Personal CloudTom Casaer - March 2012

IW mobile OS’s

Symbian 10%, Windows Mobile 5%, Windows Phone 4%Survey in 17 countries in Q2-Q3 2011: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, the UK, and the US

“18 month” time lag between shipments and IW adoption

Apple used by IW

Forrester, Januari 2012, Apple Infiltrates The Enterprise And Reshapes The Markets For Personal Devices At Work“In 2011, IT decision makers forecast a 52% increase in the number of Macs they will issue in 2012” (that is up to 15% of new installs)

IW ⊂ Personal Cloud

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Core services

IW PIM Sync

IW docs Sync

API support

Apple iCloud +++ +++ + +++

Amazon CloudDrive WhisperSync

+ + - +

Microsoft SkyDrive LiveMesh

++ ++ +++ +++

Google GoogleDocs CloudConnect

+++ ++ ++ +++

feature to embed created documents

#Users #Docs Devices/month

Stored volume

Apple iCloud 100m

Amazon Cloud Drive

Microsoft SkyDrive 17m 360m 5m 10 PB

Google Docs 4.4m

* Oct 2011&Feb 2012

* Feb 2012

* Oct 2011

* Sep 2011

free storage

file upload size limit

50GB cost/yr

1 TB cost/yr

Apple iCloud

5GB* none $100 $2,000

Amazon cloud drive

5GB 2GB $50 $1,000

Microsoft SkyDrive

25GB 0.1GB $25 $500

Google Docs

1GB 1GB $10 $256

*doesn't include your photos or purchased music, apps, books, and TV shows

300MB/2GB via web/PC 20/50GB for $10/$25 100GB for $50

Microsoft view on personal cloud types

• File clouds: traditional file and folder structure in the cloud - SkyDrive, Dropbox

• Device clouds: A device-centric view of cloud storage "hides" the folders from you- iCloud, AcerCloud

• App clouds: Fully embrace the cloud and enable new ways to collaborate, organize, and share - Google Docs, Evernote

Steven Sinofsky on SkyDrive in Windows 8 20 Feb 2012

As we developed Windows 8, we thought deeply about how these services can take an even more active role in completing the experience—offering a cloud service for each and every Windows 8 customer and all their PCs (and phones), should you choose to use it.

--StevenRead more: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/20/connecting-your-apps_2c00_-files_2c00_-pcs-and-devices-to-the-cloud-with-skydrive-and-windows-8.aspx#ixzz1mXNupnGV

SkyDrive wave5 rumours

• Post files & folders to Facebook, Twitter, ...

• Access files & folders on local PCs & Macs

• URL shortening

• Support for OpenDocument formats

• Manage BitLocker recovery keys stored on SkyDrive

SkyDrive Metro

SkyDrive Metro

SkyDrive Mac client

SkyDrive Social posting

SkyDrive add PCs & Macs

SkyDrive RAS

SkyDrive short urls

SkyDrive new features

SkyDrive ODF support

SkyDrive new pricing

SkyDrive API

SkyDrive shortcomings

• Need MS Office 2010 on PC to edit documents on SkyDrive Web App

• Unlike Google docs

• Only Office & ODF document formats, no PDF, HTML, RTF

• Only Word, PPT, Excel, OneNote, no Forms, Tables, drawings creation

Tim Cook on iCloud

Januari 24th, 2012 The response from customers has been incredible. It solves a lot of problems that customers were having and made their lives much easier. And so I see it as a fundamental shift, recognizing that people had numerous devices, and they wanted the bulk of their content in the cloud, and easily accessible from all of the devices. I think we’re seeing the response from that, and with 85 million customers in just three months, It is just not a product. It is a strategy for the next decade.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57365582-37/apples-cook-icloud-more-than-mere-product/#ixzz1mXNupnGV

iCloud in Mountain Lion serves as a bridge between tablet and desktop

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iCloud, Apple’s cloud-based sync and store system, launched in October 2011 and has already accrued 100m accounts. Having been woven into iOS 5, it’s now getting the same deep integration into Mountain Lion. Just as when you set up a new iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, Mountain Lion includes iCloud as part of the initial registration. All of Apple’s recent flagship features are included, in fact, so that you arrive at the desktop with iCloud, Safari preferences and FaceTime all set up and ready.

Log in with your Apple ID – or create an ID if you don’t already have one – and Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Messages, FaceTime, Notes, Reminders, Game Center, Mac App Store, Documents & Data, and Bookmarks are all configured, backed-up and synchronized.The Mountain Lion iCloud UI is very similar to that of the iPad. iCloud Documents opens up at the document library, listed chronologically by last edit date. You can create folders iOS-style by dragging documents on top of each other, and any changes you make on your Mac are automatically pushed back to iCloud and available from your iOS device, of course. Meanwhile, a developer API offers third-party software the opportunity to use the same sync technology.

Ben Reitzes on iCloud

Barclays Capital, november 8th 2012 “A truly reliable cloud service that frees customers from wires should foster more customer loyalty and convenience, in our view,” and that CEO Tim Cook “gets it” when he says iCloud is “profound.”

“It basically makes the cloud the digital hub — not the Mac or the PC,” continues Reitzes. “Furthermore, iCloud lays the groundwork,in our opinion, for a foray not only into TVs, but devices we haven’t thought of yet.”

Read more: http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/11/08/aapl-icloud-as-big-as-itunes-says-barclays/

Ravi Kalakota on iCloud

Apple’s ‘content AND device’ strategy

• make easiest to use - iCloud sync

• content deals to increase stickyness

• add value - iWork editing on iPhone

= Consumer oriented public cloud data service

Read more: http://cloudblueprint.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/personal-cloud-management-apple-icloud-microsoft-skydrive/

iCloud rumours

• AppLibrary, storing an app’s data & docs

• Folderless structure for storing documents in the cloud

• Auto Save & create new iCloud-based documents in apps that support iCloud

• Media streaming from iCloud+AirPlay mirroring to TV

http://www.ipatrix.com/3893/two-killer-features-of-mountain-lion/http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/16/mountain_lion_brings_new_ios_like_file_handling_icloud_app_library_features.html

Tom’s thinking

• Apple excludes Facebook and YouTube from Mountain Lion-only Twitter, Vimeo, Flickr. No platforms, only isolated services

• Interactive Maps & location search api’s-own LBS for iOS + Placebase, Poly9 aquisitions

• AT&T @ 3GSM: allow app makers, rather than customers, to accept responsibility for data. Protect data usage caps, avoid throttling

Joy of Tech on iCloud

iCloud in Mountain Lion

Amazon S3 explosion

AcerCloud

AcerCloud will include three components:

• PicStream to sync photos

• AcerCloud docs for documents

• clear.fi Media to sync music and videos