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By: Vik Hathi

Vik Hathi — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:40:39 +0000

As a Dell shareholder its good to see them coming out with this. However, its interesting to note that as of late a lot of traditional hardware companies have turned to adopting and marketing software based services – which makes sense as the margins on hardware are not where they used to be. Now like a few have already mentioned, LogMeIn has been a very good player in this field for a while, and their Hamachi offering is something to contend with. If Dell comes out with something like this for their server business this would probably put them on the playing field – especially if they offer some integrated control solution within the their own hardware. Until then LogMeIn can have their cake and eat it too.

Vik Hathi
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By: Clyde Lerner

Clyde Lerner — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:17:40 +0000

I agree with Scott that http://www.LogMeIn.com is the way to go. It’s extremely versatile (Mac/Window compatible) and has been around for a long time. I’ll check out the Dell offering, but don’t intend to switch. A great alternative I use when offering remote support is http://www.crossloop.com. The trick is you don’t even have to create an account to use it! It’s a little more cumbersome, though, than LogMeIn. I use both the free and paid versions of LogMeIn depending on the situation.

Clyde Lerner http://www.ITMComputing.com

By: Scott Lewis

Scott Lewis — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:53:13 +0000

Logmein does a better job. They have a free version for remote control and a version that supports remote file transfers, chat, etc for $70 a year (although if you use the free version long enough you’ll eventually get offers to buy it for half price). They also support Macs fully, both to view screens and to access your Mac remotely. http://www.logmein.com (I neither work for them, nor am I a paid customer, I use the free version).

By: Paul Ridden

Paul Ridden — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:22:38 +0000

This is interesting. I agree that Cloud Storage is the way to go but you have the caveat that you are trusting other to host your files and it may go away. I use Amazon S3 as it is cheap and (so far) reliable. Out of interest I check out the SMEStorage.com that Kamran posted a comment about, and found that I could use my Amazon S3 Account with something called OpenS3 that they have in beta. As far as I can tell this is giving me what Dell is giving me but much cheaper. I’m only paying 20 cents a GigaByte for hosting and now accessing my S3 through SMEStorage I can view my files on my iPhone – for 20 cents a month ! A little cheaper than $9.95 per month…….

By: kamran yousaf

kamran yousaf — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:37:03 +0000

Cloud storage is the way to go. Access your files and data anywhere. I use smestorage(http://www.smetube.com/smestorage/) which is free and allows me to share files with my friends and colleagues for free