Pixeom lets you set up cloud services without the data center

Grazed frin ITWorld. Author: James Niccolai.

If it’s not the NSA or Google it’s someone else. These days it seems there’s always somebody scanning your data, looking to make a profit or to learn something about you. What if you could set up your own social network or e-commerce site that didn’t require putting your information in someone else’s data center? That’s the idea behind Pixeom’s palm-size cloud in a box, a $125 device (or $99 if you’re among its first backers on Kickstarter) that aims to make it easy to set up your own social network, file exchange and e-commerce site at home without using public cloud services.

You take the plastic device home, plug it into your Ethernet network and access it from a PC using the device’s IP address or, for the less technical, from a mobile app. It comes with three applications installed — one for hosting online discussions, one for file sharing and one for setting up a digital storefront…

There are plenty of public cloud services that do similar things, but according to Pixeom founder and CEO Sam Nagar they all suffer from one problem: trust…

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