The increase in web and cloud technologies is changing how my brain works. And it’s not just me — neuroscientists have been debating for years whether we’re all having our brains remapped by today’s world of always-on connectivity.
One of the great things about technology (and about life!) is that you never stop learning. Last year when I and a couple of my Ninefold co-founders were doing market research into the emerging cloud market, the ‘Clouderati’ (experts and analysts) told us that although cloud computing was hot, cloud storage was actually the fastest growth area.
It takes 2 hours, 6 minutes and 57 seconds to transfer and upload data over a distance of 80km via pigeon – and no, that isn’t a typo. In 2009, Unlimited IT in South Africa strapped a data card to Winston the carrier pigeon’s leg and sent him on his way to their Durban office in a race against data uploaded at the same time via the local internet service provider.
There are a lot of reasons why we think the Ninefold cloud is special, but one major part that we remain excited about is our cloud storage service - the first of its kind in Australia as a true local alternative to AWS S3.
Information used to vanish unless it was written down. For millions of years, nothing was recorded and all communication was verbal and transient until some canny scribes started pressing notches into wet clay.
