Beatzburne aspires to evolve into an exceptionally popular social media website. This will require hardware to support such heavy internet traffic. In Beatzburne's modest and beginning stages less servers will be needed to mediate the flow of traffic. However once Beatzburne launches as a powerhouse media sharing website, more servers will be needed. The Beatzburne team may need to incorporate data centers, which are thousands of computer servers connected through fiber optic cables in its peak of popularity.
The RAM on a computer will not need to be considerably high to have access to Beatzburne because it requires mere internet access. If consumers want their internet experience to be moving rapidly users may look have a better experience on computers with a higher amount of RAM since more RAM means more speed. SGI servers will be a necessity for Beatzburne as it will house all the information of billions of songs, lyrics, videos photos, and blogs being posted onto the website. Concert photographs, streaming videos, and music files take up more memory space than a typical blog or song lyrics do, so more RAM would be required to support this. As more information is being posted onto the website, there will need to be a backup of all user info being stored. In order to have an updated, modern looking page, professional photography and video editing programs will be needed to keep the site looking fresh. Beatzburne will be using the best graphic design systems to date by having access to Adobe Photoshop. The Creative Suite 5.5 Design System issued by Adobe will be used to edit concert images, band interviews, band photo shoots, and used to advertise the website in an attractive, refreshing image. The Creative Suite 5.5 also has access to interactive programs that will attract user attention as well. Another editing software that Beatzburne employees will be tinkering with to advertise, as well as cater, to potential and existing users is Final Cut Pro X. This program will be used to edit concert footage, make montages of interviews between bands, and also music videos.
The Huffington Post reported on Thursday in its article, Facebook Music in Ticker: Listen with your Friends that "Facebook has partnered with streaming services like Spotify and Rdio to let users discover new song as their friends are listening to them." This would offer Beatzburne a great deal of competition, especially considering that Facebook has been deemed the most visited website on the Internet. However, this music feature will be displayed on Facebook's much disputed ticker device. The ticker has been attacked by Facebook users everywhere saying that it breaks a law of privacy by updating status's each second. The Huffington Post explains that "If a friend plays 'Titanium' by David Guetta on spotify, you'll see that update in your ticker". I feel that this is an invasion of privacy. When a user is not even logged on to Facebook, their Facebook is being updated via a completely different website? That does not sit well with me.
Beatzburne will have a completely secure website that will not display user information without the user's consent.
Huffington Post article link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/facebook-music-ticker-friends_n_976264.html
Interesting post -- you do a nice job tying this back to lecture content. You're absolutely right, accounting for different hardware infrastructure components at various points in the evolution of your business is critical.
ReplyDeleteWhat are other businesses, that also manage large amounts of media content, doing from a hardware perspective?
You touch on competition issues. How would your company distinguish themselves in using hardware more effectively? Why is how you do it, ultimately better than your competition?