Cloud Data Only Works If You Trust The Cloud
Your data may be in the cloud, but can you safely export it? As another services closes, isn’t it time you should check?
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When storage becomes as cheap as chips
If you’re looking for signs that there’s another revolution on the way, then the price of storage is an interesting figure. In the last twelve months the cost of one gigabyte of data has dropped from a dollar to fifteen cents, according to interviews conducted by Robert Scoble: Another guy who is still stealth told me his company will build something like a shoebox with eight petabytes of solid state memory. When I worked at Microsoft it took a semi trailer stuffed with hard drives to get to six petabytes. The times they are a changin’
Continue readingThis, Jen, is the internet
Ubuntu’s cloud in a box. It’s around £7,500, and a grown up version of a PirateBox. Part of me wonders if major event press rooms (such as Eurovision) should all have one of these and load it up with resources for press members as a matter of course. Both options are a bit pricier than the original…
Continue readingThe cloud doesn’t really work with Virgin
A simple reason why local copies of music, editors on your desktop, and offline spreadsheets are all really good ideas for me right now. Virgin Media is down.
Continue readingThe Civil Service takes to The Cloud
So the UK Government are going to use Huddle to have official documents available in the cloud? Hopefully everyone will get a 4 digit pin code to access their documents and the tabloid press, being on their best behaviour, will promise not to try and get access.
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