Cloud refers to cloud computing and the delivery of computer as a service rather than a product.
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Backup photos from Google Plus?
I'm interested in using Google Plus to backup my photos online, but I'm nervous about trusting my backup to only one location. I'd like a way to automatically download my Google+ photos from the web ...
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Mobile cloud solution with frontend web interface [closed]
I have been looking at Baas providers like Parse.com , StackMob etc but I need a solution where I can build a flexible web interface to store the data which my mobile apps will read. I don't want to ...
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Company Cloud Where I Can Assign Files To A User
I'm looking for a script/solution for my company. Basically a place to store our contracts/invoices for our clients online (so it will be hosted on our web servers), giving our clients access to our ...
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How to enable cloud9-latex-plugin
I recently installed cloud9 on my server to provide a platform for collaborative text writing and tried to install the latex plugin following the instructions in README:
This plugin introduces ...
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Effective solution to sync single files between several machines
Many cloud syncronization tools (such as SpiderOak, Wuala, Dropbox, SparkleShare and many other) have a one big drawback - you can not syncronize single files such as ~/.vimrc, ~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc - ...
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Setting Up Computer Server [closed]
My friends and I want a to setup a server where we can just dump all our music files. I would use my computer for the storage space, and my friend (who lives somewhere else) should be able to access ...
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“Vanilla” Cloud Storage to back up NAS
I'm looking for a way of backing up a NAS to the cloud. I don't want any sort of sync services as the workflow will be to back up my laptop to the NAS (something like Synology, as I like the web ...
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My web app on a private cloud [closed]
I am currently working on a project in which I developed a java web application for e-gov. I would like to host my website on the cloud and since the data used will be pretty sensitive, a public cloud ...
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Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (111) while installation of OpenStack
I am trying to install openstack on my local machine. I am following the documentation from devstack. The installation process breaks due to the following error:-
ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to ...
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Looking for an open source alternative to Dropbox that does not require host storage
I have a VPS, but I only pay for a few GB. Is there an open source solution which would allow me to use my VPS to manage file sync between my clients like Dropbox without storing the files on the VPS? ...
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Advice for Building Personal Cloud with Google Drive Interface [closed]
Does anyone have any advice for building a personal cloud using my home PC with an integrated interface like Google Drive???
I want to use my own hardware to have as much storage as I want, and I ...
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Where is files accessed with WebDAV stored in Windows?
I am mounting a cloud storage using webdav on Windows. I tried to access a pdf file and as I see from the file properties it only indicate the network location. But I suspect Windows must have store ...
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Do Google Drive and Ubuntu One have the same concept?
Do Google Drive and Ubuntu One have the same concept?
I just have an Ubuntu cloud account and Google Docs.
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In concept, are there any working setups for locally mounting several cloud services for free, encrypted storage?
The reason I started thinking about this was that I remember back when Gmail started offering several gigabytes of space, software came out that "mounted" your Gmail inbox as a drive in Windows (this ...
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How to check if a cloud server is under performing [closed]
I am trying to create an automatic way to determine if a cloud server is under performing and to remove it from the load balancer and to put a new server in it's place. Had to learn the hard way that ...
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Media library backup
I'm using PC about 11 years and I lost all of my data 1-2 times by accident. So I have no trust to hardware.
Now, I'm kinda backing up all data everyday to cloud services as skydrive, dropbox etc. ...
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Using a dropbox-type solution for students where their folders are protected [closed]
I need a solution like dropbox for computers in our lab where students have access to their files. We created an account for our lab on dropbox and so there's a folder now synced on all computers for ...
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What exactly is “the cloud” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is cloud computing?
What exactly is "the cloud"? According to Wikipedia, the source of all knowledge, cloud computing is
the use of computing resources ...
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Local cloud Gaming (e.g local OnLive)
Is there a software that allows to create OnLive-like server for game for playing in LAN?
Computing power and bandwidth is enough to do such thing, software is the only problem.
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How can I encrypt a file on Windows 8 before storing it on Dropbox?
I would like to store some sensitive information in the cloud (my preferred cloud service is Dropbox). I would like to encrypt it before putting it in the Dropbox folder for synchronization.
What's ...
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How do I setup a cloud server to share and sync files on ESXi hosted environment?
I want to setup my private cloud network for my company for syncing and sharing files. Instead of using existing players like dropbox, google drive, amazon etc. I want to setup my own cloud ...
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Xbox Music only “matches” ~70% of the songs on most of my albums. How can I make it recognize the other songs?
When Xbox Music matches a song on my PC, it adds it to my "Xbox Music cloud". I can stream music from this cloud to all of my other devices.
The problem is, it fails to match at least 2-3 on most of ...
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HP CM1415 scan to cloud or scan to email/FTP?
I'd like to have possibility to scan using HP CM1415fnw multifunction printer and send it automatically to cloud (e.g. Dropbox), email or FTP server.
I've installed new firmware, which is described ...
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What characters are not allowed in SkyDrive file names?
I'm adding my music to SkyDrive, and a file failed to sync with this message:
Error: This file name contains characters that aren't allowed.
Resolution: Please change the file name so it doesn't ...
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Cloud Services: Resource containing latest offers details of cloud services [closed]
I am working in a project that aims to develop a decision support tool for cloud services comparison (similar to cloudorado.com, cloudharmony.com, shopforcloud.com). One of the aspects to compare will ...
