The Cloud

[Joseph W. bourke]

I hear you loud and clear, Kim. I did a recent project for a company in the Central African Republic. We set everything up for them to make Skype calls to me (first warning – no video on Skype calls, not enough bandwidth).

I let them know that I had a 50GB Dropbox account, so there would be no problem sending approvals files, and then final delivery. As it turned out, the approvals files (at 640 x 360) sometimes took four to six hours to download (they only have dialup in Bangui), and sometimes they didn’t go through at all on the first shot, when there were interruptions in service. I ended up sending the entire final delivery package via FedEx on a LaCie 500GB tough drive. It took about six days, about the same amount of time it would have taken downloading from Dropbox. Oh well. Live and learn.

So I guess in our discussions of the Cloud, we should remember that the “Cloud”, as it stands, is totally different depending on where you live.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Kim Krause]

welcome to my world!

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Joseph W. Bourke] “So I guess in our discussions of the Cloud, we should remember that the “Cloud”, as it stands, is totally different depending on where you live.”

Absolutely. It always comes down to bandwidth.