{"id":447,"date":"2009-05-25T13:47:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T20:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.12sided.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2009-05-25T13:47:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T20:47:46","slug":"plug-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Plug the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting read over the weekend at NY Times. <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/21\/plugging-in-to-the-uses-of-40-computers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Plugging In $40 Computers<\/a> goes into the world of mini-servers about the size of a large DC Charger. With 512 MB Flash, 512 MB RAM, USB and Gigabit Ethernet, these computers have some chops. No video though.<\/p>\n<p>Obvious uses around the house would be file and print servers. It will not be too long before these type of devices are running wi-fi and dedicated applications. Home security, appliance monitoring and digital media management clearly have value. I could see other applications for remote monitoring in hard to reach places such as agriculture, undersea or a volcano as these devices have cell and additional power added.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting article on the Plug that is referenced in the NY Times article and is worth a look: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=hackers-weigh-in-mini-server&#038;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Hackers Weigh In: 8 Big Things to Do with a Mini Server<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enterprise applications could include clustering, intelligent scanning and other logistics applications. Need to think on that some more. The size and price point to many of the arguments raised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgcarr.com\/bigswitch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Carr&#8217;s Big Switch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plugcomputer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">PlugComputer.org<\/a> for the details. Interesting stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting read over the weekend at NY Times. Plugging In $40 Computers goes into the world of mini-servers about the size of a large DC Charger. With 512 MB Flash, 512 MB RAM, USB and Gigabit Ethernet, these computers have some chops. No video though. Obvious uses around the house&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[398,91,401,402],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","tag-cloud","tag-computing","tag-reads","tag-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}