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Monday, September 17, 2012

Are you in the cloud?

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Cloud Drives Platforms
We use computers. Therefore we have computer files. But there is a cloud - computer cloud.  It can do a lot and be used as a virtual storage.
It has also feelings. Look at the message I got few days ago: "Recently your  Dropbox has been feeling kind of lonely :-( ". A human cannot ignore so warm message. Three main criteria to make decision on using the cloud are: safety, capacity and price.

Safety
One of the most important factors is data safety.  We can lose pen drive or can be broken or stolen by competitors. All ideas can go forever to nowhere.  I do not have any data backups.  But how many backups we need and how often?  According to Global Backup Survey in 2009 majority of the respondents do not have any backup and two of every three respondents lost pictures or files. Computer cloud stores our data and does backups. So the key problem is solved.