Backup Clouds For Schools

Thane Terrill posts a great description of Cucku:

Cucku allows you to turn your home computer or the computer of someone you know into a personal version of Amazon's S3.

He goes on to recommend Cucku for schools and also for laptop users.

What I like about Cucku is that it's easy to use, secured, and includes built-in backups. There are plenty of secure connections -- VPNs -- and plenty of backup systems, but not many easy-to-use combinations of the two. With hard drive space being plentiful and home Internet access fast, Cucku makes a lot of sense for the cash-strapped school.

Read the full post at Technology on a Shoestring.

posted by Rob on Wednesday, August 13, 2008

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PC World on Cucku

Neil McAllister gets one of the main benefits of using Skype for backup - it just works:

The big advantage of this method is that, thanks to the Skype engineers' know-how, it makes it easy for less technically inclined users to connect to each other, without worrying about the vagaries of routers, firewalls, or IP networking.

He also nicely sums up why we describe our approach as Social Backup:

In these modern times, when a terabyte of hard drive space can be had for just a couple hundred bucks, couldn't we all spare a few megabytes for a friend?

Read Cucku Backup Invites You to Partner Up over at PC World.

posted by Rob on Tuesday, August 05, 2008

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