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emo iPhone Manual teed LETS ea Lites oleic) ind Manual Uierednacd Beit . Recent Items > Force Quit. XH Sleep Restart. Shut Down. nin CE What is Cloud Computing? ) History of the Cloud FROM CUMULUS TO CIRRUS ‘The considered and accepted evolution of the cloud, from concept to daily use, starts as far back as the 1950s. According toa popular myth John McCarthy, the {BM developed ts mainframe VM/370, or Virtual computer centistwho cinedtheterm‘artcial BEES) Machin Facity’370 system in 1972 Using the ineligence’ dreamed up the concept of Hercules Emulator program scientists were able computing time-sharing In those day, computing costmlions to access the VM/370 in mt vital machine tates all of colar 0 McCarthy came up wth the dea of renting from asingle system. time-shared computing resources ta companies who couldn't afford the technology. This mamentis regarded as the beginning ofthe loud concept. 1 R Licker developed ARPANET Aanced “Wig ott ty buen ESD tescschtroecsagecynetwort network BEEREEEEQ) boom andinprovedcmuncatons trateveruaybecane eas te Inert enalagren oma maken Using McCartystalconep ieklde’svsin as Tor wsersacesng remote esoutesva.300 bts per secand evenjneonthe globe tobe nfercomectedandacessng modems Eee was standardised and ugh MS 005, el otic enieae ep feta in elsewhere in the world became accessible to all through Bulletin Boards and the lke A a FEY, (History of the Cloud Gl The Internet grew exponentially throughout the 905A a result the st instance ofthe term cloud computing’ was used by a group of Compaq Computer engineers. Tt was ina 1996 presentation entitled ‘Internet Solution Division Strategy fr Cloud Computing, and was a sion forthe company'sfuture business model BT) LL} Intemet Slutions Divs Say for Cloud Computing ‘In 1999, the cloud computing concept began in earnest with the launch of Salesforcecom. Salesforce used the now maturing Internet ta offer shared sales information for a company, along with collaboration, storage and reporting through a web-based portal This initiative paved the way fr other companies to deliver both apps and enhanced content over the Internet Ly ‘Anather significant milestone inthe clouds ELLE) storys the launch of Amazon Web Servicesin 2002. Ths service provided acloud-based suite of resources that ticked every aspect ofthe cloud defition Tt offered storage, computation and vtualzation and was ack expanded. Expanding on the Web Services model, Amazon launched its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006 EC2 was designed to provide scalable resources inthe cloud and provided the users the ability to configure the service with minimal management. Py Google's growth and domination of the Internet saw the company releasing its Googe Apps ciud-basedsenices in 2006Laterin 2011, Apple announced its ov cloud storage solution Apple iloud And in 2012, Google Ove was launched, ringing together al the cloud defitions under a atgeance B M Google Apps . a® 9 BERTLOEMD cevices, better networks and faster access tothe Intemet has resulted in a considerable cloud boom in recent years. Estimations put the ‘money spent on cloud services at the end of 2016, nthe region of $1.4 tilion and that growth sn-looking to slow down anytime soon 200 2012 These of more powerful mobile nian CE What is Cloud Computing? The cloud and all the services relating to cloud technologies have some pretty big numbers associated with them. Here are A nett some interesting factoids about the cloud. , 4 ( = - - 60-70% Itis estimated that 60-70% of all IT enterprises will be investing in cloud-based solutions by the end of 2020. 85% 95% Itis estimated that by the end of 2020, 95% of all workloads will be cloud-based, 5% ofall new t software developed in 2020 wil be for ‘loud deliver, 14% of all i in ia companies that have fully adopted cloud solutions es ee have downsized their IT workforce. @ 2 © 27 | However, 20% have hired more IT staff since adopting a full cloud solution. ENTERPRISE COMPANIES WILL SPEND ‘33% MORE ON CLOUD SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS IN 2020 OVER 2019. ACCORDING TO STATISTICS, USING CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES OVER TRADITIONAL SERVERS CAN CUT COMPANY IT COSTS BY UP TO 65%. 52% OF ALL ENTERPRISES SPEND MORE THAN $1.2 MILLION PER YEAR ON CLOUD SERVICES. J "4 tell Itis estimated that seen on QWS ‘was spent on Amazon Web Services in 2019. ems) Global IT spending on cloud solutions will grow by 3.7% in 2020. ‘Some companies state that they've seen increased profits of up to 28% from using cloud services. 