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Comparison of storage clouds

Cloud Basics

Article from ADMIN 11/2012
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Central network storage with clients for any platform are convenient, although the popular designation "cloud" is debatable. Yet, what is the best implementation? We compare three storage cloud solutions.

In this article, I'll look at three different storage clouds: Dropbox, ownCloud, and Cloud Station (Table 1). The well-known Dropbox [1], was a pioneer of third-party hosted NAS memory. It was followed, for example, by the Strato HiDrive and Ubuntu One, to name only two. ownCloud [2], a software solution, makes it possible to set up a similar service on local hardware. This solution would recommend itself, for example, if you have concerns about the safety, reliability, or performance of a third-party host. In this variation, everything remains under your control, with the server in your own computer room.

Table 1

Three Storage Clouds in Comparison

Feature ownCloud Dropbox Synology Cloud Station
Version 4.0.1 – Beta
Documentation
Manual Installation Guide No No, one page in the DSM manual
Wiki,

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