My photos are heading to the Cloud

Roberto Saracco March 27, 2015 Blog 130 Views

I have over 600MB of photos in my computer back home. And I am backing them up on a Time Capsule and on an extern drive. Total: 1.8TB.
More than that, in 13 years I have seen an increasing storage need that has been following the Moore’s law. It is because I am taking more photos, but also because I have changed the cameras over time and what required 300KB for a digital photo 13 years ago (I had a point and shoot Nikon with 1.3Mpixel) now requires 10 MB per photo (I have now a Nikon D600 with 24Mpixels – and yes I know, it is an old model but replacing it with a new one would require some lengthily discussion with my wife…).
Storage cost kept decreasing. The last 3TB hard drive cost me less than 100$. 
Now I read that Amazon has launched an all you can eat (you can store as many photos as you like, no limit) for 11.99$ per year. Now this is what I call a great offer. 
No more backup headache at a price that is lower than the one I would have to pay to keep my photos "in house".
For the time being I will be using Amazon service only as back up but if it works as nicely as they say I will be moving all photos to the(ir) Cloud.
Of course you can access your photos in the cloud from your computers, your tablets and your mobile devices. Provided the connectivity is good you’ll feel you have all your photos always with you.
A pity we don’t have a similar service in Europe….

About Roberto Saracco

Roberto Saracco fell in love with technology and its implications long time ago. His background is in math and computer science. Until April 2017 he led the EIT Digital Italian Node and then was head of the Industrial Doctoral School of EIT Digital up to September 2018. Previously, up to December 2011 he was the Director of the Telecom Italia Future Centre in Venice, looking at the interplay of technology evolution, economics and society. At the turn of the century he led a World Bank-Infodev project to stimulate entrepreneurship in Latin America. He is a senior member of IEEE where he leads the New Initiative Committee and co-chairs the Digital Reality Initiative. He is a member of the IEEE in 2050 Ad Hoc Committee. He teaches a Master course on Technology Forecasting and Market impact at the University of Trento. He has published over 100 papers in journals and magazines and 14 books.

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