35% ofall current ere over cloud (The Cloud in Numbers ail ae eer . % mal % of ll cloud usage fey 2 3sce OF. Maitfites storedin cloud contain: or personal data. Sources: IDC, Gartner, Ovum, Bain & Company, KPMG, Datasharp, IBM What is Cloud Computing? _) Types of Cloud Services ON-DEMAND AVAILABILITY Cloud services come in many guises and bewildering acronyms, Here are ten of the more popular cloud services and what they mean exactly GASS (Gaming As A Service) is set to take more DAAS (Desktop As A Service) enables the Intermet connection. It's said that f GAAS works well Beyond 2020, the console could become obsolete, CAAS (Communications As A Service) sounds DBAAS (Database As A Service) leaves the video conferencing solution that uses a campary mabile phone concentrate on using the database, while companies can cut plan with cloud integration tothe company's resources. Skype out the DB admin overhead, is another remote video calling service and, ata push so are Facebook and Twitter. ( Types of Cloud Services IDAAS (Identity As A Service isa cloud-based SAAS (Software As A Service) covers the ike of identity and user management service that can Grail YouTube and even Netflix Tt gives access to help secure access to bath virtual and physical a full service housed inthe cloud; the company resources through various layers of security For example, reeds to either populate it or simply pay for what they want thumbprint reader software and iris detection access are Essentially it’ the entire cloud setup under asingle ite. handled via IDAAS. JIS (Infrastructure As A Service) covers servers STASS (Storage As A Servic) is where you {and networking in the cloud. company can have simply buy clouc+-based storage. For example, a all or pat of its core network based inthe cloud, company could provide STASS for llits workers, offering different resources to different users. allowing them access to cloud storage as opposed tothe ‘companys in-house storage. Google Drive and Dropbax are oe Sa ~~ What is Cloud Computing?) Cloud Problems CONCERNS IN THE CLOUD With the responsibility of entire company fortunes and user's private data, cloud providers do their best to limit problems; but they do appear from time to time. ee Working from the cloud. isallfine and well but what happens when the connection goes down? lack of Internet access can leave entire companies with emplayees staring at blank screens. re VeN BOL Athough the intial cost of CELE cloud onmershipismuch cheaper than atractional, onsite solution, asthe service grows, socan the cost to the company Social gaming compary Zynga moved away from using cloud-based services when the costs started torise beyond $150 milion. Similarly, what would happen should the cloud providers acces to the outside world fil? Thankfully, due to .geo-redundancy,it doesrit happen too often, However, even big names such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon have lost connection to claud servers inthe past. ORT oawe Lc HTTP Error 503, The service is unavailable (Cloud Problems CAST Although the situations getting The cloud model SAEED better you.asacompanyoruser, PRCQCUFGIREESR ED presents valid case are atthe mery ofthe cloud for many businesses, provides terms and conditions. If youneed cloud access99% whathappers, however, when you wantto scale back to an in Of the time, but the provider only efers 80% then yout stuck house solution? The costs of migrating data, buying equipment, with the contractor yull need to look elsewhere hiring staff and suchlike can quickly mount ienarere New snooping and oud computing very secure but COURSED anteoriaty laws in mary LLGRQTERD sometimes there are examples where data countries mean that, at is hacked and presented to the world, The the government level itis possible to access your cloud data. infamous Frappening incident. where personal pictures of Naturally the government in question requires a warrant, ‘humerous celebrities were leaked from hacked Apple iCloud but. once issued mary cloud providers are powerless todo _accounts is one that still haunt anything Microsoft, fr example, moved some services to this day. different jurisdictions to avoid US. Government intervention, Eee ae Pr eee ee ee me a snnect ((sys.argv[1], 80 Cutting dow on in-house terations to MTR SEG and technical staff may CHANGE ISN'T ALWAYS GOOD Mania sound like a great cost-cutting applications, exercise as using a cloud provider means al your technical _frontvend web pages, portals and other elements in constant needs are handied elsewhere. However, isnot always the use, can be damaging, People do tend to fear significant best solution Having technical staff onthe groundis always _changes in technology; take Windows 7 to Windows 8.1, oF superior to phoning about an issue or request. different Office versions, for example, Retaining and firefighting technical issues can be costly in both time and expertise. Zz What is Cloud Computing? ) Why Cloud? Why should you use a cloud computing solution when having your own in-house IT setup is more traditional? What is it that makes using a cloud provider more logical in