Music streaming may affect IT performance
Tue, 13 Oct 2009
Web-based applications like Spotify can slow down businesses' IT setups, reducing overall performance and potentially impacting upon productivity, it has been claimed.
According to Blue Coat Systems, the amount of data downloaded by such applications can overload IT systems.
Only last week, fixed line communications company ntl:Telewest Business reported how office workers across the country have embraced Spotify as an alternative to listening to the radio or songs that they and their colleagues have downloaded.
However, the firm said that the music streaming service amounts to another hidden application running over their network.
Adding his voice to the debate, Nigel Hawthorn, vice president of EMEA at Blue Coat Systems, said that the likes of Spotify and the BBC iPlayer "don't need many users on a work network to cause problems for business applications".
He explained that watching the iPlayer for 30 minutes could require a 320MB [Megabyte] download, while Spotify is "constantly downloading data, taking up valuable bandwidth".
Mr Hawthorn added: "Without visibility, organisations will remain oblivious to the vulnerabilities that these bandwidth hungry applications might have on their internet gateway or the Wide Area Network."
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