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Cloud Computing

Notes 11.4.4 MyDataBus

MyDataBus is a simple way to store, transfer, and share your files online. E-mail photos, videos,
& music, use group collaboration tools, or post files for MySpace, eBay, LiveJournal, and Craigslist.
MyDataBus also integrates with your Facebook account. A free account receives 5GB of free
storage, including a file-size limit of 250MB.

11.4.5 Nirvanix

Nirvanix provides a choice of public, hybrid, and private cloud storage service options. The
underlying technology includes:
Cloud File System, a virtual file system specifically designed to handle millions of users
and billions of files in a single global namespace with data consistency.

Cloud Storage Network which consists of nine globally dispersed carrier-class data centers.
Customers can locate data close to users and to choose redundancy levels by replicating
data to two, three, or more data centers.
Cloud NAS Gateway software which installs on Windows or Linux servers and provides
access to the Nirvanix cloud storage services.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:

11. Online storage services typically allow ………………… to purchase and access extra storage
space within a number of minutes.
12. ……………………… is a service which allows users to perform scheduled and real-time
data backup.

11.5 Exploring Online Bookmarking Services

Social bookmarking means storing your bookmarks online, tagging them to remember why
you wanted to save them and what you might want them for in the future. You can also share
them with others who might value your web surfing experiences. And don’t worry — you can
always choose to keep some or even all of your bookmarks private if, for some reason, you
don’t want to share.
Social bookmarking sites are in many ways the ultimate folksonomies, categorising web content
by an open process of tagging. The result is a road map of the web, based on the recommendations
of people who have travelled it extensively.
In many ways, the information gathered by social bookmarking services is like the wild, young
sibling of the web directories. But now, every web surfer is a potential editor, licensed to
categorize and recommend all kinds of websites.

11.5.1 BlinkList

BlinkList is a powerful productivity tool that makes it easier for anyone to share and save their
web-links to use them later on. They give you a browser button to save web pages you like in
one click. With BlinkList you can save a local copy of any web page on your computer. That way,
even if the web page disappears, you will always have a local copy that you can get back to later.
They provide you a website so that you can easily access all of the links that you saved from any
computer.

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