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Re: [Digital BW] RE: Photoshop Create Cloud program for photographers

2013-09-07 by Mike Finley

There are a few technical hurdles to overcome before image processing can easily take place in the cloud. The cloud is fine for data storage, since the physical space requirements are not enormous, and the power requirements are not too great. Graphical processing requires powerful CPUs and GPUs to work in reasonable times on todays hardware which consumes a lot of memory and electrical power and generate large amounts of heat. They would also need very fast connections to allow real-time graphical manipulation.

Disk space is cheap and uses little power, fast CPUs, GPUs and RAM are in relative terms expensive and use a lot of power.

On 07/09/2013 10:49, Michael King wrote:
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Ernest,

I can't answer your questions, but I can say that the cloud storage is clearly a trojan horse to future revenue streams and models.
Once we have all our images stored on the cloud, then processing can easily take place in the cloud and we can be charged based on usage and storage rather than a flat fee.

Mike



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