We wrote several articles about
Cloud Computing and
cloud Storage. Symform, a company founded by Parerit Garg and Bassam Tabbara (Ex-Microsoft Employees) has arranged an unique
way to give 100 GB of
Free Cloud Storage to the Customers and Partners. Most other online Cloud Storage providers offer 2GB or 3GB for free, this looks great.
Wow! Free Cloud Storage of 100 GB ?
Wait, you have to contribute 150 GB of your Hard Disk drive to get this 100 GB Cloud Storage. As
Dong Ngo rightly said at cnet, their claim that it is the first service to offer this kind of
Free Cloud Storage Sharing
service. So, calculate your cost of Bandwidth, electricity and most
importantly you must be aware that your local hard disk is being
accessed by a third party application to get this free Cloud Storage.
So how this Free Cloud Storage works?
After
initial sign up. you will be able to download a .net based application
to synchronize your data and use the Free Cloud Storage.
Practically,
you can not control the bandwidth this Free Cloud Storage application
will suck from you. You can not stop the service of Free Cloud Storage
application from task manager either, this Free Cloud Storage
application will run with Administrative privileges like a system
application.
So, will I use this Free Cloud Storage?
You
are asking us whether you will use this Free Cloud Storage? We will say
to stay away from this Free Cloud Storage application and Free
Cloud Storage service. The reasons are:
- It
seems the company does not have proper infrastructure to provide a
great deal or Free Cloud Storage, you can easily understand the
situation if your hard disk has lots of virus, malware and you “donate”
your 150 GB space as a part of ” Free Cloud Storage application” using their .Net based app.
- Google Storage and Google appspot offers blob based storage, enough for storing images and static files, kind of Free Cloud Storage.
- Rackspace and other standard brands offers Cloud storage that is really not too steep and have excellent security.
- Microsoft
itself offers Sky Drive to store your data. It is not true “Cloud
Storage” still we can think it as Free Cloud Storage, as you are
seeking something for free.
- With Dropbox Free Cloud Storage, you can increase your quota by referral system.
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