http://flipthemedia.com/index.php/2008/09/is-cloud-computing-a-trap/ A blog about the digital media revolution Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:44:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://flipthemedia.com/index.php/2008/09/is-cloud-computing-a-trap/comment-page-1/#comment-1070 Harry Hayward Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:10:58 +0000 http://flipthemedia.com/?p=1257#comment-1070 Interesting arguments on both sides of this. Thanks for starting the conversation. Rubi. One of the problems I am wrestling with at the university is the weight of our multimedia content - video files take up a lot of server space, and need fast, or at least streaming, servers to give the public access. So, the big questions is - build it or buy it? Pushing a lot of content out to iTunesU puts it on Apple's servers. Launching a channel and pushing it out to YouTube puts it on theirs. 24/7 support, big server farm, but a loss of ownership and control. Interesting arguments for our own content, too. Will consumer products get built with more and more memory and RAM, or will the aggregators get bigger and bigger as our personal machines get smaller? Interesting arguments on both sides of this. Thanks for starting the conversation. Rubi. One of the problems I am wrestling with at the university is the weight of our multimedia content – video files take up a lot of server space, and need fast, or at least streaming, servers to give the public access. So, the big questions is – build it or buy it? Pushing a lot of content out to iTunesU puts it on Apple’s servers. Launching a channel and pushing it out to YouTube puts it on theirs. 24/7 support, big server farm, but a loss of ownership and control. Interesting arguments for our own content, too. Will consumer products get built with more and more memory and RAM, or will the aggregators get bigger and bigger as our personal machines get smaller?

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