Drew's space

         An idea prompted by Brandon LeBlanc's blog on cloud computing and node storage http://www.brandonleblanc.com/2009/12/19/how-i-would-run-a-cloud-service/comment-page-1/#comment-2691

 

Instead of centralized or node storage with massive storage farms for cloud computing could we use servers  that like bit torrent split the load . In other words encrypt and send storage to many multitudes of users whose computers become the cloud for themseles and for their neighbors and to participate we volunteer a portion and a partitition to the cloud.Like I said encyrption, and data splitting prevent privacy loss and each bit of data could be backed up on many computers.The benifit is of course is that failure of one or two machines is possible but not of a dozen. Of course the trick is the redundency of the router and encryption network. I feel that this could be backed up in real time across several parallel systems with existing technology but will be really efficient when we have quantum routers that use nonlocality to achieve redundency.