Worried About Your Data In The Cloud? Stop Whining And Get Your Own Cloud

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Karsten Strauss.

We knew this was going to happen. We’d heard about the “forthcoming era of cloud computing” as Bill Gates stepped away from Microsoft MSFT +0.46% in 2008 and the company’s then mission seemed to be to adjust to post-PC realities. Steve Jobs tried to sucker Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston into selling him the cloud-sharing company in 2009 prior to Apple AAPL +1.47%’s eventual release of iCloud.

Now that we’re knee-deep in the cloud, some users are getting a little bit nervous about having their data stored somewhere else, overseen by who knows who. It’s this uncertainty and nervousness that StoAmigo’s CloudLocker is built on. For those for whom Google GOOG +0.27%, Amazon, Microsoft and Dropbox’s server farms are too far away for comfort, CloudLocker gives you your own private cloud…

“This is a mini cloud server. It sits in your home, it sits in your office, wherever you choose,” said Tony Tan, CEO of CloudLocker’s Las Vegas-based parent company, Duvon Corporation. “You actually keep everything – all of your files, your videos, your movies and all that – in that server. If you wanted to share something you would share off that server.”…

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