Exactly, I believe there's a clear cycle going on (mainframes - pc - clouds - personal clouds).
Fueled by:
- moores law (massive compute power and storage at cheap prices)
- bandwidths growing
- new tools and devices that create constant streams of data (smartphones, collaborative & filesharing tools etc.)
- commoditization of our most-used online tools (see dropbox)
- a desire to have one integrated point of access/control
and a raising awareness of how important it is to own/control our data (caused in part by constant news coming out on hacks, data breaches and how basically data companies are the new oil companies)
The article refers to 'private cloud', and you refer to 'personal clouds'. From reading the rest of the article, though, it appears this is a single on-premise server.
'Cloud' usually refers to some abstraction above the physical hardware layer, that allows you to not worry about the fate of a single physical computer. This seems to be the opposite of that.
Fueled by:
- moores law (massive compute power and storage at cheap prices) - bandwidths growing - new tools and devices that create constant streams of data (smartphones, collaborative & filesharing tools etc.) - commoditization of our most-used online tools (see dropbox) - a desire to have one integrated point of access/control
and a raising awareness of how important it is to own/control our data (caused in part by constant news coming out on hacks, data breaches and how basically data companies are the new oil companies)
Yes, it's a server :)
ps. I'm one of the founders