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I work in healthcare, sometimes we have to go to places with no internet, and sometimes with no electricity. We gather a lot of HIPAA-protected data. This might be useful for those events.

Sometimes, even when we're in the middle of a big city, there's still no secure or reliable internet connection at the location we've been given, so this might be good for those cases, too.

I'm not on the infrastructure side of things, so I can't say for sure. But I've already forwarded the page to our mobile IT team to make sure they've heard about it.

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They might also be good for television and movie production. In the early part of this century, rushes were sent from remote filming locations to the studios loaded onto iPods. With everything being 4K and higher now, this might be useful to move those rushes to a cloud location where they can be accessed by multiple people who need to see them in multiple cities.




Lord of the Rings was almost stolen this way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndge8WlM9q8




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