020
    Connor McCloud? Duncan McCloud? Someone already used my Clan McCloud line I thought of halfway through page 1. VLAN McCloud?

    What flavour of cloud are we talking - public, private, hybrid, co-lo (so not 'your data on someone else's server)?

    Doing what? SaaS, PaaS, IaaS? Whateveryouwant-as-a-service?

    I've never known an organisation actually quantify their capex or opex savings by a cloud migration. Especially if you factor in the redundancy of the techies no longer required (or the fact you need to retain them for legacy stuff) plus hiring or retraining to Contract Managers for the outsourced elements, plus the additional monitoring that then needs implementing....
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 60,940
    Blimey, 9 year old thread resurrection...
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