[dba-VS] [AccessD] Visual Studio and source control

[John Colby]

Lol and I'm going to download a 26 petabyte movie over my 60 mb/s phone 
link with a 30 gb data cap....

Should take me oh... a few thousand years and a few billion dollars in data.

In the meantime I built a 16 core server with 96 gb of ram and 12 tb 
raid 12 and run a full on business from it.  6 VMs on a second little 
hex core server with a mere 32 gb of ram.

The fact that something can be done doesn't mean it should be done. Or 
that it makes any damned sense for that matter.  There's not a day goes 
by that new hacks don't surface exposing millions, even billions of 
personal records.  We now have systems in place where every dollar in 
your bank account can be drained from Russia or China, and you will 
never get it back.

 >As for the Cloud there are some things that just can not be done any 
other way.

You got that right.  Ain't technology wonderful?



On 11/29/2015 8:27 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> As for the Cloud there are some things that just can not be done any other way.
>
> Huge files and incredible high processing speed come to mind.
>
> One article, that discussed this comes to mind. In the old days a movie would easily fit on one of two rolls of "Nitrocellulose"...yes, it is as explosive as it sounds. Today that technology is all but gone. Movies are now digitized, are super high resolution, up to 64 frames a second but they take up a lot of drive space...and the media must be absolutely perfect...no data drops, not even a single pixel. Where else would anyone store the complete movie like "Gravity", that is 26 Pentabytes?
>
> Then the new super computers. They use to be something like a single Cray but today a Cloud farm of thousands of interconnected CPUs running as a single computer, running at over 33.86 petaFLOPS (per second).
>
> There is nothing that the Cloud couldn't do when it comes to bigger, faster and more reliable.
>
> This technology is not just limited to big players at extraordinary costs. The prices are continuing coming down, if someone wants to go commercial and any enthusiast (Geek) can set up a small Cloud system in their basement, using off the shelf computers and software.
>
> Jim