today's Preece ce AHEAD IN THE CLOUD ‘We've touched on a few areas and benefits of using a cloud provider for your business and home use, so let's break these downa little more. Cloud based solutions areinredibly Updating aserverisa GESCCS READ fexbiinthei-design Theycangrov LCOS time-consuming and as your business needs increase and comparatively stressful they can be scaled back should you ever require it. It this level affair Making sure the relevant security patch sin place and. of operational agility or elasticity that makes a cloud solution that, once applied, everything works the same way a it did perfect for the business and consumer IT model previously takes considerable planning, Using a cloud, on the ‘other hand, cemaves that stress, asthe engineers off-site handle the cloud’ servers. = « Both businesses of any size Cloud computing sa payas- POEM ASC ERAS andtomeusersshoudbe (LESQEEEXSESLED yourgo model in that yousimply concemed with building ‘rvestin what youneed at that a robust disaster recovery solution Inthe eventof alocalsed particular pont Using ths in conjunction with the elasticity catastrophe, the loss of personal fs or ctcal business datas cloud means that youl ony pay fr additional services or a nightmare situation However, recavering itcanbe quickand storage as you and your business grow easy fs stored in aremate cloud location Why Cloud? CSE Using the cloud mears that you Athough there are incidents of cloud OES ED andyourcomorterscan gain — ESUGAARD) hacking keeping datainthe coudis access tothe companys data as regarded as being far more secure than single unit This makes collaborating on a project wth remote having t available locally Lost laptops, USB flash dives, hard workers or teams on the other side ofthe planet, far easier Data drives recovered from old computes canal be a huge security Updates are in realtime, and the workflow isfarless confusing, risk with each containing data bank details and images, slong asan Potentially using a cloud NTO UATE IAD employee, or eA EEE ALT ESID model to run your business individual has can significantly improve your ‘access to the Internet, they can access the cloud solution competitiveness in the marketplace. Youll have access to 24/7 behind the company This allows the utilisation of expertise servers cutting edge applications, and you can keep the costs from around the word without the expense of relocation. down by only paying for what youuse. Home users can also upload images and documents from any Internet available device, When youhave numerous The datacentres that house PTeT RON TED users all working off a GREEN COMPUTING JROrpeeeesatens single document youll energy-hungry places. eventually come across conflicting copies and formats, By using However, since you ony use the computing resources for which cloud model, document controls kept inline by all users youpay, as does everyone else inthe cloud the overall energy working from a single, stored document source.Also,the digital required bythe datacentre is as minimal as possible. No wasted storage cost of multiple documents emailed to and from users power makes for a greener carbon footprin than a traditional is drastically reduced server room setup “== aii) BRS) wratis Cloud Computing? ») Anatomy of the Cloud Talking about connected technologies, all accessing a central cloud infrastructure across several geo-redundant datacentres can be a little difficult to visualise, How is it all connected, where do you and your computer or device fit into the big picture? CLOUD STRUCTURES Let's take a moment to build the anatomy of the cloud from the ground up. Starting with you, the use, sat in front of your computer or device. between you and where the actual item youre (although it’ alittle more complex for viewing is stored. Starting with you,either asahome user or something as big as Dropbox). The Dropbox portal, to put it the cloud resource youre accessing. You and your network Internet via an ISP (Internet Service Provider) storage and computing power. The software Well view the Intemet here asa separate connection where thatthe Dropbox servers runt the user via the portal front youll browse for websites and such Connection toacioud end, is what makes up the cloud. These clusters of servers can Service is usually through a portal or website; let's use Dropbox be anywhere in the world as an example here. aoe | i — (Anatomy ofthe Cloud CS ‘Although the technology used in each ofthe cloud services youl access is a complexsystem of security, access, EXEGEID scanning. load balancing and performance, the basic principle is the same. Any loud service is simply adatacentre with hundreds of connected servers providing storage and processing power, designed fr easy accessto the public and businesses, Now take the basic anatomy ofthe entre structure and times that by several milion Thisis toa