- “Cloud development: 9 gotchas to know before you jump in” by Bob Violino (ComputerWorld; 2011.04.25) – http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216124/Cloud_development_9_gotchas_to_know_before_you_jump_in?source=rss_news
Online storage
- YouSendIt – https://www.yousendit.com/
- TransferBigFiles – https://www.transferbigfiles.com/
- Dropbox – http://www.dropbox.com/
- “The Cleverest Ways to Use Dropbox That You’re Not Using” (Lifehacker) – http://lifehacker.com/5527055/the-cleverest-ways-to-use-dropbox-that-youre-not-using
- “Use Dropbox for More Than Just File Syncing” – http://lifehacker.com/5358983/use-dropbox-for-more-than-just-file-syncing
Security problems:
- “Dropbox Caught With Its Finger in the Cloud Cookie Jar” by Woody Leonhard (Infoworld; 2011.05.16) – http://www.pcworld.com/article/227999/dropbox_caught_with_its_finger_in_the_cloud_cookie_jar.html | http://www.infoworld.com/t/data-security/dropbox-caught-its-finger-in-the-cloud-cookie-jar-179?source=footer – Online file storage and sharing site Dropbox admits that it can see the data you’ve stored. Oops…
- “Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges” by Ryan Singel (Wired; 2011.05.13) – http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/dropbox-ftc/
- “How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings” by Christopher Soghoian (“slight paranois” blog; 2011.04.12) – http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-user-privacy-for.html
- Dropbox, the popular cloud based backup service deduplicates the files that its users have stored online. This means that if two different users store the same file in their respective accounts, Dropbox will only actually store a single copy of the file on its servers.
- “Why I switched from Dropbox to Windows Live Mesh” by Ed Bott (ZDNet; 2011.07.04) – http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/why-i-switched-from-dropbox-to-windows-live-mesh/3512
- Due to recent security problems and their bad policy about user data, you must pre-encrypt yall your data that you store in your Dropbox cabinet. TrueCrypt is one good offline encrypter: Dropbox TipsAndTricks > Truecrypt – http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/Truecrypt
- “How To Add a Second Layer of Encryption to Dropbox [Updated]” by Melanie Pinola (Lifehacker) – http://lifehacker.com/5794486/how-to-add-a-second-layer-of-encryption-to-dropbox
- Dropbox portable: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=33387
- Microsoft’s SkyDrive – http://skydrive.live.com/ – another online free drive storage [up to 25GB] – requires Hotmail account.
- use og GMail as the online disk:
- GMail Drive shell extension – http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
Related here: Cloud security – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/cloud-security/ | Virtualization Tools – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/virtualization-tools/ | Virtualization security – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/virtualization-security/ | Threats of cloud computing – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/threats-of-cloud-computing/.