ViFiB has just announced an experimental offer for free Internet access via fiber optics, coupled with a major technological breakthrough in the field of cloud computing.
People who live in France and who meet the technical requirements, can have a form of cloud computing at home offered by ViFiB – a French hosting company.
The idea is to set servers in houses and offices equipped with broadband Internet access in order to create an Internet more respectful of the Environment. Indeed, most Web sites you visit need to operate a PC called a server. This PC allows information to be stored and redistributed. Websites like Facebook or Google use thousands or even tens of thousands of PCs concentrated in one place to provide you their services.
ViFiB statement is to say that spreading servers in houses across the country is better rather than pooling them all in a data center – which has escalating energy and cooling costs.
In return for hosting two home PC servers provided for free by ViFiB, ViFiB will pay its customers up to 30 Euros per month to subsidize the cost of the fiber-to-the-home Internet connection necessary for fast access.
ViFiB Cloud offers its infrastructure to companies in need of hosting services on an elastic Cloud distributed infrastructure.
The first customer to adopt ViFiB is TioLive, a hosted ERP company. After France, Jean-Paul Smets -ViFiB CEO- wants to place servers in homes in Japan where he has got some offices.
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