Comments on: Is Your Information Under the Mattress or in the ATM? http://gigaom.com/2008/07/30/information-under-mattress-or-in-atm/ Mon, 20 May 2013 13:19:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Blake http://gigaom.com/2008/07/30/information-under-mattress-or-in-atm/#comment-74767 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:05:19 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3082#comment-74767 A lot of my stuff is in the cloud, but some things are just more convenient to keep local. A lot of desktop apps are more powerful than online apps, and desktop apps can only interact with local files. Online storage for backup is fine, but for primary storage and interaction with my files, I need a local copy in order to use my desktop programs.

Plus, online storage doesn’t provide nearly as much space as what desktop hard drives can hold, and it also takes a lot longer to upload/download files to online storage than to hold them locally.

]]> By: Robert Witham http://gigaom.com/2008/07/30/information-under-mattress-or-in-atm/#comment-74766 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:08:47 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3082#comment-74766 As a public speaker I know that all analogies fail sooner or later – but this one is interesting. I am in the process of converting to remote storage for just about everything. I am somewhere in the middle now with data divided between flash drives/CD-ROM and online storage. I suspect the future is clearly remote though. The benefits are just so immense…

]]> By: flashparry http://gigaom.com/2008/07/30/information-under-mattress-or-in-atm/#comment-74765 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:44:36 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3082#comment-74765 When connectivity is lost though, the analogy falls down for me. If the ATMs fail, and I need money I could potentially get it from elsewhere – money is all the same. If my net connection (or web app) fails, and I don’t have a local copy of the information, I’m stuck. My info is unique. That’s why I think I’ll always want a local backup of online data.

]]> By: Jon Moss http://gigaom.com/2008/07/30/information-under-mattress-or-in-atm/#comment-74764 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:43:41 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3082#comment-74764 Good post and Ernie has made a very good analogy.

I’m stashing stuff under the mattress and using the ATM machine for the moment, although the ATM network is getting used more and more….

Google apps, dropbox, (trying Mozy soon), Gmail, etc etc.

I’m wondering, given a few more years, that I will be totally in the cloud… it could happen.

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