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Well they would not need the cloud otherwise. The cloud concept was created and pushed relentlessly by the IT giants and never responded to popular demand. AWS
by venomsnake 13y ago
Well they would not need the cloud otherwise. The cloud concept was created and pushed relentlessly by the IT giants and never responded to popular demand. AWS being the only exception probably.
/Drops tin foil hat.
- aaronem 13y ago> never responded to popular demand Really? I know lots of folks, within the industry and without, who use cloud backup services like Carbonite and Crashplan precisely because they are so much more convenient than maintaining a physical backup scheme, however simple. I veer in the other direction, because I trust USB HDDs in my physical possession more than I trust Crashplan or Carbonite not to screw up, but the argument from convenience is not an unreasonable one, and I'd say it certainly does count as the cloud "respond[ing] to popular demand".
- venomsnake 13y agoMy personal remote backup provider (Backblaze) is as cloudy as the FTP. Sending (hopefully) encrypted bytes and retrieving them is not what cloud is for me. What I consider "cloud" is closer to google app engine.
- icebraining 13y agoI trust USB HDDs in my physical possession more than I trust Crashplan or Carbonite not to screw up It's not mutually incompatible: I trust both combined more than I trust each one alone.