certain degree, the entire make-up ofthe world’s cloud services; each cloud provider offering space on its Custer of servers for storage virtualisation, telecoms, email and all other types of cloud services avaiable, sparc What is Cloud Computing?) Basic Consumer Cloud Services HOME CLOUDS Agile business models and elaborate disaster recovery plans aren't always at the forefront of what the average user wants from a cloud service. So what can the consumer expect? Microsoft and Apple all cater forthe home user with 568, ‘10GB or more, in some circumstances, of storage available ‘And it’ all accessed via a friendly, and easy to use, portal that integrates all your devices. ‘The second biggest consumer cloud service is email. Webmail has taken EMAIL ACCESS off in the last decade or so. moving nay fom traditional 5 or work-based email to offer the user an area where space is plenty and very few restrictions apply. Thanks to cloud services we IMS oR TSN no lnger have ta physically ‘own the music to which we listen. Music streaming services such as Spotify and Tunes, all offer the ability to push your musical choices to any device thats connected tothe company portal Looking for anew house? Most users will automatically ‘open up Google Maps, Bing ‘Maps, or Apple Maps to view their potential new home ~ and see just how big the back garden realy is Likewise, GPS from such sources as Here, Waze and OpenStreetMap are helping the consumer find their way around, MAPPING AND GPS Basic Consumer Cloud Services reali wthsacia Beingableto aces oro newoning bitedeesttahes — LEEAEERSESEDD somsine cues desktop remetey Shite people tht socal mea stipe to tase none isadoutdehered sevice ine sping tsadhud __toshae aaron oasis af net wh arelon ‘communications service (CAS), where users connect to others The likes of TeamViewer and other companies make this easy anche nforatonviaacewalseaceer poal-suchas WoughscoaiAsed sees Fact tar Netfixis by far the most Gaining in popularity is VPNAAS (Virtual streaming cloud-based a cloud-based service is used to hide a services In 2015, the company shut down its last datacentre user's IP address allowing them to gain access to content held and now adopts a 100% cloud-based structure, being wholly _in other countries. It'stil early days, but the service is growing reliant on Amazon's Web Services. even phones. Top Cloud Storage Providers ) Top Cloud Storage Providers eMac eeu meray Ree nur ACC nc eect CCM UEC uric eager e Ore CUCU EE Ee OE uC RU ctl offering the user or company awealth of Pe MEN geen con aren ee reer aun Onn IG Throughout this section we take an in- depth look at acollection of the top- rated cloud storage solutions, and see Meriter area Pee CR Acetate Pomme ert b FM raid one EPC Eee Eee ere 38__OneDrive Ter! coe ee 25 Top Cloud Storage Providers. ) Google Drive Cena CS ETUC REA raul raat) makes it one of the longest-running cloud storage solutions. It’s cross- EUR eNM CU Tulest UL) Google's other apps, and offers the Pee Cah ole relay RR ele RUC Tune eg ROUT ne acid cuss See a ete en ee ‘asynorym forthe Internet; with over 25 billion active accounts recorded in 2019, the service is set to grow Pesrne era eats tes oe aos ee ead company's cloud services, butt sts atthe core of everything, Back in 2018, Google announced that Drive had stored over re eon ee ee eres its numbers, but it di report hat. according to StatCounter, Drive now hosts nearly 10 trillion files; which is an impressive Pete eae eer eet er ees cones IN THE BEGINNING... ‘When the service launched back in 2012, criticisms were ‘aimed at the company’s storage polcy and Terms of Service. Essentially the language used granted Google the rights to reproduce, use and create derivative works from the content stored within Google Drive. It's worth noting thatthe policy ‘accepts thatthe orginal user retains intellectual property Fights. The privacy community and many others raised ‘concerns aver Google's rights tose the information and. data to create advertising and other services. MOVING ON “The service launched with support for Android Windows, and rmacO5 as aweb interface. Initially there was mediocre support for Li and although there was an app that could sync, ‘upload and so on to Drive from Linux computers sadly the app wasnt further developed and as sucht stopped functioning ‘once Gaogle started to update the Drive service 2014saw an overhaul of the web interface version of Google Dive with anew look nd significantly improved performance. Teaso simplified alot ofthe common tasks suchas adrag- ‘and-drop feature within Drive that enabled uses to move files within folders and such The functionality to download fils local from Googe Drive was alsa drastically improved allowing large esto be downloaded as multiple 268 compressed fles wth improved naming structures. Conclusion Grommet - (Google Drive Gl Honever the case