Category Archives: Business

File Sync & Online Backup

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File Sync & Online Backup – Access and File Sharing from Any Device – SugarSync.

The most popular plan is the 100GB for $150/year which comes to $1.50/GB/year.  It costs around $0.18/GB to transmit and receive in BW costs based upon various datacenter estimates  YMMV.  The max, 250GB is $1/GB.  Thus, a 1T storage requirement would probably be maybe $500/year?  That’s just for storage.

Assuming a roundtrip for all data, bandwidth costs can approach $0.35/GB or close to 35% of the yearly cost for the 250G plan and %70 of the yearly cost on my mythical 1T plan.

Cloud Storage Providers

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Rackspace “Cloud Files™” is among the most popular and simplest cloud storage solution offered today. Cloud Files™ enables its users to have the ability to store unlimited files and media for content delivery at blazing fast speeds on its Limelight CDN Content Delivery Network. Some of the advantages of Rackspace CloudFiles™ include:

  • Rackspace is the largest retail cloud storage provider today.
  • Best technical support in the industry 24×7 365 days a year.
  • Use as much or as little storage as you need.
  • No minimum contract or commitments. Access your files from anywhere. High performance unlimited cloud storage for as little as 15¢/GB.

via Cloud Storage Providers.

Another shoutout to Rackspace….

Welcome to Soekris Engineering, Inc. – Home

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Soekris Engineering, Inc. has been proudly designing and manufacturing reliable, robust, superior quality communications computers for 10 years.

We stand behind our reputation of providing our customers with a product they can depend on at a fair price. We support our customers by giving them a stable hardware platform on which to add value that is unique to their industry and/or needs.

via Welcome to Soekris Engineering, Inc. – Home.

IT inferno: The nine circles of IT hell

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Thankfully, as in Dante’s poetic universe, there are ways to escape the nine circles of IT hell. But IT pro beware: You may have to face your own devils to do it.

Shall we descend?

1st circle of IT hell: Limbo

Description: A pitiful morass where nothing ever gets done and change is impossible

People you meet there:Users stranded by vendors, departments shackled by software lock-in, organizations held hostage by wayward developers

via IT inferno: The nine circles of IT hell.

Simple Cloud CRM

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Really Simple Systems Cloud CRM is aimed at small and medium sized organisations or departments of larger organisations who want a simple, easy to use web-based CRM sales, support and marketing system. The hosted CRM model is particularly suitable for companies with multiple locations and people who work remotely or at home. With over 5,000 users Really Simple Systems is one of the world’s largest providers of Cloud CRM systems and has offices in the UK and Australia. Customers range from single user to 300 user systems, and include Tumblr, the Red Cross, the Royal Academy of Arts, the British Museum, NHS, the Department for Environment and RSM Tenon as well as hundreds of small and medium sized companies.

In October 2010 the company launched Free Edition, a ground breaking free CRM system for two users.

Simple Cloud CRM – Free CRM, Small Business CRM, Web CRM.

Facebook stores up to 800 pages of personal data per user account

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If you live in Europe, then you have the right under a European data protection law to request a copy of all information stored about you on any given service. In the case of Facebook, you can demand such information via the Personal Data Requests form.

via Facebook stores up to 800 pages of personal data per user account | Geek.com.

Facebook is relatively new and the average person doesn’t value their privacy — thus, Facebook has been able to acquire a huge amount of personal information on each member.  Organizations might soon value privacy and see value in the data they generate,  in which case local highly available onsite (or perhaps offsite)   SANs will become a useful investment.  Associations without a central authority (i.e. Facebook) might become desirable.  It is however not feasible for an average person or small business to run their own web server.  They should, however, be in complete control over the data their web site generates.  Users of Facebook have no control over the dissemination of the data they and their connections generate.