[144143] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sat Sep 3 10:39:39 2011
To: Skeeve Stevens <Skeeve@eintellego.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:20:13 -0000."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:38:08 -0400
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:20:13 -0000, Skeeve Stevens said:
> My guess is that 99% of consumer internet access is Asymmetrical (DSL, Cable,
> wireless, etc) and iCloud when launched will 'upload' obscene amounts of
> gigs of music, tv, backups, email, photos, documents/data and so on to their
> idata centres.
This is probably not goind to be any harder on your network that BitTorrent
and friends.
> From what I can see there are some key issues:
You missed the *really* key issue.
The more people store data in the cloud, the more irate people are going to be
calling your help desk if you have an outage. We've already seen a few news
stories where a cloud service has whoopsied and lost data.
(And yes, I know that technically, the fact that Joe Sixpack made a poor choice
of backup/storage strategies doesn't impose added duties on you. But your help
desk is going to have a hard time explaining that to a pissed-off Joe)
Am I the only one who thinks iCloud style services plus a Cogent peering
dispute is a likely "perfect storm" scenario? ;)
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