did go fr Itwas later revealed that Google's oie cloud storage policies werent asbad as some from other companies And Google dd clr that despite the language used in the palcy the rights were in place to allow ito: move the files aroundits farms of geolocated serers cache the data for easy accesso the users and make image ‘thumbnails when viewing thefles Obvious since there are ‘nearly 10 lion fies now allegedly stored on Drive the policy hasntaffected those using the service. STORAGE ‘The amount of storage available on Google Drive was intially one ofits best selling points. When fst unleashed tothe public, Google Drives free 5GB of storage was significantly better than the competition, butt di take long for other cloud storage pravders to latch on tothe 5GB free model. ‘As the service matured, Google offered its users an unlimited rhumber of photos at a maximum of 16 megapisels, and videos at a maximum resolution of 1080p, for free, using the High-Quality setting in Google Photos - which is shared space fram Google Drive and Gmail If auser reverted tothe Original Quality setting then the Google Drive quota would start counting the megabytes used Youcan fora price increase the storage available, 1568 for free is sil reasonably okay, but if youre using Google Drive for active backups, and storing ats of Gmail content, ure likely to start eachin 20068 thelimis ° me Forthe princely sum af around 29,99 per month though, ‘you can opt for the maximum consumer storage limit of 3078 (terabytes), which should keep the average user happy for quite some time fee Ree Re Ua eet CO ace teeter ey easy to see why though, with its Internet presence, huge Pon ee Ne Cae Celt aCe rea ee ere CM uceM emt Cn necme ace raed tis remains the top consumer cloud option. stan BRS) 1p cloud Storage Providers ) MediaFire @ Pertermane 7 cosomizat E Dawes Uptond opt scat nemos 5 oasis Testa ed 617.06 MB 370 ea 999.98 GB From3,166tal les | Since November 11,2013 Including Rover Banden ‘Account Details rs Display Name: Becky Meda EmailAdivess: —_beclymedafre@gmlcom (sie Launched in 2006 as an Online Backup Service, and based in Texas, MediaFire has proved itself to be one of the founding cloud storage providers. Now with over 150 CTC res Ca ECR Ue i Clg a ea company is continually adapting and improving its services. alii eben cu Ae Stone Lats tne toa free cloud storag e r rest another solution inp ‘SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE Essentially MediaFire offers a barebones approachto its coud storage soliton There's 10GB free plan availble butwith ‘some referral options such as Tweeting the serie, you can upgrade the amount of re storage to 5068, Upload speeds are very fast, mainly due tothe compary using _geolocation servers but also the fact that its not as congested, ‘as Google Drive or Dropbox - despite the big companies, having more servers available worldwide. ‘The compary stated with a desktop client that could upload ‘sync downoad and so on However support forthe app became costly sonowituses ambit and web cent to access the user files Nevertheless a desktp appsritadeal- PRICING ‘The intial 1068 is fre, but there are Pro and Business options available. The Pro option features 17B of storage the ability to ‘download entire folders, share file, password protection and. ‘more, and is avaliable for $3.75 per month “The Business option i quite surprising, asit offers upto 100TB ‘of storage fra maximum of 100 users and costs ust $40 per month For this yougetallthe features that Pr offers plus the _adtional 100 users customisable branding anda detailed securitylog Conclusion breaker; mary users prefer to opt fora simple web interface or mobil over somethinginsalled on their desktop The mobile applets you automaticaly upload, and backup, photos andvideos tothe MediaFire servers, after which youre able to preview them, The maximum upload filesize is adecent 2068 so unless you've gota sizeable video le in higher resolutions you should be good to go However worth mentioning that the service doesrit include any form of onine office sit, such as with Microsofts OneDrive and Google Drive And it lacks third-party integration with other apps so youll need to maruallyupload any les created through an office suite mo \ suse sae MediaFire may not have the feature-rich capabilities of Google Drive, or some of the other cloud storage service available; however, it's cheap and straightforward to use. Dea -Soe aR ae UCSC BRC from mobile or web, and has good consistent upload speeds, then MediaFire is certainly worth exploring, The bad points are: mediocre collaboration options, built-in office suite, desktop client, and limited sharing capabilities - and the free version does contain adverts. Although there are misses, with a little work, you're able to get SOGB of free storage as a backup, using this simple but effective cloud