file transfer and storage

[nycgeek]

With the increased file sizes, distributed work centers and other collateral effects of file based workflows, I was curious how folks are handling moving stuff around, and storing the not so urgent stuff. I put up a quick and dirty survey on survey monkey if you have the time. I’ll let it set for a few weeks and post results back here. Of course you can blow of the survey and just rant here ; )

link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DFYXYJB

Cheers

[Anonymous]

This survey looks a much more developed and refined market research study than a “quick and dirty survey” someone put together because they were ‘curious.’ Is there more to this survey than just one person’s curiosity?

I did a Google search on your name and came across a company called Attend, which bills itself as “Cloud Services for Media Professionals” and has a Michael Bittle as COO. Are you surveying people about how they manage “Big Media” files to assist Attend’s marketing and product development efforts?

Douglas

[Anonymous]

Douglas,

Last question first, yes I am trying to get some information for Attend, but I tried to keep the questions vendor agnostic and am returning the findings to this forum (which I’m assuming includes potential competitors). It’s more about a quick pulse of users than an market research study. The nice thing about surveymonkey is that it makes my silly ass questions look really polished.

As to more than one person’s curiosity, well I hope it extends to this group which is why I said I’d post back to the list. But, yes, there are three full time people at Attend. The beauty of cloud computing is you can manage a hell of a log of infrastructure and scale with not a lot of people.

I hope you don’t take offense to someone starting a business and asking potential users about how they solve day to day problems. Reading, participating in forums is, in my view, the best way for users and suppliers to communicate true knowledge rather than a canned sales pitch by some dweeb in a suit. I’ve spent more than 15 years as a Post Production Geek and always found the artists had a better sense of what needed to be done (and how) than most manufacturers/suppliers. So I’m coming to the source.

Thanks for caring enough to dig in.

Cheers

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the info, and I applaud your initiative. There seemed to be a disconnect between the nature of the request and the information being asked for. I guess the other side of the canned sales dweeb is the formal blind survey. 😉 No offense taken.

Sounds like you are more interested in the dialog and understanding what folks have experienced than the quantitative results. You might also try posts asking specific questions as a way to foster that dialog. I’d suggest providing the same sort of background you just wrote here. I know I appreciate that type of transparency.

Good luck!

d

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