Cloud storage is becoming quite a trending topic within the NFS community. There are quite a few companies that offer a wide variety of services. Generally, end-user services include basic file synchronization, back-up and shared-access of your files. Linux, Mac and Windows platforms are typically compatible. Encryption of your files is generally practiced server side and always during transmission, with the exception of Apple Mobile ME and Linux Ubuntu ONE.

Microsoft Live Mesh will encrypt your files during transmission, but not server side. Regardless, head on over to http://www.mesh.com and download the windows client if you are running windows. If you are running open Linux or BSD-like variant (OS X), you can also upload/download files via mesh.com active desktop. Anyways — without opening cloud desktop suite chatter, which in the near future HP+Palm, Blackberry and Google OS are absolutely pursuing, the active desktop appears to mimics other remote server-standalone virtualized web-desktops. 

 

 

Log in with UMass Boston credentials, and start synchronizing your documents. Also, by installing the live mesh application the end-user can allow remote desktop access over HTTP+SSL if there are multiple devices added to the ring. Mesh will even work if the mobile machine is roaming on a network with strict UDP/SSL+TLS access control lists. Neat eh? 

 

Sending and receiving your data without a secure socket connection is vulnerable to any peer snooping the air/wire. 

 

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