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There's the hard way, and also the easy way, to run your own NAS. | Whether for photos, media, documents, backups, or other purposes, most people use some kind of network or cloud storage. While public cloud storage ...
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DigitalOcean has been busy in 2017 launching a handful of new services. For people who just want to run simple virtual machines, those developments are nice, but perhaps not terribly relevant. Today, however, DigitalOcean has ...
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This week, yet another product has shifted into the cloud. Adobe announced at their MAX 2017 conference a new cloud product, Lightroom Creative Cloud (CC). Oh wait, it’s not the Lightroom CC you might already know and use. ...
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I recently visited AWS HackDay 2017 at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) office in Singapore. This is the third year the competition has run, and this time there were 22 teams competing to build projects relating to IoT, analytics ...
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It’s very annoying when something that has worked all the time should suddenly break down when you upgrade a related thing. In this case, ownCloud was upgraded to version 8.1 recently, the updates being automatically ...
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I’ve started to run my own private cloud storage service. It’s fronted by ownCloud, and the storage is backed by Btrfs across three hard disk drives. They run off a CentOS 7 home server. This has been something ...
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We use cloud based services for so many things these days. Storage, for example, is one of them. Popular names that come to mind include Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive. You probably use some or even all of them. I use them ...
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A trending news topic right now is about the possible hack of celebrity iCloud accounts. This brings me to one of my pet topics. How much of the cloud should you (and me) trust? You see, there are many great benefits with using ...
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Everyone wants to sell services now. Software companies that were once shipping boxed software now prefer to sell you a cloud subscription service. While at one time you could “own” a boxed software package, or at ...
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We run some storage pods that are built based on BackBlaze design. Our latest build is a chassis containing 45 pieces of 3TB drives, giving us a total raw disk capacity of 135TB. It’s a nice system that provides plenty of ...