service. stan Top Cloud Storage Providers.) Sync.com See Ceeue Century that was founded in 2011 by Thomas Savundra, Suhan Shan and Darius PURO CEN Con eC CE privacy-friendly, easy to use cloud Reece Can eee tC Cee ce ried SEIU UD Rel el LoL tere UT DE UEUT eee UrRUEUT AC} Elen aR UN Ane Keep your files, safe, secure and 100% private ‘customer flder ‘Staff oer Sc eee) Eee eta eta solution, while offering the user a Paneer! Pare eens ee ee pe Teas es Persotg erm Pee ees personal data within Sync’ higher-level encryption cloud. There's no upload or download limits onthe free option, no third-party tracking, and fle versions and recovery are limited to 30-days, You can additionally, password protect, ‘your files and create password protected sharing along, ree ne Curr ee aed coe ares Se ee Borers at Piece ee) Cretan reat es company's tight approach to security, there's no APL or third-party access Pree ees arts ese ea ees eee etch LEST} ‘manually upload files and content created within these office suites to eo cuCon! Manage Shard SECURITY ‘Thebig selling point with Synccomis the aforementioned heightened security. The service incorporating the free option, includes At Rest encryption and In-Tansit encryption tothe ‘une of AES 256-bit- meaning a brute force attack to gain ‘accesso the contents ofthe encrypted files would take @ ‘maier computer the curent age ofthe universe to crack around 139 billion years. ‘Added to that isthe two factor authentication, acompary policy of ro knowledge (no knowiedge of whatsstredin the ‘service, andit benefits rom Canadian privacy laws, so your datas protected by aw and not allowed tobe accessedby the Uke ofthe Patriot Act whichis activein the US. ‘Another interesting featureis the service's versioning control, ‘that wl etyou rollback any changes tafe fr up to 30 days (more if you use the pay for services). Any corruption toa fle, cetherby accident or design (suchas malware) canbe reverted toa previusversion i necessary. Personal Cloud $0 Conclusion PRICING Higher grade storage solutions through Synccom are available through diferent levels of pricing There are Personal and Pro Sola options, for S60 and $96 per year respectively that offer upto 20068 for the Personal and 278 for the Pro Solo. Other advantages apply tothe subscription plans such as unlimited transfer limits, 120-day and 365-day file version control and advanced sharing and collaboration features. Theres also a Sync Pro st of plans for business users: Sola at $10 per month, Teams frm $5 per month (based on per user, and Enterprise from $20 per month again based on per user. The storage limits increase dramaticaly wth each Plan from 3B forthe Sol. upto 20TB forthe Teams, anda Custom storage option forthe Enterprise plan Needless to say, the business lst of features includes everything the other payment plans offer and more; with core features such as 99.9% uptime year-long or custom level file version and recavery, and increased levels of bath live and phone suppor. Personal $60 ‘Sync.com is an interesting cloud storage solution: While Reece eM Ue cL MUR ee LC does have some excellent features that are wellworth considering, For the personal consumer, the 5GB of storage may feel alittle low, but the higher than normal levels of security and privacy make it worth exploring. ae aura EU Peau Co ea cucu emu Peet et Catt Top Cloud Storage Providers : MEGA MEGA Storage was Carats acy as PE UROL Le eee ere CeCeeU ere were shut down due to copyright ty cue ere eee Evie Tee Eom) SCE UC Rar UU eRe Cn er emu CLES respected privacy-based cloud arom Pee ee ce eee ac geo) suffered any bad press since Dotcom split. In fact it's quite the opposite, thanks to the service's policy of zero-knowledge of what’s stored onits servers, heavy encryption, two-factor authentication and utilising the user's password as the root pan ee ee ee ee Pees ets “GN enhanced security, as well as the other benefits and. atures the cloud storage service offers Primary on the list of features isa decent 50GB of free storage available; there are Pro and Business payment plans ‘on offer, but more on them ina minute, MEGA offers speedy eee ce tects large iles and folders; there's a Chat function built-in, whereby a user can start fully end-to-end encrypted chat. session with any contacts they've added to MEGA: there's a MEGAbird add-on for Mozilla Thunderbird that enables you ‘to send larger than normal files with Full encryption, and ‘there's even a MEGAcmad Feature which is command-line tool thal allow you to ereate backups and other Peer ‘The list of features doesrit stop there. You're able to preview photos and play videos stored in your user area and there's a Ona tes eee) Sea mem Coe st) Cee Pee ei ote pe oy Perini ieee se een ne toupload offce-created documents to the cloud eras ENCRYPTION & SECURITY ‘As we've mentioned, heightened levels of security and