Comments on: Review: The Big Switch http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/09/review-the-big-switch/ Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:14:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Douglas Karr http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/09/review-the-big-switch/#comment-22 Douglas Karr Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:10:15 +0000 http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/09/review-the-big-switch/#comment-22 It actually is coming to reality! If you take a look at companies like Bluelock and their participation in VMWare's vCloud, this isn't a theory anymore, it's a reality! http://www.vmware.com/cloud It actually is coming to reality! If you take a look at companies like Bluelock and their participation in VMWare’s vCloud, this isn’t a theory anymore, it’s a reality!
http://www.vmware.com/cloud

]]> By: Dan http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/09/review-the-big-switch/#comment-21 Dan Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:33:00 +0000 http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/09/review-the-big-switch/#comment-21 It's certainly true that the bottleneck now isn't processing power or memory, but bandwidth. It’s certainly true that the bottleneck now isn’t processing power or memory, but bandwidth.

]]> By: Kevin Cannon http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/09/review-the-big-switch/#comment-20 Kevin Cannon Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:58:04 +0000 http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/09/review-the-big-switch/#comment-20 It's an interesting concept, sure, but I don't buy the argument. People have been talking about dumb terminals for decades and it's never taken off. It seems that as we gain faster internet connections and bigger storage solutions we also gain an appetite for heavier media, which somewhat negates that gain. If we're dealing with massive files then we won't want to handle the delay of sending them over the network. In my opinion, the key thing to make it happen is that network speed needs to eclipse by a dramatic amount, the size of the data we want to manipulate. I'm not sure that's going to happen any time soon. It’s an interesting concept, sure, but I don’t buy the argument. People have been talking about dumb terminals for decades and it’s never taken off. It seems that as we gain faster internet connections and bigger storage solutions we also gain an appetite for heavier media, which somewhat negates that gain. If we’re dealing with massive files then we won’t want to handle the delay of sending them over the network.

In my opinion, the key thing to make it happen is that network speed needs to eclipse by a dramatic amount, the size of the data we want to manipulate.

I’m not sure that’s going to happen any time soon.

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