GigaOM Pro

Local network storage and cloud storage are beginning to become blur for the consumer as network storage vendors blend in cloud-based access to digital content.

Reading Om’s piece on Pogoplug this week, I started to think about how local network storage and cloud storage are becoming indistinguishable to the end user. While it’s not technically cloud storage, Pogoplug allows you to placeshift by accessing your locally stored content through the cloud, making anywhere access to content much simpler. Previously, accessing local network storage remotely was accomplished by most through a process called FTP, or file transfer protcol. But most consumers have [...]