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	<title>Comments on: Why the cloud may be the final frontier for scammers</title>
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		<title>By: Timothy Post</title>
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		<dc:creator>Timothy Post</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just heard about you guys on the TWIT podcast today. Couple thoughts:

1. While it&#039;s great that you guys use Amazon S3 to back-up client files, what would be even better and ground breaking would be if you would enable clients to back-up files to their own Amazon S3 accounts.

The whole reason for backing up your content from the cloud is that things change and companies go bankrupt, fail, are bought, merge, etc. So while it&#039;s great to have a second copy of our files on your S3 account, there&#039;s nothing saying you guys won&#039;t change in the future.

Therefore, it would be much better for those of us who are super serious about guaranteeing our data to back it up to our own accounts.

2. Currently, you are offering clients the opportunity to &quot;pull&quot; data out of various cloud web services and back it up. While this is cool, the holy grail of cloud computing would be if you could offer us the opportunity to &quot;push&quot; certain files out to those same services.

For example, let&#039;s say I&#039;ve backed up all my Flickr files to Backupify but decide that I want to migrate to another newer web based photo sharing service. In this case, I would delete my photos from Flickr, download the same photo files from Backupify to my desktop, and then upload them to the new service. What would be much better would be if within Backupify I had a dashboard which would enable me to &quot;turn-off&quot; Flickr permenantly and thus, delete the photos but also to enter my new username and password for the new photo web service and Backupify would &quot;push&quot; those photos into my new account and automatically populate it.

Such a pull-push option is what everyone is dying to have available. Eberyone is sick and tired of having to manually populate every new web service.

So, how about it? Any chance either of these options might be possible?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just heard about you guys on the TWIT podcast today. Couple thoughts:</p>
<p>1. While it&#8217;s great that you guys use Amazon S3 to back-up client files, what would be even better and ground breaking would be if you would enable clients to back-up files to their own Amazon S3 accounts.</p>
<p>The whole reason for backing up your content from the cloud is that things change and companies go bankrupt, fail, are bought, merge, etc. So while it&#8217;s great to have a second copy of our files on your S3 account, there&#8217;s nothing saying you guys won&#8217;t change in the future.</p>
<p>Therefore, it would be much better for those of us who are super serious about guaranteeing our data to back it up to our own accounts.</p>
<p>2. Currently, you are offering clients the opportunity to &#8220;pull&#8221; data out of various cloud web services and back it up. While this is cool, the holy grail of cloud computing would be if you could offer us the opportunity to &#8220;push&#8221; certain files out to those same services.</p>
<p>For example, let&#8217;s say I&#8217;ve backed up all my Flickr files to Backupify but decide that I want to migrate to another newer web based photo sharing service. In this case, I would delete my photos from Flickr, download the same photo files from Backupify to my desktop, and then upload them to the new service. What would be much better would be if within Backupify I had a dashboard which would enable me to &#8220;turn-off&#8221; Flickr permenantly and thus, delete the photos but also to enter my new username and password for the new photo web service and Backupify would &#8220;push&#8221; those photos into my new account and automatically populate it.</p>
<p>Such a pull-push option is what everyone is dying to have available. Eberyone is sick and tired of having to manually populate every new web service.</p>
<p>So, how about it? Any chance either of these options might be possible?</p>
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