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To: La Traguhs who wrote (6709)	6/24/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 9256

LT, re >I'm one who needs to have my "stuff" close to me.< Ditto. Not to speak of much faster access to my own storage device. Besides, some personal data, like a home contents inventory, should be stored on removable media in a safe deposit box. Gottfried

To: La Traguhs who wrote (6709)	6/24/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: Robert Douglas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9256

I continually hear the argument that the bulk of consumer storage will migrate to some vast storage vault using the Internet as bandwidth breakthroughs occur. I think this is one of those "logical" conclusions that explode when the light of reality hits them. Sort of like the conclusion reached at the beginning of the computer era that we would have a paperless society. Yeah right. -Robert PS. My mother still holds on to every issue of National Geographic. I defy any of you to convince her to do otherwise.

To: La Traguhs who wrote (6709)	6/24/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: Dale Stempson	Respond to of 9256

>>> I continually hear the argument that the bulk of consumer storage will migrate to some vast storage vault using the Internet as bandwidth breakthroughs occur. I can see some of that but I'm one who needs to have my "stuff" close to me. <<< La Traguhs, I felt the same way at first, however I'm beginning to warm up to the idea, (assuming those bandwidth breakthroughs do occur). There's already plenty of my most sensitive "stuff", including: tax records, social security info, DMV report, medical files, insurance records, investment portfolio, retirement program, credit report and bank accounts that are all currently maintained on computers that are not close to me. Perhaps it's just a matter of getting used to. If we were to be convinced that the personal files we maintain on our PCs would be private, safe and secure at a remote storage location, we might begin to accept the idea as one that is similar to the many that already exist in our lives. Regards - Dale

To: La Traguhs who wrote (6709)	6/24/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: Hal Barnett	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

La Traguhs, Some corporate storage and processing capacity is moving to off site vaults and data centers. Two examples are the growth of Exodus and the start up of StorageNetworks. StorageNetworks ran a full page ad in Sunday's Boston Globe to recruit technical staff. It may be that critical stuff will handled close to home and back ups and higher volume storage needs can by handled more cost-effectively off site. In the corporate version of this, Fibre Channel seems to be important. Regards, ...Hal