10 TB free cloud storage

[gevorg]

I would encrypt before putting anything in the cloud.

 

[Skaendo]

Encryption is going to be a thing of the past:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...l?Post+generic=?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost

 

[gevorg]

If you're encrypting to hide from NSA, you have much bigger problems than quantum computing. Hackers/scammers/etc on the other hand can be avoided with encryption.

 

[Skaendo]

The NSA is not the only ones in the game. Google already has a quantum computer. The biggest snoop in the business.

 

[lxskllr]

Encryption is going to be a thing of the past:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...l?Post+generic=?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost

Everything's gonna be a thing of the past. Their quantum computer is as useful today as my closet time machine. Today, encryption works very well. Next week/year/decade it will be reviewed for effectiveness. Security has never been a set and forget policy; not when it's done correctly anyway.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Office 365 Home $99 per yr for 5 devices.

If you have family of 4 and ever growing pictures, music, movies collections. It is not a good deal? That is $25 per person and I don't have to buy HDs and worth about lost of data.

A lot of universities are giving Office 365 away for free to students. I think M$ lost too much share to Google and is realizing that Office may be a bridge to mobile devices since Word and Excel are better than OpenOffice or other knockoffs. They're going to try to bring more people back to Surface/Windows Phone/and Windows 8-10.

At least their data centers are state side... I still have trouble trusting the cloud, but you can't argue with the cost savings. Most cloud solutions are using a mix of software-based storage and commodity hardware to achieve the "cloud"... They basically throw raid out the window and simply replicate the data on dumb and occasionaly semi-smart arrays. These typically aren't SAN solutions...just JBODs hanging off servers with SAS or infiniband. The only question then is how many controllers do they need per shelf of storage and what core technology are they banking on. Luckily, most people aren't utilizing that kind of space yet....very few people will store more than a few gigs or a few hundred gigs. It takes too much pipe to send/receive that kind of data over the internet quickly.