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THE CLOUD!

THE CLOUD!

Piston Cloud Key Fits The Cloud On a USB Drive

by Eric Limer | 11:10 am, September 29th

With a name like “the Cloud,” you sort of expect it to be something amorphous, nebulous, and hard to picture, much less something you can get your hands on, but thanks to ex-NASA engineer Joshua McKenty of Piston Cloud Computing, the cloud can be shrunk right down and crammed onto a USB drive. Kind of. Granted, the USB itself doesn’t contain terabytes upon terabytes of storage space and untold computing power, but it does provided access to those, in the form of a personalized cloud, if you jam it into the network slot on a server rack.

The idea is to make all the cloud configuration take place on the software side. What does that mean? Well, an IT Manager is able to plug a Piston cloud key into his computer and set the parameters for the cloud via CloudAudit, parameters like who has access, how much storage space it’ll have, how much computing power, etc. Then, after that’s all done and it’s plugged into the server rack, the PentOS, the software stored on the key, will boot up automatically, go about its business finding the appropriate servers to allocate, and generally configure the cloud according to the programmed specifications.

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THE CLOUD!

Everything You Wanted to Know About iCloud

by Max Eddy | 4:31 pm, June 6th

Steve Jobs and his buddies at Apple have just wound up their keynote presentation at WWDC 2011. The legendary Reality Distortion Field was at full power today as many new features were announced for the Mac Lion OS and iOS 5. Perhaps the most anticipated portion of today’s precedings was the announcement of iCloud, Apple’s new cloud service.

Jobs prefaced the iCloud announcement by saying that the tech landscape has moved into a post-PC world. From now on, he said, Apple will consider the computer as just another device — the same as an iPad or an iPhone. iCloud will take the place of the computer at the center of the so-called “digital lifestyle,” moving all our valuable data seamlessly between the devices we used to access it. Jobs stressed that iCloud is not an online drive for storage, but outlined a system that pushes and pulls data between all devices, including computers.

The phrase Jobs echoed throughout the entire announcement was, “it just works.” These features are intended to be seamless and fully integrated, so new users will have no problem picking them up, and existing users won’t have to adapt to them.

Read on below, for a look at we can expect with iCloud.

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