[EternalVigilance]

In 2013, cloud storage companies raised $1.2 billion from venture capitalists,

The cloud turns out to be blue sky.

[EagleUSA]

It never fails. Too many companies chasing too little business. Economics 101.

[Dr. Sivana]

That means Box and Dropbox, which sell software for businesses and consumers to store and use files on the Internet rather than a machine

Oh, it is still going into a machine all right, just not YOUR machine.

I expected better from the San Jose Mercury News.

[factoryrat]

When local memory has become so cheap to purchase, to the point where you can buy multiple redundant backups dirt cheap, why would anyone store info on some anonymous server somewhere, without any idea of who else has access to that info? The “cloud” is just another scheme for data mining. If your data is not on a closed system, it has already been comprimised.

[TomGuy]

I just do not trust ‘online’ storage, etc.

I have lost content when some companies just decided to close a certain service — without notice.

USB hard drives are cheap and hold massive amounts of data.

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Then, there is the problem of the cable company deciding to play with their connections so the internet is either sporadic or down for a few hours.

[nhwingut]

Whatever you do, don’t use Google. They’re basically a quasi government subsidiary.

[Nervous Tick]

“The Cloud” — euphemistic geekspeek for “ever-more-dodgy server capacity, in increasingly far-away disease-and-strife-ridden third-world hellholes you wouldn’t even collect stamps from”.

Thanks, but no thanks.

[glorgau]

Sort of like when browsers became free - Netscape had to radically change it’s business model. It’s hard to make money on something that is free.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

http://mega.co.nz gives you 50 GB free.

[Vendome]

Microsft Office, $10 a month for 5 computers, your tablets and cell phone.

1 terrabyte storage per PC

What is the value add from dropblox or those dummies at CarbonFlake?

Buh bye....

Sugarsync too. No real reason for their lame existence.