[BBLISA] Cloud services: Amazon versus ...

[Charles Bennett]

On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:43 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> What other cloud services are people using?  
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> I'm asking in general, for general knowledge.  But I'm also asking for
> a specific reason right now.  Up till now, I've been doing my home
> backups by periodically rotating a disk offsite.  I'd like to start
> doing backups over the WAN instead.  I am aware of services such as
> mozy & crashplan, but that's not what I want to use.  I specifically
> want to be able to "zfs receive" on the remote end, which means I want
> to build my own personal virtual solaris/opensolaris server.
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> Amazon is an option.  But I don't want to naively assume it's the best
> option.
> 

Clearly you're not a Comcast customer?

As I see it the establishment of "bandwidth" caps is the death-knell for
emerging cloud storage outfits like Carbonite.


ccb