Personal Cloud

 

Personal or Private Cloud?

Good question!  As far as my personal devices of organization concerns... it is personal cloud.

Just as many of you -  these days - I use all my new devices as well, but tell you the truth I find difficult to synchronize them or it takes time think it over where should I look for what I need. Is it on my laptop, or my desktop, or my tablet? What about my latest music downloads? And I haven’t mentioned my photos yet. Until now my best option was to email my stuff to myself and use my USB driver to bring data from one to the other.  Therefore I’d rather look for some secure and reliable option …with lots of flexibility of course.

The good news is that many companies are already offering web-based data center services. Which means you keep your files in one place also share your files with your friends no matter its location.

This kind of services has been around for a while, but the idea about collecting it together in one user experience is relatively new, this new idea is Personal Cloud. The challenge is to make sure that your Personal Cloud integrates to all the services you care about such as Microsoft App, Mac icloud, or Android devices and apps.

Market leaders such as Amazon Cloud Drive or Microsoft Sky Driver are great cloud services, but they are based their own cloud services, and you still need to use a browser most of the time to use these services. Google Drive is a newer provider that also provides storage, and cloud based apps. Apple iCloud meanwhile is only a media storage service and the final one to mention would be DropBox which seems to be a great solution and can providers great offline access to files.

The only piece missing is a way to get to all these services, easily.

Now there are guides that help you become better at setting up your own personal cloud such as Lifehack How to set up your own private cloud storage service in five minutes with owncloud. Basic idea is use owncloud.org or a something new like the start up zeropc.com to collect all the cloud services into one cloud capability. This is a great way to start to take advantage of the ideas of a personal cloud. Clever.

 

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