No, you can’t buy a cloud at Best Buy
December 9, 2014
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.
By now we’ve all seen that Western Digital commercial for the "personal cloud," in the form of My Cloud. Western Digital is the latest company to push the concept, with compelling TV commercials, such as the one below.
The premise is not new. Other storage companies have brought similar products to market that let you set up your own storage cloud at home with access to files using your home network or over the Internet, even when you’re away. The feature is often part of higher-priced routers, too…
These products are network-attached storage (NAS) devices, not cloud storage. Although they’re very handy (I own several), calling them "clouds" is a stretch. But I guess that’s what marketing is all about: stretching reality to create demand…
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