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Exactly, I believe there's a clear cycle going on (mainframes - pc - clouds - personal clouds). Fueled by: - moores law (massive compute power and storage at
by jelveh 11y ago
Exactly, I believe there's a clear cycle going on (mainframes - pc - clouds - personal clouds).
Fueled by:
- moores law (massive compute power and storage at cheap prices)
- bandwidths growing
- new tools and devices that create constant streams of data (smartphones, collaborative & filesharing tools etc.)
- commoditization of our most-used online tools (see dropbox)
- a desire to have one integrated point of access/control
and a raising awareness of how important it is to own/control our data (caused in part by constant news coming out on hacks, data breaches and how basically data companies are the new oil companies)
Yes, it's a server :)
ps. I'm one of the founders
- rahimnathwani 11y agoThe article refers to 'private cloud', and you refer to 'personal clouds'. From reading the rest of the article, though, it appears this is a single on-premise server. 'Cloud' usually refers to some abstraction above the physical hardware layer, that allows you to not worry about the fate of a single physical computer. This seems to be the opposite of that. What do you mean by 'cloud'?