Iomega Personal Cloud devices host your data, not your water vapor

Finally, a new flavor of Iomega that the EMC fanboys can find palatable. The bigger company consumed the smaller back in 2008 and, while we’ve seen plenty of products since then, none have really brought the two together like the new Personal Cloud edition of the Home Media Network Hard Drives. In theory, anyway. The idea here is that this is a smart NAS , creating your own little puff and hosting your data for general availability but avoiding the ” careless computing ” curse by retaining control of your data. It’ll naturally play nice with the new Iomega TV and, if you buy two of the things, you can have one perform an automated remote backup to the other. That’s the sort of feature that should make a tight-budgeted IT manager’s ears perk up. How tight? The first two models of Iomega’s Home Media Network Hard Drive Cloud Edition devices launch this month: 1TB for $169.99 and twice that for $229.99. Gallery: Iomega Personal Cloud press shots Continue reading Iomega Personal Cloud devices host your data, not your water vapor Iomega Personal Cloud devices host your data, not your water vapor originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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