Great domain of course. But I still don't find cloud storage to be that promising at all. My flash drive offers the same benefits and all I need is a usb port to access my files on any computer around the world. IMO all the promises of storing your files in a CLOUD is overrated.
Comparing iCloud.com to Cloud.com as competitors like some are doing is laughable. There are a lot of innovations in the storage space though. One of the bleeding edge technologies is replacing large scale relational databases with huge in-memory-databases - allegedly blazing fast, highly recoverable and will change data processing.
What CloudStack offers is far greater than storage. They are one of the few companies that are actually venturing into a true "cloud" platform vs just pure marketing. They are managing shared virtualization, and on-demand and a utility based platform that targets public, private and hybrid cloud platforms. (I think, I can't say I've done too much investigation)
I am skeptical about some of the claims I see, however. I've worked very talented individuals who struggled for months with just how to correctly accumulate and attribute CPU usage to a client in a utility computing environment (we're talking OS / Hardware level guys) and with Virtualization on top it's almost impossible to determine usage with a great deal of accuracy, imho) and this is just a SMALL part of what they are offering, almost as a sidebar.
It's almost ironic that I come here and bitch about the lack of "real cloud" offerings and then in the news comes one of the few technology groups actually truly in that space!
Move over Apple - you've just been BUMPED!
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I prefer the idea of having Linux (or something) and all my files on USB and being able to plug into terminals.. so I don't disagree
Need better hardware abstraction still for peripherals
Pretty sure that's what h4x0r5 do as well. Pop it in, set something loose, walk away.. no one has a clue who did it and the trail of evidence is about zero.