January 16, 2007

IT is a Collection of Tubes

The IT is not Senator Stevens' Internet, instead it is your data according to Adesso. Liz Gannes told us yesterday about a new product called “Tubes” from Adesso. Tubes allows a group of people to share data file among themselves with different write permissions. In a nutshell, one user establishes a Tube and adds other users to it. The user also associates one or more data files to the Tube (at the time the Tube is created or at any time thereafter. From that moment on all the members belonging to the Tube can access all the associated files. They describe how the product works in a short and informative clip. According to this AP story, each Tube is restricted to 2GB. I thought I understood the technology and the business model. But there is more to it and it is not clear to me what is their operating model.

For example, they claim that this works both offline and online. This means that they store the files locally. If that is the case, why there is a restriction on the file size? They have to store the files in their servers at least temporarily so that members of a Tube can pick them up. If we use Amazon's S3 as a benchmark, the storage cost is small compared to the bandwidth cost. So shouldn't they be placing a cap on that? Is it because, the general public has a better handle on consumed storage rather than consumed bandwidth?

Posted by aswath at January 16, 2007 10:39 PM
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you have explained nice about TUBES

Posted by: raghu ram prasad at January 18, 2007 11:16 AM



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