Cloud services - general discussion, Android and iOS

[ghodzilla5150]

If you are tech savvy, you would know exactly how to secure your data out in "the cloud".

Nobody at Amazon could ever see anything I've stored there. Not unless they lease a couple of supercomputers for the next 1000 years or so.

Please, I don't allow someone else or their servers to maintain MY data or secure MY data. My data is secured on my PC. I trust myself over anyone else.

 

[PSkeptic]

Thats bad reasoning. I had 200 GB worth of music when the 1st iPod only supported 5GB of music. That didn't stop me or many others from buying mp3 players. I don't expect to have all my data with me all the time. I just want an easy way to sync/copy what I need.
When SDcards can have 100MB read/write or approach 300MB of transfers, I will consider a tablet as my primary device.

Now, they're complementary.

Right, now they're complementary... Which means you really have no need to sync everything you own onto every device. You can just copy what you need.

I rather manage my own cloud than let someone else do it. I do remote rsync off-site and I have about 3 backups of everything I do. I even have my own disaster-recovery procedure. Thats just for my personal stuff.

That's fine. I do a hybrid approach. About half is encrypted off-site, and about half is sitting in my personal cloud.

Thats fine if your device can handle the original file w/out transcoding.

If you put a high profile 720p file in a cloud, un-touch, which tablet will play them w/out transcoding.
Same for your phone.

Oh, that's easy: Archos 70 Internet Tablet. Archos is top of the line as far as codec support goes

Please, I don't allow someone else or their servers to maintain MY data or secure MY data. My data is secured on my PC. I trust myself over anyone else.

I don't allow anyone else to maintain or secure my data either. I secure and maintain it myself, but just let someone else hold onto it.

There's not much they can do with a AES256 encrypted blob

 

[mrspeedmaster]

So if I email a coworker and the message never leaves our building, when does the CLOUD enter into the equation? Do YOU understand what cloud computing is?

Lol

People are confusing IMAP mail servers for cloud. IMAP will store all your mail on the server.

 

[clb2196]

Part of the reason is there IS no real definition of "cloud". Your email servers may be physically in your building. Or they could be leased server space through a cloud provider. Generally cloud means shared storage space that on a virtual machine that can be scaled up or down. If you have physical servers in your building that your company runs, they could be a "private cloud" (generally still means there are virtual machines, and ability to easily scale, etc.) but they may not be.

To an end user IMAP could be considered "cloud" under the general concept of the idea, but it's streching it a little.

 

[knivesout]

Lol

People are confusing IMAP mail servers for cloud. IMAP will store all your mail on the server.

"Cloud computing" is a very loose term. It can mean almost anything; I defy anyone to give it one meaning.

IMAP can be considered a form of a cloud. Network storage is a cloud. Instant messaging is in the cloud. Facebook is a cloud.

 

[PSkeptic]

Lol

People are confusing IMAP mail servers for cloud. IMAP will store all your mail on the server.

IMAP is a "cloud concept", especially when server farms come into play.

Part of the reason is there IS no real definition of "cloud". Your email servers may be physically in your building. Or they could be leased server space through a cloud provider. Generally cloud means shared storage space that on a virtual machine that can be scaled up or down. If you have physical servers in your building that your company runs, they could be a "private cloud" (generally still means there are virtual machines, and ability to easily scale, etc.) but they may not be.

To an end user IMAP could be considered "cloud" under the general concept of the idea, but it's streching it a little.

Exactly. The idea of "cloud computing" is very fluid, and more or less just a throwback to mainframe days (Like virtualization).

"Cloud computing" is a very loose term. It can mean almost anything; I defy anyone to give it one meaning.

IMAP can be considered a form of a cloud. Network storage is a cloud. Instant messaging is in the cloud. Facebook is a cloud.

+10000 internets.

 

[EarlyMon]

I wanted to chime in and mention that I really enjoy the GDocs app - I have some important notes and spreadsheets that I access often and I've found that keeping that on Google's servers is far preferable to trying to manage them with an Office work-alike app.