There are times where I am amazed at what people will put forward to an unsuspecting (or in this case suspecting) public.
This company, Private Planet, headed by Dr Janko Mrsic-Flagel aspires to lead us down the primrose path.
From UK Technology Live:
“Well both are paramount,” explains Dr. Mrsic-Flagel. “One of the great differences between us and the likes of Amazon and Google is that in our model you actually OWN your own cloud computer. This is a big difference. The telecom operator will host it for you. You will be the telecom operator’s customer, but you will own that computer. The privacy issue goes away, because you own the equipment that holds your data and it is not shared with any others. Unless you want it to be.”
In a datacenter that you have no control over and…and…
I have no words.
Read on.
(Image used under CC from purplemattfish)
As far as I understand this concept, you can host it at home, but it is personal cloud computer. Very impressive presentation at the Mobile World Congress.
@John
If this were in fact a system to be hosted at home this would completely remove it from any cloud based model.
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