privacy are chief among thelist of features that MEGA offers As you ‘would expect from the service founder’ point of view. privacy issomething MEGA takes very seriously and admittedly it ‘does a good job of ittoo ‘Secured with AES 256-bit end-to-end encryption all throughput between MEGA andits desktop app are private The contents within your cloud storage area are fully encrypted, and therefore private The user’ password being the raat encryption your password i you lose your password, youve lost your stored dat). The chat function isfuly encrypted, and there's the abiltyo create encrypted shared folders. IF auser wishes to share data with anther user he encrypts the required encryption keys with the recipients pubickey before ‘transmitting them Their key fngerprnts canbe verted through an independent channel to ensure the identity of the recipient. Ary change triggers an alarm eliminating the rk of impersonation through apos-verfcation marin the middle attack Itmay soundlike something froma spy movie, but you oy is private ~ro one at MEGA has accesso, orcan access, have to applaud MEGA's use of enhanced privacy. PRICING ‘Theres upto 50GB available for free, providing you participate in an achievement program, and from there you ‘can opt for varying levels of a Pro account fr individuals. “These star with ro Lite at £4.28 per month, Pro Lat £8.57/ manth, Pro ILat £1715/month.and Pro II a £2573/ ‘month. Each Pro level increases the available storage and ‘transfers from 20068 to 8TB, “The Business pln offers athree-user license at DLO per user but with unimited storage and transfers together with more team sharing features and abilties builtin tothe service There's a lot to like about MEGA, but there are also some OTC CLC Cu un on CALORIC Ce CELLU d CU Cue eet Ce RU elie aT rescue UC fn CoML NRO Can un ROE EAC! POreaek natu cMtnaar) Re Tuan eure cum) Ce Se Ua ee Ae he was/is accused of, then you're getting a PEE aCe Conclusion There's also an issue with free storage. According to some Peirce cor gat eR CUna Tt cits cc Minette urd PU eC RON mau a eer ancy having our account before this became a policy — one to look Breoageren On the whole, MEGA is a good cloud storage service with excellent levels of encryption and privacy. There are cheaper alternatives but at the cost of lower privacy: Top Cloud Storage Providers ) Dropbox peetenetcict| SE Wc Ua ey Deer Ee aura yy Dawes) Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, and EEE Ue Ure Now valued at well over $10 billion, EU Recta ttt) (igel te) Crum ClO) Mt ceeeca CeCe DTC Cem RC) aC Rieter ae URC Cg Serer erred eae een ered daily, which i probably why it’s considered as one of the best cloud storage solutions available today. However, it's been Pee eee a eae Core eer ee eae eer Rt eee een cy ‘the fact thatit doesn't employ azero-knowledge policy. It's not the most privacy friendly cloud service it's been blocked. in China since 2014, and it's not the cheapest or best cloud, service available. So why do so many people use it? Se eee ee oe ee Pee enue et nee eens PC a eee ea tat) Microsoft Office there are extensions available for other office suites, and ithas excellent sync options. In short, it works well. and when a product works wel onthe fron ine, eee a eae et Collaboration isa big hit for Dropbox’ business side of the service, andits recent extension of features and abilities has Pee eee ee ey business cloud storage solution Dropbox’ prices can vary, but essential you get 268 of free storage, with the abilty to upgrade to plus at 2TB for £799 per month, and to Professional at 3TB for £1658 per month. The business options range from Standard at 5TB for £12.50 per month, to Advanced at custom storage for £15.49 per month, and finally Enterprise, which is ‘where youl need to contact Dropbox fr pricing ‘ts notthe best pricing around, but i’ also not too bad either. With these plans you get encryption, sharing, Paper and other features, and they're gradually increased with each plan asthe price increases FEATURES Dropbox underwent abit ofa facelift a year or so ago, dropping some ofits older features, and hiding others behind renamed ‘elements or within obscure comers of its service. What youre leftwith now are some fnely-tuned features that present your ‘workin the best light and allow ito be shared and workedt on ‘throughaut your teams and colleagues. Dropbox Filesis the main storage area, where you as an individual and a company wil drop’ all your files and folders. Back in 2017, Dropbox withdrew the ability to drag and drop ‘entire folders from its web interface, which meant you'd have to create a folder onthe web interface, then drag and drop the files from your computer into the newly created folder. ‘The other alternative was touse the desktop client But, due to overwhelming feedback, the company reinstated the feature later in 2018, sonow you