Cloud
< MINITEL 2.0
< INTERNET
< TECH
< romainpouzol
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Lorsque Richard Stallman s’exprime, il ne laisse généralement pas la Toile indifférente. Ce qui se comprend aisément puisque, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google…, il critique ouvertement et radicalement ce que tout le monde ou presque utilise au quotidien. Son récent avis sur le Cloud Computing en général et Google Chrome OS en particulier dans un article du Guardian que nous venons de traduire ne déroge pas à la règle [ 1 ] .
I’ve always been a big advocate of storing things in the cloud. Not just emails and files, but my entire life. As I’ve written before, I live permanently in hotels , and my whole life fits into carry-on luggage.
I can't stop thinking about two of our stories from last week: the interview with J Chris Anderson of CouchOne and this article on how open source software has become "invisible" due to the cloud. We're obviously very excited here at ReadWriteWeb about the opportunities presented by cloud computing. But we're also worried about how cloud computing is reducing users' control over their data. So I was pleasantly surprised to discover another project trying to solve some of the hard problems with cloud computing. Unhosted is a new project attempting to break the monopoly that SaaS providers have over users' data by seperating applications from data. We talked to Michiel de Jong, the project's founder, about how it works.
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware . Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications .