![]() The cloud and iPhone made me want much more. I have this mini computer in my hand and things as simple as wanting my resume right now, a file with my credit card number, a spreadsheet I wanted to give to a colleague … the old adage of “I will send when I am back at my computer” was becoming annoying. My iPhone on the other hand changed everything. When I was a Blackberry user I didn’t care about what was on my hard drive because the Blackberry couldn’t do anything with it. The short term issue is directly related to the promise that tablets and smart phones have generated. It is an evolution in mid stream and it raises more questions than answers. There is a natural evolution taking place before our very eyes. But the question I ask is … why do we have to be concerned about hard drives? (And btw the Carbonite model really sucks in how it treats folder and file changes but I am not going there.) Their name and their advertising message is very well done. Carbonite does a great job of suggesting that the hard drive failure is a worry you no longer have to be concerned about. The new concept that Bitcasa brings to the table also breaks down the concept of hard drive back up. It eliminates the concept of having to drag your laptop everywhere. I save files to Bitcasa and I can access those files from my iPhone or my work computer. The new concept with Bitcasa is that they replace my hard drive. So they passed the first test of whether they will be around for a bit, at least for me. They recently attracted decent funding too. Bitcasa now has 30 petabytes stored there and that has grown from 5 Pb earlier this year. Basically between then and now I can paraphrase by saying I tried it, tested it, thought about it and here I am.īitcasa uses Amazon as its storage medium. I watch for new things and Bitcasa showed up when it appeared in 2011 and a geeky friend told me about it. This happens to be where I differ from the silicon valley ‘shiny new thing’ addiction. It happens to fall in the definition of “cloud” but as with computers in general I am more concerned with the utility as a tool, and answering the question of whether it is it making my life better. They have built out an infrastructure that I have watched and used now for 7 years. They are limited by the size of your hard drive due to concept of mirroring, without geeky modifications and are fundamentally predicated on personally owned hard drives as the centre of the computing universe.įirst off let me come clean and admit I am a huge Amazon fan. ![]() Ideas like Google Drive, Dropbox and Skydrive are intermediate steps and destined to fail as a model. As you read my ramblings, think cloud, and future storage of your archival of your photos, just to personalise.īitcasa works just like a folder on your computer, but is not limited by the size of your hard drive. And yes there are implications for banks but that’s less important right now. That might explain why it took a while and here follows how I got there and what I was thinking along the way. This is about my experience and thoughts on a concept that is critical to us all (imho) and that remains unique which is why it took me two years.įirst off I have made the leap to fully eliminate use of my hard drive as a medium to store things and now I use Bitcasa. And to be clear this is not an advert from me. I am guessing few will know about Bitcasa.
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