More Cloud validation - Apple's iCloud

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Apple officially unveils iCloud. Engadget has a liveblog going here.

I've been very bullish on cloud domains for years and while "cloud" related names, services, products and articles seem to keep popping up with regularity lately, big announcements like iCloud join older big concepts/services like Amazon's EC2, Microsoft's Azure, Google's offerings and many others to confirm the Cloud's current peak and strength that seems here to stay.

Apple reportedly paid more than $4million for iCloud.com so this will hopefully have a halo effect on other cloud domains.

 

[Gerry]

Apple reportedly paid more than $4million for iCloud.com so this will hopefully have a halo effect on other cloud domains.

$4.5 from a Swedish company who was using it. That company now uses CloudMe.com which had iCloud redirecting to it for quite sometime.

Since the announcement, its all Apple!

 

[Theo]

The cloud is yet another buzzword that has yet to prove itself as a reliable service in terms of uptime and data security.

 

[Gerry]

The cloud is yet another buzzword that has yet to prove itself as a reliable service in terms of uptime and data security.

True, but in its infancy.

Bottom line, a business has to have 100% confidence in Security before trusting 100% of their data to such a system.

The biggest issue, as we have seen time and time again, no matter how secure a system is all it takes is someone from within with access to breach and publish the data.

So is there a 100% safe system? as long as someone has access to it...no.

 

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The cloud is yet another buzzword that has yet to prove itself as a reliable service in terms of uptime and data security.

True-- but then again, such a thing can be said about any and practically every technology.

Especially those in use at the enterprise. For example, Amazon's downtime weeks ago seemed like a referendum on cloud computing, when in fact these things happen (large-scale downtime, etc.) on almost any popular site or service provider, and many years (some even decades-) after, sound like they still have to really prove themselves. But that doesn't appear to stop adoption, except only that when the concept hits hypergrowth and mainstream-service levels (like Apple's or FB's or Google's cloud offerings in this case), the concept becomes an unstoppable train.

 

[Theo]

Actually, the difference between sharing one's entire digital library on the "cloud" - a euphemism for an Internet ring - and hosting content is huge. Security-wise, it's like posting your most intimate moments on facebook. Already Apple is taking a different approach to what iCloud is: a method of up/down-streaming apps to all the Apple devices one uses. In that sense, it's not a true cloud technology, it's a method of accessing and syncing data via different devices.

 

[Biggie]

Security-wise, it's like posting your most intimate moments on facebook.

Yeah and....

Don't tweet, pics of your meat!

 

[Infoproliferati]

Just read a tweet that says "Help! My father thinks the Cloud is a satellite up in space that all your data is stored on!" Lol

To some it is truly a buzzword. True that uptime is very slow and data security needs a whole lot of work. But then cloud computing is still in its infancy.

 

[Theo]

Yeah and....

Don't tweet, pics of your meat!

Especially if your name is Weiner, no less

 

[RustyK]

Hold your horses there big fellah ... the real sheriff is in town.

iCloud Communications, an Arizona-based computer communications company, filed suit against Apple on Thursday for allegedly infringing on its trademark of the name iCloud. - http://www.pcworld.com/article/230127/apple_sued_by_icloud.html

more here ...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386771,00.asp - The Letter included here.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/12/icloud-communications-sues-apple-for-obvious-reasons/

ok maybe not ... good try iCloud Comm

 

[Theo]

Actually the only registered trademark for "icloud" was owned by the very company Apple bought icloud.com from.
There are several pending applications from other companies but I'm sure Apple bought the tm from xcerion as part of the deal.

 

[Gerry]

Hold your horses there big fellah ... the real sheriff is in town.

iCloud Communications, an Arizona-based computer communications company, filed suit against Apple on Thursday for allegedly infringing on its trademark of the name iCloud. - http://www.pcworld.com/article/230127/apple_sued_by_icloud.html

That was a waste of filing a claim.

There are 13 iCloud TM's, Apple owning 11 of them, some guy in Cary, NC having one, and Xcerion.

When searching for a TM for iCloud Communications, I found zero.

No need to buy the TM rights from Xcerion because they are still in the cloud storage/computing sector and relocated their website to CloudMe.com.

But someone in Taiwan owns CloudMe TM.

Very confusing.

 

[Infoproliferati]

This trademark business about who has the rights to use a name is starting to spiral out of control. Almost every other day one company is suing another over some trademark. iCloud Comm is shamelessly looking for some currency.

 

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Like that patent troll Lodsys, iCloud Communcations is likely just using whatever trademark claim they can use to make a buck off Apple's (gilded) coffers, not necessarily because there's anything actually legitimate they can lay claim to or require suing Apple for. In fact, all the hoopla over Apple's iCloud could only do wonders for their own business.