Comments on: What comes after the cloud? How about the fog?

By: donjoe

donjoe — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:48:22 +0000

So Freenet without the security, then.

By: Haytham El Mardi

Haytham El Mardi — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:25:03 +0000

The question is why we need Sumform to store data on their cloud SERVERS if we can use the same model collectively and have reciprocal agreements between business partners. I mean if we have companies A and B then company A can upload data to B and reciprocally B will upload A and that is that. If the issue is trust then why trust company C?
I mean Symform make sense for transactional information on the run but for old gigantic backups.

By: David

David — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:15:41 +0000

Hi Aaron
The trick is distributed backup. If the data is important, you don’t want the backup saved in the same locale. Then, If a disaster occurs, nothing is lost. The free bit is secondary for people with precious data. And many have lots of open drive space on secondary servers.

This is somewhat like how torrents work in distributed file-sharing. But I’d want to test the system very thoroughly to ensure it’s reliable. Encrypting each packet and storing them randomly adds a lot of points for failure and many simpler backup systems fail in practice.

By: WLGJR

WLGJR — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:38:58 +0000

We all know that information is more important than money.

By: Aaron Wright

Aaron Wright — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:48:24 +0000

So, if I want to store 10 Gb of data in the cloud, I need to allow someone else to store 20 Gb on my computer for it to be free? That seems like a lot of storage space so I can back up my data. This business model is… questionable. Why would I pay for so much storage to back up someone else’s files?

By: hlampert

hlampert — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:49:29 +0000

Love how they totally disregard bandwidth usage and cost considerations.

By: mika69

mika69 — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:40:23 +0000

Per month pricing is not the solution… ask Kim Dotcom