Comments on: Three Cloud Storage Alternatives

By: Jacky

Jacky — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:05:16 +0000

Why go with cloud storage alternatives when you can go with a great cloud storage and cloud IT service?

The cloud has become a lot more powerful with Cloud Storage and Cloud IT Solution 5.0. It is far more than just storage or backup. Not only you can backup files to the cloud, you can also move your entire file server, FTP server, email server, web server and backup system to the cloud. You can create sub-users and sub-groups; you can set different user roles; share different folders to different users with different permissions. For a small business, Cloud-based storage, backup, sharing and Cloud IT Solution can save you a lot of cost, while offering better, more secure and reliable services that can be accessed from anywhere.

DriveHQ.com is one of the first few companies offering such cloud based services. It is now offering the version 5.0 Cloud Storage and Cloud IT Solution. For more info, please visit: http://www.drivehq.com/. DriveHQ basic service is free.

By: Michael H.G. Schmidt

Michael H.G. Schmidt — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:10:14 +0000

@ Mark: “What are “Fortune 500″ servers?”

I think he means “big” and reliable machines. Maybe these machines are located in a banks datacenter or so.

But most likely its only management bullshit blabla.
They offer *unlimited* backup space for $4.95 a month. Do you think this will work ? Yeah – maybe they store your data like “backblaze” does: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

On the first look nice. But on the second its UGLY. Its not safe – they know *nothing* about storage. Do you really want to backup your precious data on this garbage ? Good luck !

In the meantime i will stay with TSM. Its mature and reliant. Sure – its not cheap. But in terms of doing backup cheap means that you dont have real backup at all. And thats the truth. Sorry folks.

Regards,

Michael H.G. Schmidt

By: darwyn4

darwyn4 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:13:18 +0000

i think humyo.com is the best :)
10 GB of free storage!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:04:22 +0000

I personally prefer Wuala to store my files. I like the fact that they encrypt files on my computer so that I'm really still the owner and they can't access all my data. Furthermore I appreciate the option to trade my local storage against online storage.

By: p_15_s

p_15_s — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:55:28 +0000

I recommend Memopal. Company has changed the selling price, now $49 for 150Gb, less expansive than Fabrik. Memopal is very conveniet. I saved all my files and I’m quiet ’cause they are safe.

By: George Lucas

George Lucas — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:42:53 +0000

Could you guys review free cloud hosting services? Also, need a cloud data hosting product with a good client–could you review cloud clients? thank you

By: Bitnoid

Bitnoid — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:49:47 +0000

For those interested in building and owning their own cloud storage infrastructure you might want to check out a company called Caringo. Very cool clustered storage using commodity server hardware that is self healing and self managing. Very low cost up front and minimal administrative effort. It’s not a service, it’s a product and it enables you to implement the kind of infrastructure some of the cloud providers use.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:01:40 +0000

I’ve been trialing idrive (idrive.com). I rarely see it mentioned in these types of reviews, but it appears to be a more cost effective online storage solution than most of the others.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:23:40 +0000

@ 1 Erin

What are “Fortune 500″ servers?

By: Don Bell

Don Bell — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:42:30 +0000

I’m currently using a startup Cloud storage provider called SMEStorage (www.smestorage.com). They have not officially launched yet but these guys have some cool stuff. Firstly their back-end is Amazon S3 so the storage is secure. Currently you subscribe to their service but they tell me they are soon going to open it up so you can enter your own Amazon S3 keys and pay a $1 a month for their services.

You can do all the usual stuff like upload your files, tag etc. They have a nice File Browser. They also allow file sharing via email in which you can set a deadline for the link to the file to expire which is nice. The killer feature for me is the group sharing functionality in which you can create a group, add users to the group and then share a file with the group or individual users – I use this a lot as a mechanism to keep partners up to date with collateral for my business.

They released an API a while back so you can access all these features via their REST API, and I’m currently testing the beta of a Firefox plug-in that uses this API.

Lastly I’m beta testing their IPhone version which I have to say is pretty amazing. This is at http://thesmespace.com/smeutils/msmestorage/.

As far as I know these guys have not launched yet and there is little documentation but they have put a lot thought into what they are doing and I thought they deserved a mention as they are taking the cloud services and layering useful functionality on top of it.