There are many talks about cloud storage and storing files remotely as a way to protect data from loss. While it is a great way to use free services for this purpose, you might also need to think about learning about this technology as a learning environment. It does not matter if you are an information technology, information assurance, digital forensics, cybersecurity, or computer science student, you will need an infrastructure where you can experiment and learn on your own. Hardware prices and open source operating systems make the setup of this environment easy and cheap.
If you are in computer science and try to learn about programming, you might find it easier to learn about network based programming by setting up a web server and experimenting with HTML and JavaScript as a start.
It seems like every application that is written these days are based on web services or use web services as its interface. Thus, it is in your interest to learn about network based programs and program execution. You will also need to think about safeguarding the code you write and ensuring its availability as you are progressing with your studies. So, you might need to learn about server management and file sharing.
One of the lesser known file sharing technologies is iSCSI ( Internet Small Computer System Interface, an Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage networking standard ). It typically use TCP ports 860 and 3260 and provides authentication for secure sessions. It is based on the Target ( server ) and the iSCSI Initiator ( client ) model that is built into Microsoft Windows 7 and above or can be freely installed on XP machines for iSCSI support.
There is not much "talk" about this technology, so I wanted to bring this technology to light for those of you interested setting up a home based network environment.
Watch video on how to setup and use a ReadyNAS based system.
http://youtu.be/Ag3tfc2VSUA
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