http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/08/10/brunch-with-bacon-affordable-terabytes/ Casual Dismissals from Danny O'Brien Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:17:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/08/10/brunch-with-bacon-affordable-terabytes/comment-page-1/#comment-182 zero Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:51:07 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=1021#comment-182 Been following the Edge conversation for a couple of weeks now. It strikes me that there are loads of bandwidth, processing power and drive space on the desktops of college campuses. Unfortunately there seems to be a strong push to centralize systems at universities and sell off many aspects of the system to the "Cloud". Where I'm working now all incoming students will get Gmail or Hotmail accounts. Chat/IM has been recently centralized on proprietary systems with logging. Centralization owns our campus and the Cloud has a strong beach head established but there are small pockets of covert resistance and new ones forming. Keep the home fires burning for us. Been following the Edge conversation for a couple of weeks now. It strikes me that there are loads of bandwidth, processing power and drive space on the desktops of college campuses. Unfortunately there seems to be a strong push to centralize systems at universities and sell off many aspects of the system to the “Cloud”. Where I’m working now all incoming students will get Gmail or Hotmail accounts. Chat/IM has been recently centralized on proprietary systems with logging. Centralization owns our campus and the Cloud has a strong beach head established but there are small pockets of covert resistance and new ones forming. Keep the home fires burning for us.

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