Comments on: The Internet Is Not the Computer – Yet http://blogs.weogeo.com/pbissett/2009/10/06/the-internet-is-not-the-computer-yet/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:58:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matt Priour http://blogs.weogeo.com/pbissett/2009/10/06/the-internet-is-not-the-computer-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-517 Matt Priour Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:48:28 +0000 http://blogs.weogeo.com/pbissett/?p=247#comment-517 The key is to make the amount of data transfered as small as possible. Then you can focus on the speed and/or scale of the cloud computing platform. The cloud is not the computer and if you use the exact same paradigm to interact with the cloud as with local on-disk resources then the experience is obviously going to suffer severely as file sizes grow. There is no doubt that cloud computing is the place to invest for the future. It just means that attempting to read entire datasets into local memory from remote resources is not going to work well. The key is to make the amount of data transfered as small as possible. Then you can focus on the speed and/or scale of the cloud computing platform. The cloud is not the computer and if you use the exact same paradigm to interact with the cloud as with local on-disk resources then the experience is obviously going to suffer severely as file sizes grow.

There is no doubt that cloud computing is the place to invest for the future. It just means that attempting to read entire datasets into local memory from remote resources is not going to work well.

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