Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoIs the moon too far for your data? IBM's Red Hat is teaming up with Axiom Space to send a data center into spacewww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down12
arrow-up165arrow-down1external-linkIs the moon too far for your data? IBM's Red Hat is teaming up with Axiom Space to send a data center into spacewww.techradar.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 hours agoAnything that needs a lot of data. Same reason you’d download something to your PC instead of streaming it. Also for local processing before upload. If you have a huge data set that compresses well, it’s much better to compress first, then upload to Earth.
Anything that needs a lot of data. Same reason you’d download something to your PC instead of streaming it.
Also for local processing before upload. If you have a huge data set that compresses well, it’s much better to compress first, then upload to Earth.