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Windows 8 Password Storing [closed]
I was wondering if someone could please shed some light on how Windows 8 stores password or if it does at all? I believe that Windows 8 has more cloud features and that it goes by your Windows Live ...
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Dropbox modification of file in 2 different places at once
Suppose I have a source code file in my dropbox which I have worked on from my desktop machine, and the version in my laptop is out-of-date because I haven't had internet access or the company proxy ...
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Why there are two glance related process while I failed to start glance server? [closed]
So do I have to start glance using root, as the saying: You must use the sudo program to run glance-control according to ...
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why i cannot download the pdf document from openstack? [closed]
http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/os-compute-adminguide-trunk.pdf
you may find the above link by clicking http://wiki.openstack.org/Documentation#Administration
it seems a bit ...
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Can VMware run on top of a OpenStack VM?
Our project has resources on an OpenStack cloud and needs to run an application that according to the application developers 'can only run on VMware' until a future release which will also run on ...
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Setup home server on extra machine, access and auto-backup over internet [closed]
Now, i read about this a lot on the internet, but i'm here hoping to get some personal experiences/opinions. At work, i made the mistake to buy a pogoplug, hoping to backup all the data at home. That ...
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What's the fastest cloud sync for gazillions of small files? [closed]
I work on several different machines (office/home/laptop) and I like to have my whole development environment with me and in sync all the time. That enables me to be productive right away without ...
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How secure are public cloud services like Skydrive, Google Drive, Dropbox? [closed]
I'm using Skydrive, Google Drive, Dropbox in my daily work for temporary file sharing.
About year ago, I lost all my private photos, videos, when my HDD totally stopped working.
Now, I want to keep ...
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Good practices of creating redundant archive for long time cloud storage
I want to create digital archive of photos, documents and other imporant stuff to store in the cloud (likely Amazon Glacier). Preferably one year per archive, up to 10 gigabytes each. I want to make ...
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What are the relation and difference between a “personal cloud,” NAS, and RAID?
I just heard the name "personal cloud." Someone said if I know the technology, then I can build a personal cloud for myself. But I googled the name, and there seems not a definition for that thing.
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roving clients amazon aws
I am using an amazonaws EC2 instance. As I am constantly changing IP's and IP's are constantly changing anybody knows a way to permanetly add my client. This way I do not always have to add IP ...
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Online backup service with advanced selective sync feature [closed]
I want to backup my data to a cloud. The issue is that all they are spread around the whole file system, so I need a possibility to set rules to filter what is to be synced, like:
don't sync mp3 ...
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Cross-platform file synchronisation methods
Within a cross operating system network containing different versions of Windows Clients (Win98, NT, Windows 7) and a Linux file server I would like to sync folders.
There are two limitations:
1) ...
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How does Panda Cloud Antivirus work? [closed]
The question is simple, How does Panda Cloud Antivirus work?
I mean how can it detect an infected file without having an offline database or sending the actual file to be checked by a remote server?
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Running an OS from a network drive [closed]
So what I want to do is be able to run my computer from a server. I don't want anything to be on the local computer. When I turn the computer on I want it to load windows 7 and all the software from a ...
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Free dropbox system [closed]
I'm looking for a free dropbox replacement. Currently I'm paying 100$ / year for my 50gb dropbox account and it will expire soon. Google Drive would be cheaper for me as I only need 25gb. But I'm ...
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A Cloud OS to Install on my Windows Server
Wondering if anyone has any experience or knowledge of some good, free, potentially open-source, cloud/Web Operating Systems that I can install and host on my own personal 2K8 R2 Server at home?
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Best opensource solution for private cloud? [closed]
I looked around via Google and Superuser's search function and I was unable to find anything directly answering this question, so I hope I'm not reposting this...
An organization I work with recently ...
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Does anyone use HDFS, Riak or commodity storage arrays for home backup? [closed]
Any experience with this that could give pros and cons? I'm tired of my external drives getting corrupt. Maybe just use raid?
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What is “Ubuntu Server for Cloud”?
What is "Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS for Cloud"?
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/cloud
Is this the right server edition to download if I wish to configure a web-based file server? What is the ...
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httpd on CentOS resolving only the first VirtualHost
I just got a new cloud server and while setting it up, I can access the web root by pointing my browser to the IP address of my server, but the domain names are still propagating so when I go to them, ...
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Amazon Cloud Reader – Download or Print
I purchased a book in Amazon and it added it to the kindle cloud. The cloud reader application was installed in Chrome running on Ubuntu. I downloaded the book for offline reading. My questions are
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Run VMware Player on CentOS 6
I am trying to run VMware Player on CentOS 6. I am stuck with the following issue after installing the VMware Player package. VMware Player fails to start and gives the following error message.
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How to Maintain a small differential Virtualbox hard drive
I am trying to use a virtualbox hard drive over several computers using dropbox (a popular cloud tool) synchronization. I assume no two machines will open the same drive at the same time.
To reduce ...
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Screenshot to cloud in linux
Is there a program for linux that takes a screenshot, uploads it to the cloud and generates a link to share with friends?
Meaning, does all that seamlessly, without having to save it to a file and ...
