Tag Archive for 'sync'

Another contender to the sync/cloud/store crown

Published by Ben Kepes on June 10, 2008 in IT, SaaS and Web x.0. 0 Comments

Apple’s announcement today of its MobileMe product is yet another validation for the cloud sync model (and another competitor for the incumbent providers).

The MobileMe offering is quite broad, as well as the expected file, contact, calendar and mail syncing, it also covers gallery and location based services (which is logical given the GPS features of the iPhone 2).

The MobileMe website is a nice offering, it has a familiar interface, much like the native individual apps would have (ie MobileMe mail looks just like a desktop mail app) - MobileMe thus bridges the current gap between the cloud based syncing offerings and application themselves.

Mobileme is priced at USD99 per annum with 20GB of storage. How the market place reacts to that pricing remains to be seen - 20GB is pretty light for a service that encourages photo sharing - but extra 20GB storage chunks are available at USD49.

Check out the introductory video here.

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Microsoft LiveMesh

Published by Ben Kepes on April 16, 2008 in IT, SaaS and Web x.0. 2 Comments

RWW reports that next week MS is due to make an announcement at the Web 2,0 Expo. Apparently most pundits think this will be announcement of the Launch of LiveMesh. So what is Live Mesh?

It is believed that LiveMesh will allow users to sync files across multiple devices both mobile, cloud based and fixed. LiveSide is running minute by minute updates of what LiveMesh actually turns out to be here.

It’s a very interesting space - in the last few days we’ve had coverage of SugarSync (review to come), Syncplicity, and now possible moves to upgrade Foldershare to provide similar functionalities.

Much of what I talk about in terms of the benefits of Office 2.0 suites, revolves around collaboration - the ability to siultneously work on documents in multiple locations. These offerings don’t really help with any of that.

But what about a different usage situation?

In my day to day consulting life, I don’t do any file collaboration (most of what I do is solo). I do however work in multiple locations, on multiple machines, from time to time without my own machine etc etc. So for me, all I really need is something that keep files synced between machines and a copy on a secure location in the clouds.

All these offerings would seem to do that, it just comes down to added features, cost and reliability.

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