pogoplug= Personal Cloud

The central question of this paper is: What is personal cloud computing (Personal Cloud Computing)? How should this problem be solved?

Today, the world has entered the era of http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/8344.html > Mobile Internet. As a result, a person may have multiple computing devices, such as fixed desktop computers and mobile notebooks, netbooks, tablets or smartphones. How to achieve "data synchronization" between these computing devices becomes a very urgent and critical issue. In fact, cloud computing is primarily about solving this problem. But massive cloud computing, such as Facebook's social network, has brought some real problems, such as privacy protection for the vast majority of users. Thus, this objective demand has spawned the so-called "personal cloud computing" solution. As you know, Ubuntu is one of the pioneers of "personal cloud computing", for example, when Ubuntu offered "Ubuntu one" commercial Web services in early 2009, but the average person at the time didn't understand the actual role of "Ubuntu". See: Sean Michael Kenner's signature article, "Ubuntu 10.10" s Personal Cloud for Ubuntu,mac,and Windows (published October 7, 2010).

In fact, the US "Cloud engines" Company's "personal cloud" solution is simpler, more economical and more thorough. This is the famous personal cloud "Pogoplug" outlet box solution. At this year's CES international Electronic exhibition, the participants are concerned, please see: "Wall Street Journal covers Orbotix,pogoplug at CES" (January 7, 2011). Also, in terms of personal cloud computing, the recent move by Asus, said ASUS Personal Cloud computing products will be released at the end of this year, see: "Asus developing A Secret" Personal Cloud Computing "Device (February 17, 2011) “。

In fact, the core idea of a personal cloud computing solution is: try to store all of your personal data in your "personal home" (fully controlled by the user), and on any mobile device of the user, such as smartphones and tablets, to access the data easily and quickly via the Internet. We envision a scenario in the near future where users will be watching his favorite "blockbuster" movie with their tablet, and the "blockbuster" stream of multimedia data comes from his "personal home" ... In a word, he lives in his own "personal cloud" circle, as long as he would like to invite good friends to come in to play, together to see the film.

We have to ask, "personal cloud" core components (multimedia database) put in their own "home", how users can be free access to the data inside? This is the crux of the problem. The plug-in "Mini Server" based on the Linux operating system can solve this problem. On weekdays, the mini server is constantly running (consumes very little), and, it is always with a specific external "intermediary agent" server interconnected, as long as through this "intermediary agent" server can access their home "multimedia database", the reason is so simple.

Let's make it clear, "the purpose of personal cloud computing is not complicated, it is to try to do one thing: the user all mobile devices are connected together, through the Internet share a" big virtual hard Disk "(1~2TB), and this" big virtual hard disk "control power is always in the user's own hands. Let's say a little bit more, this is to allow users to face a unified "personal cloud" operating system, all of his mobile devices are managed, personal data is no longer distributed storage.

At present, international venture capitalists are very optimistic about the business prospect of "personal cloud computing". On December 21 last year, "Cloud engines" also received a second round of venture capital of 15 million U.S. dollars, the investor is a world-renowned Morgan Stanley (Morgan Stanley) Financial Group, in response to the incident, the group's executive Jamey Sperans said: "We Believe that Pogoplug's on a fast path to becoming's world "s leading cloud storage Service" fully demonstrates the bright market prospects for the "Personal cloud computing" data storage industry.

Description: "Personal cloud computing" is a useful supplement to large public cloud computing. Linux based mini Server although the product is very small, very humble, but its significance is very significant. In the near future, personal cloud computing Windows,mac OS and Linux are closely intertwined with each other, you can not leave me, I will not be leaving you, we have the same. In this mixed environment, because many people like to use pirated XP, makes pure Linux (Penguin Girl) also stained with a "pungent", really unlucky.

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