News that Google are helping out academia by enabling very large data swaps at first sounds like a great advancement in disk and network technology.But it isn't.
The system they have launched relies on physically sending (yes, snail mail!) disks to scientists and then copying it when Google get it back, sending on accordingly.
The size of storage is growing significantly, but who is going to tackle the ability to transfer such large volumes of data efficiently and quickly over a network?
Google also claims that they donated USD$1.5m to Open source projects last year.
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