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"I am curious as to what other Slashdotters use for backing up of home machines," asks long-time Slashdot reader serviscope_minor:
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On August 2nd, 2019 with 118 comments
simpz writes: Does anyone know of a fairly inexpensive webcam that doesn't depend on a cloud service? A few years ago, you could buy a cheap webcam (with the...
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On June 2nd, 2019 with 252 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader Qbertino is your typical Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP) developer, and writes that "in recent years Docker has been the hottest thing...
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On July 26th, 2018 with 103 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: It is almost a decade since Rick Rashid, then head of research at Microsoft, posed that question and ventured his own...
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On July 6th, 2018 with 190 comments
dryriver writes: If you are a user of a popular professional desktop software program, it is not uncommon for that program to get anywhere from 5 to 20 major...
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On December 11th, 2017 with 341 comments
snydeq writes: Sure, nobody's perfect. But for those in charge of enterprise technology, the fallout from a strategic gaffe, bad hire, or weak spine can be...
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On October 16th, 2017 with 421 comments
snydeq writes: "The rise of shadow IT, shortcomings in the cloud, security breaches -- IT leadership is all about navigating hurdles and deficiencies, and...
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On January 25th, 2016 with 168 comments
Qbertino writes: I'm toying with the thought of moving my web development (PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript with perhaps a little Python and Ruby thrown in) into the...
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On June 23rd, 2015 with 107 comments
bromoseltzer writes: I use cloud storage to hold many gigs of personal files that I'd just as soon were not targets for casual data mining. (Google: I'm...
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On February 6th, 2015 with 178 comments
jppiiroinen writes: F-Secure, a company based in Finland, has sold its cloud storage business to a U.S. company (Synchronoss Technologies, Inc) speculated to...
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On January 1st, 2015 with 190 comments
An anonymous reader writes My father is considering a Chromebook, but there is a problem: He occasionally wants to print. Chrome OS only talks to physical...
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On April 2nd, 2014 with 119 comments
bellwould (11363) writes "Our CTO has asked us to move our entire dev/test platform off of shared, off-site, hardware onto Amazon, Savvis or the like. Because...
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On March 14th, 2014 with 52 comments
Lordfly writes "I'm part of an online group of local hobbyist, semi-pro, and professional photographers. I want to start an editable map that showcases...
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On December 29th, 2013 with 112 comments
First time accepted submitter zeigerpuppy writes "It's time to revisit Wave, or is it? I have been looking to implement a Wave installation on my server for...
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On November 29th, 2013 with 80 comments
diab0lic writes "I have recently come into the situation where I need to run cloud computing on demand for my research. Amazon's EC2 Spot Instances are an...
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On November 21st, 2013 with 226 comments
goodminton writes "I'm research the long-term consistency and reproducibility of math results in the cloud and have questions about floating point...
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On November 19th, 2013 with 237 comments
An anonymous reader writes "TurboTax from Intuit and H&R Block's own tax package have been perennial mainstays for U.S. citizens trying to use software to...
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On November 3rd, 2013 with 200 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Almost three years ago, I started looking for a cloud storage service. Encryption and the "zero-knowledge" concept were not...
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On September 11th, 2013 with 121 comments
First time accepted submitter MadC0der writes "We just signed a project with a very large company. We are a computer vision based company and our project...
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On July 26th, 2013 with 274 comments
First time accepted submitter MrClappy writes "I manage the network for a defense contractor that needs a cloud-based storage service and am having a lot of...
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On April 12th, 2013 with 122 comments
Nerval's Lobster writes "Death is Nature's way of telling you it's time to get off the Internet. But when you finally shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave...
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On October 11th, 2012 with 182 comments
First time accepted submitter Stiletto writes "I work for a traditional 'old school' software company that is trying to move into web services, now competing...
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On July 14th, 2012 with 189 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Cloud-based personal data management is pretty cool... if you don't mind entrusting the entirety of your personal data to a...
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