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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
@harry
the one half of this marketbuzzwording "cloudstorage" refers to old fashioned fileservers, which if really badly needed can be realized as an @home solution, even with syncing abilities, so there is absolutely no need to put your precious private files on somebody elses machine. This remoteapps thing is as i pointed out an even older idea referring to the mainframe with terminals setup as in the beginning of computing.
This is even more stupid, since i hardly believe an avarage person needs more computing power than can be produced with todays desktop PCs. My experiences on how seldom and under what circumstances I needed as much computing power, at once, that i had to run the boxes over night to master the task shown.
show mw on the contrary any use of a "cloudnet" supercomputer the average user needs when taken into consideration how much computing power his machine produces?
my critics are
the whole "cloudcomputing" thing is: - presenting ancient IT-concepts wrapped in new marketing buzzwords
- completely useless when looking at the ratio on how many power the average user uses and his average computer can produce.
this +the point that the all new shiny clowds cover the shine of your privacy and control over your data... |
If you are that concerned about privacy concerns, then you will have to give up using any kind of credit/debit cards since that information could be accessed by governments, hackers, unscrupulous employees. You can't keep your money in banks for the same reason. But then, even money can be counterfitted. Good heavens, get over your paranoia and luddism. Even the argument that a govenment could access your data is lame because, if they really want it, all they have to do is seize your equipment.
Same as you shouldn't trust your financial dealings to any but the most reputable institutions, one shouldn't trust anyone with their data except the most reputable and reliable companies. Carbonite and Mozy are two affordable companies who have an excellent reputation. They offer a level of backup protection most home systems cannot; near instant, versioned, offsite backups. The data is encrypted so hacking can not access your data. To duplicate the same level of service with your own equipment, you would have to run an incremental backup to your own server or an external hard drive every few minutes, then immediately take a copy of that backup to a safe, offsite location such as a safe deposit box at a bank. It can be done but you would be continuously running to the bank and the equipment investment would be hundreds of times higher than the annual fee for Carbonite or Mozy. And again, one should not put all their eggs (data) in one basket. The minimum would be to have one onsite and one offsite back up.