Oh and another thing about the storage as a service model. Here in Oz the government is very keen to start giving kids laptops as education aids - you can already claim buying your kid a laptop for school against tax (within reason - $700 max). And the schools are getting more computers, better connections and so on.
But no one has asked, how are they going to back it up - you don't want little Johnny to lose his school graduation project a week before final exams do you. And the whole ideas of online portfolios for kids to lodge their final project reports, artwork etc is calling out for some sort resilient distributed backup.
And again a little voice is whispering in my ear 'rsync and cloud computing" as a solution to this ...
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In today's Australian there's a report that Bruce Dixon, an international education consultant, is advocating giving each kid their own laptop. And that they need to have internet access.
So far so good, but internet access isn't everything - what about backend services to support this?
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