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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: eDollar.com who wrote (8400)10/6/1996 12:19:00 PM
From: Khang Tran   of 58324
 
It's interesting how people can perceive network storage as a real threat to Iomega or any of the other players in the storage industry.

Simply, network storage for the masses is impractical.

Aside from the fact that online data transfer is slow and bottlenecks can occur, business productivity and flexibility would greatly be hampered.

Here is an example why network storage is impractical:
I work for a large accounting service firm where we bill our clients by the hour, and when our network goes down, our productivity is greatly affected. Besides not being able to access the printers, we cannot access our data files on the servers. Imagine if one of these data storage services' servers went off line.

Second, I spend quite a bit of my time at our client's site. How would I access client files and applications if it was not already loaded on my laptop? Via a telephone connection at 28.8? I don't think my clients want to be billed at $100+/hr for me to tie up his/her phone lines and waiting for information transfer over the phone lines.

I'm not saying that network storage could never replace local storage solutions. I'm just saying that with the current state of technology, it's impractical and to costly in terms of business productivity for the above reasons.
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