Comments on: What Intel Can Teach Google About the Cloud

By: Andy Ben-Dyke

Andy Ben-Dyke — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:58:19 +0000

As an ISV that provides cloud archive services (full disclosure on my part, I work for RainStor) we’ve addressed the problem of shipping large datasets into the cloud through data compression http://tinyurl.com/nyt65a. We provide a client-side VM to compress (40x) and encrypt data before sending it to cloud storage. I’d argue that data compression will become an increasingly important technique for addressing bandwidth issues and fuelling cloud adoption.

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By: Jas

Jas — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:58:10 +0000

I must say, I’m a bit of a techie myself, and quite fascinated with the different technological trends and Moore’s law even if I’m not able to follow everything statistically that closely. Your article sure got me thinking about a few things, and I agree how there can be different ways of leveraging technologies among each other, resulting to a long term end result for the benefit of all, rather than instant fixes most of the time.
Again, neat stuff!

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By: martin king

martin king — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:19:41 +0000

Not sure I would completely agree with this.

Network demand will certainly come from services to the user like video streaming but my experience of cloud computing on network bandwidth is that it actually reduces demand. Whereas client-server type programs would transmit data across the network with cloud computing only browser pages are transmitted – far more efficient. Also – once more data is processed in the cloud then the more it will stay in the cloud – again more efficient.

By: Shah Ullah

Shah Ullah — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:07:54 +0000

Dave, this is a really informative and timely piece, thanks for sharing. For the enterprise, I understand how WAN optimization could do a lot to boost availability of mission-critical and other important apps. But what about consumer? As telcos/MSOs start to see a larger share of their overall traffic coming in the form of IP packets (thanks to the Hulu, xBox Live, and other bandwidth-heavy Internet services) it could really have an affect on the role of QoS for services outside of voice. This is further influenced by the the rise of thin clients, obviously on mobile but also on desktop, and potentially for the living room), there could be an endless number of consumer-facing applications demanding prioritization to the end user as they start to replace their traditional counterparts. Do you see WAN optimization or similar solutions playing a role in helping the end-user experience?