technologyreview.com— New Web-based services don't just store your data online -- they keep it synchronized across your laptop, desktop, and mobile phone.
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I am wondering when someone decides this isn't funny in every post with the word 'internet' in it. Yeah, we have had a laugh, now it's a bit redundant to post it about 50.000 times on digg because it is so hilarious. It's not funny anymore. Get over it, and start making useful comments again.
The article is interesting but it misses most of the other players in this field. Services like www.mozy.com, www.xdrive.com, www.carbonite.com, www.box.net, and up an comers like www.omnidrive.com. Some services are targetting sharing (eg: photos), others are targetting data (eg: strong encryption, diff backups).Google the above services together to get a full list of services.
Some of those services allow you to encrypt your data before it leaves your computer. Mozy.com for instance can't read your files once you've encrypted them with a strong certificate. It just stores them.
ibjhb: Yea? Gimme a few names and i'll check them out. Thanks!cremate: but thats just it. I want a company that I can ship the hd to and download the content over a website.
sych0Jul 24, 2006
except when they all fail
califormJul 24, 2006
I am wondering when someone decides this isn't funny in every post with the word 'internet' in it. Yeah, we have had a laugh, now it's a bit redundant to post it about 50.000 times on digg because it is so hilarious. It's not funny anymore. Get over it, and start making useful comments again.
thegrimJul 24, 2006
"If you edit a photo or a document and save it on your work PC, for example, these new services will automatically update the online copy..""new" are you kidding me?3 yrs and running <a class="user" href="http://www.apple.com/dotmac/">http://www.apple.com/dotmac/</a>no problems at all
yahoofromJul 24, 2006
oh i feel mozy.
califormJul 24, 2006
posted in the wrong place. oops.
bernarddJul 24, 2006
The article is interesting but it misses most of the other players in this field. Services like www.mozy.com, www.xdrive.com, www.carbonite.com, www.box.net, and up an comers like www.omnidrive.com. Some services are targetting sharing (eg: photos), others are targetting data (eg: strong encryption, diff backups).Google the above services together to get a full list of services.
bernarddJul 24, 2006
Some of those services allow you to encrypt your data before it leaves your computer. Mozy.com for instance can't read your files once you've encrypted them with a strong certificate. It just stores them.
sych0Jul 25, 2006
ibjhb: Yea? Gimme a few names and i'll check them out. Thanks!cremate: but thats just it. I want a company that I can ship the hd to and download the content over a website.
billdayJul 25, 2006
Very interesting, thanks for the link BloodJunkie.I blogged my thoughts about network storage and file sharing, and specifically this article, A3, and FolderShare, earlier this evening. See: <a class="user" href="http://billday.com/2006/07/24/network-storage-and-file-sharing/">http://billday.com/2006/07/24/network-storage-and-file-sharing/</a>Maybe what we really need is a combination of Internet based storage APIs and P2P? %u201CA3 BitTorrent%u201D?