Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Sat Sep 8 10:36:35 CDT 2012
If you looked further into their products, you will find that it falls in line with wikipedias description. Hans “The internet is not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes,” On 7 Sep 2012, at 15:22, "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote: > Pure market hype which a few companies out there are starting to use. > > There is no such thing as a "personal cloud storage device". > > It's either stored on a single pwesonal device or stored "in the cloud". > > With the usual caveats about Wikipedia, this sums it up: > > Cloud storage is:[2] > > made up of many distributed resources, but still acts as one > highly fault tolerant through redundancy and distribution of data > highly durable through the creation of versioned copies > typically eventually consistent with regard to data replicas > > > What Pogoplug and similar offerings from Iomega and Toshiba, to name two that I am aware > of, do is able you to stream data from the storage device over the internet. > > > -- > Stuart > > On 7 Sep 2012 at 10:34, Hans-Christian Andersen wrote: > >> Another benefit is that the pogo plug is a personal cloud storage >> device, so you can access your files on the pogo plug from anywhere in >> the world securely seamlessly as mounted drives or via a web >> interface. >> > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com