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To: Stormweaver who wrote (21700)	10/23/1999 3:15:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

www.tpc.org isn't responding. Guess what they run: netcraft.com

To: Stormweaver who wrote (21700)	10/23/1999 9:53:00 PM
From: Robert	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I agree with you that data should be distributed but I suspect that it will take time for people to realise that what they do with computing power can also apply to storage. The problem is that most storage paradigms follow the same computing paradigm they support, and for the past few decades the dominant paradigms have been central storage either via mainframes or pcs. Networked storage until recently had significant latency problems due to the network but the cost of IP traffic is coming down so fast that distributed data makes more sense (comparing T3 speeds vs. 10BaseT for example.) Once network speeds approach board latencies truly networked distributed storage becomes more economical, until then large central databases will attempt to optimise for quick access locally and then to return the results.