Iomega announces a virtual machine in a portable hard drive

While everything is moving into the ever-popular cloud, Iomega is trying to convince us that physical storage is still the way to go. Sure, you could use web apps to store all your important files so you can access them from nearly everywhere, but wouldn’t you rather carry it around on a hard drive? Well, not just your important files, but your entire computer.

Iomega has just announced a way to do just that. They call it v.Clone, and it essentially lets you carry around a virtual machine of you computer on any Iomega drive. Iomega is saying that it’s helpful to carry around not just some files, but applications and games as well. Which does make sense, though it seems if you always need your computer somewhere, a laptop would solve those issues without having to rely on finding a computer.

There are a few requirements to v.Clone which will likely render it largely unused: you need an Iomega external hard drive, and it only works on Windows PCs.

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