To the Cloud…

04-27-12

So I am not going to get into the over use of the term “cloud” in the computing world today but I would like to look at an idea that has been rolling around in my head for the last few days.  With the launch of Google Drive there is yet another major player in the online storage space.  There are a large number of them and The Verge did a nice comparison over here.  That is all well and good and there  are several place online to get free “cloud” storage.  Users can now select the one that they desire to use.  Once you have hit the limit of the free space for a provider what do you do then?  You can select to pay for their services and increase the storage space or select an additional service and go down the same path… but what if there was another solution.  So the idea rolling around in my head would be “cloud storage” aggregation.  The idea is to have one service running on your device (computer/mobile device/…) that you authenticate with several cloud storage providers.  The aggregator then takes care of synchronizing your files up to one or more of your cloud storage provider spread the load and storage.   Based on some rough calculations there is 50+ GB of free online cloud storage.  Just a thought…

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  • Josh Stevens

    Wouldn’t it even be better with some kind of encrypted RAID-5 kind of thing where none of the providers had a complete copy of any of your data, but the loss of any one provider didn’t mean that you lost any data?

  • http://DanLacher.COM Dan Lacher

    Josh, we kicked around that idea as well… in the end it could be done in any matter of methods as long as you could get you data back.  The RAID5 or encrypted method would be a nice addition since then the provider also could not then “read” your content.  It would limit some of the features that are offered but it could be built into the aggregation client.