Posts by common-sense-prevails

Dell makes $1bn bet that IoT at the edge can kill cloud computing takeover

totally bogus

You don't need anyone wiser to tell you that this is a totally bogus example.

A deer jumping out in front of any "automated" vehicle is simply an obstacle and handled in real-time by the cars local autonomous systems.

The same applies to a baby carriage (pram) rolling down the road in front of the car.

The only communication involved would be to let the vehicle(s) behind you know you're going to perform and emergency stop - and send a corresponding message to the opposite traffic about to enter the "problem" zone. All that is likely to be direct vehicle <-> vehicle communication - nothing to do with Mr Dells bogus IOT edge.

AWS already has IOT edge connections and applications and these are likely to continue to be advanced/improved as future use-cases emerge. Well ahead of any Dell can buy or build. Dell was late (some would say a "no-show") to the cloud and the same is true of IOT or "edge" services.

Has anyone at Dell read up on AWS Lambda? LOL.

Is this April 1st ??

Intel: Joule's burned, Edison switched off, and Galileo – Galileo is no more

three problems

There are only 3 problems with all the Intel IOT related kit. It is:

a) over-priced

b) too expensive

c) costs too much

I really wanted to buy a Joule or two, but .......... :(

You've got to understand your market

Five reasons why you'll take your storage to the cloud

All you're spreading here is FUD.

You buy a tape robot for (what ?) $50k

you buy hundreds of tapes for (what?) $70/tape

you have full-time "tape minder" and a part-time "tape manager"

Oh OK - now how much (per month) did you say you're paying for your in-house solution? ;-)

Amortize the above costs over (let's be generous) 5 years and then replace the hardware etc.

Now - how much per month are you paying?

How many of those tapes have the data you really need? (Hint: not many...!!)

So now you do the AWS S3 "thing" and you keep an eye of what data you have stored and how often its backed up/refreshed and you (of course) use the "delete after" facility for logs etc. that have no value after N days. And you are motivated - because you know you pay-as-you-go. And you pay ... .how much? Hint: a HELL-OFA-LOT *less* than the in-house solution.

Employees be happy - because the cost of the in-house solution is worth several full-employee salaries ... and maybe, just maybe .. you get to keep your job rather than see the $s spend on a new tape robot.

Data security?

C'mon - you encrypt anything you don't want anyone else to see.

Just like you do with your own, in-house data where the authorities can come on-site and snag *all* your tapes.

Like I said: Total FUD.

Even a back-of-the-napkin cost analysis shows that S3 makes total sense.

Whoops - have to go. The tape robot just took a dump and we don't know how many backup jobs that we thought were done are actually retrievable. Crap the cleaning folks just dropped the tape we need into the trash - oh - and it looks like someone has been jamming the data center door open because he/she left their access card @home....