Once you have conceptualized and started using your personal cloud, you have to protect the content. Protection should utilize a combination of both online and offline storage, and incremental and archival backups.
Email Flow/Backup
General Flow/Backup
All email (incoming/outgoing) starts in a Gmail account (first online storage) and is auto–forwarded (copied) to MobileMe (creating a second online storage)
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In building a personal cloud the first question should be what constitutes a personal cloud? What is important to you? What content needs to be accessible anywhere and at all times? For me, the content is calendaring, contacts, notes, projects and tasks. And it needs to be accessible at various access points: desktop computer, notebook [...]
MedicalQuack raise the issues of competing strategies and philosophies for health information exchange. One end of the spectrum is the PHR-movement, with Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault the front-runners. On the other end of the spectrum is the RHIO-movement, lead by insurers and governmental and non-governmental third-party providers. A fundamental question at play here is [...]
Interesting two announcements today: MedPedia and Knol. MedPedia is reminiscent of the start of eMedicine several years ago, an invaluable resource and a commercial property. eMedicine had its academic beginnings as well. Contrast that with Knol, which appears to be a director competitor or heir to Wikipedia. What I would want from both: authoritative content [...]
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