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Cloud Storage Comparison: Benchmarking From Afar
First time accepted submitter fasuin writes "Which is the most advanced cloud storage solution? Which is the impact of server locations? What are the benefits of advanced techniques to optimise data transfers? Researchers from Italy and The Netherlands have come out with a set of benchmarks that allowed them to compare Dropbox, CloudDrive, SkyDrive and Google Drive. Which is the best? You can check it by yourself by running the tests on your own if you like." What this kind of benchmarking can't well do, though, is predict which of these cloud storage companies are going to be around in five years, which might be at least as an important a factor.
Apple Google and ms will be around. Worst case Dropbox will be bought out cause you know users. Though they make money so their ipo will be worthless.
"What this kind of benchmarking can't well do, though, is predict which of these cloud storage companies are going to be around in five years, which might be at least as an important a factor. "
Some companies are known to shutdown services that are not popular , not quite easy to predict what services will be around in 5 years
How about measuring how fast the NSA get a copy of all my stuff?
Fuck it. I've been reading Slashdot almost since it started. I'm fed up with this now. Bye.
It's pretty awesome, and pretty cheap on $/Gb/Performance.
I'm biased because I'm the Puppet-Gluster dev.
http://ttboj.wordpress.com/puppet-gluster/
You can run GlusterFS in "cloud" or on your own iron. Because it's not proprietary, the possibilities are endless, and it has a lot of very elegant features.
HTH
Cheers
can't well do?
sudo ./delta_encoding.py -i wlan0 --seed 123134 --bytes 10000 --test 3 -o /tmp/output/ --ftp 1.1.1.1 --port 2121 --user "user_name" --passwd "password" --folder="."
Wait a minute. I'm a manager, and I've been reading a lot of case studies and watching a lot of webcasts about The Cloud. Based on all of this glorious marketing literature, I, as a manager, have absolutely no reason to doubt the safety of any data put in The Cloud.
The case studies all use words like "secure", "MD5", "RSS feeds" and "encryption" to describe the security of The Cloud. I don't know about you, but that sounds damn secure to me! Some Clouds even use SSL and HTTP. That's rock solid in my book.
And don't forget that you have to use Web Services to access The Cloud. Nothing is more secure than SOA and Web Services, with the exception of perhaps SaaS. But I think that Cloud Services 2.0 will combine the tiers into an MVC-compliant stack that uses SaaS to increase the security and partitioning of the data.
My main concern isn't with the security of The Cloud, but rather with getting my Indian team to learn all about it so we can deploy some first-generation The Cloud applications and Web Services to provide the ultimate platform upon which we can layer our business intelligence and reporting, because there are still a few verticals that we need to leverage before we can move to The Cloud 2.0.
I use Amazon Simple Storage Service and I really like it. The only wish I have for it is that it would be cheaper. As far as quality of the service itself, I think it's as good as it gets nowadays, but don't take my word for it.
Copy.com is like Dropbox but they give you 15GB when you sign up and install the client. If you use a referral link like this https://copy.com?r=FJ0ixF you will start with 20GB. I like Copy and think it works as well as Dropbox and they are not as stingy with space.
We knew that already of course most of it depends on your connection which can be truly awful as well.
I'd wager cloud drive isn't going anywhere fast. Amazon doesn't like to kill services and it integrates with core aspects of the business. Unless you think the company's just going to disappear, I'd consider that fairly reliable.
I really want to stab any moron who uses the term "Cloud" in the eye with an icepick. .
I guess someone was told that they had to publish something this year or lose their faculty position, so this is it.
'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
I tried Dropbox a few months back. It was quite slow because of the way they transferred the data in a blocking way. When trying to upload a 2GB file to their service, I would see my network activity jump to about 30mb/s in 1/2 a second, then drop down to 0, then 1/2sec later, start transferring the next block. My connection was effective used only 1/2 the time. Even worse, TCP didn't have enough time to ramp up, so it couldn't make full use of my connection.
Is there anything that emulates the dropbox API, so I can change all dropbox.com to myownserver.org in my hosts file and be done with it?