can drag and drop folders to the web interface, but oly ane folder ata time. Dropbox Phatos was another feature that was subtly dropped inthe big 2018 update andis stil sorely missed by users today The ability to view albums individual images and pictures and reveal a timelines of images was one that we, ‘and mary other users reall liked ‘about Dropbox. The service has since been integrated into the Files section but has iostts viewing and. timeline elements, Dropbox Papers the nex biggest feature of the service and one that was present inthe past but pushed tothe back Since 2018, Paper has been thrust forward and has become ‘one ofthe service's best collaboration tools Paper isa lightweight, cloud based collaboration space a flexible workspace fr teams to create, review Dropbox 5 and manage documents and ideas. kindof shared word processor, where you can create meeting notes and project templates. It works exceedingly wll ands one of the most used features of the entire service. ‘Transfers a feature that allows you to send large file that don't require any cllaboration. For example, f you have a file too large for email to send to aremote colleague, you can upload itto Tansfr, set an expiry dat, then copy the generated lnk to email to the colleague. The colleague an then quickly gain access to the Transfer service and download the file themselves. After the specified time, the fle is deleted ‘The last feature is Showease, where you can share your work with partners and clients on a single page. Youcan guide people through your content, add your own branding, and automatically kep track of wha views, downloads, and comments, Lam | vet ne bas Customer Proposal op Pee etic ee petals Ne UE eR CUR CCC UE ee CTC une ec aU aOR Rote Pron ec er Cr nme cates a Ue eS ROE CeCe Ot CRUE RU EU Cte kU UCU CEU COC PRU Ree eT erates alla Conclusion nnn CE Top Cloud Storage Providers) pCloud Hone | Sere Yew tarane =i... |= matt cy toe BT | ae it orgie ‘Automatic Upload (pba © Be > proud Dave > Pictues > TaVideos > toad Disk (C3 > ~pCtoud Dive) © ~ pctoud Drive) > Automatic Upload 1B cypto Folder > Googie Drive 1 My Music My Petes My Videos According to pCloud, over 10 milion users have switched to them from their former cloud services, People who work atthe ere ue ee er Sons erreur Cerner Peele ee erate ape grees ene tee ead similar to that of Windows Explorer and it's ineredibly quick to browse around as well as upload and download. Otherwise, itoffers an enhanced backup and storage area for youto, Cet ee eeee| POMC en eee EO eee eee ee oe Pea et cet acre eee add-on for Firefox and even a Lightroom Plug-in pCloud Pater eaten Seu nt ate Founded in 2013 this Swiss-based cloud service has fast become one of the most highly rated in the market. It's easy to use, has a large, initial, free storage capacity, and some PCr aU Rl ee -croe Culact ce tam x= a2 a 2 Dore ee fewre e Bsa ver seaton Sate oy ew pen 1B Search Cloud Drie(™) a mo My Music My Pures My Videos Socal Tucker Shared coe ee aed acts asa type of network drive to keep everything in syne croc! There's alot of ather good features too, such as fle Peer nt eerste atm tec ry the free model, and 30-days inthe paid subscription models with the option to extend fil versioning to 365-days. File sharing is available for individual les and folders, and you're able to manage the shares you've created from the desktop eee Security is handled via TLS/SSL encryption both to and from ‘you and the pCloud servers. Plus the content you upload to Cloud is stored on at least three, separate server locations to provide geo-redundancy The only downside to security is ( pCloud PRICING pCloua's pricing is very reasonable and offers something we dori often see fom a cloud service provider You get 1068 of storage available for ree when you signup, but you can upgrade that tothe Premium 500G8 plan for £399 per month. ‘Alternatively there's a Premium Plus plan availabe for £799, per month that offers 278 of storage But hold on pCloud also offer a Lifetime plan witha saving of 658 across bath of the subscription madels For a £175 one- ‘ime payment, youcan have S00GB of storage, and for a£350 ‘one-time payment, you can have the ZTB plan. There's also a Cloud Famiy option thal give upto fe users access to the 2TB storage for a one-off payment of £500. Finally theres business plan, but youl need to contac the pCloud sales division to chat about your requirements and payment. With regard tothe pCloud Cypio added extra: youre looking at amanthly fee of £499, ora fetime on-off payment of £125. "175 "350 etc ta) eT Duct | a life as Windows Live Teta arate Panu Pecan aC eens BORSA O EEL eee auth ura cciee adding new features and integrating Ret Cee ae RAT improving its overall UI. The SkyDrivenamewas dropped in 2014 due toalawsuit Tags, which uses AL to separate each image into sections like involving BskyB, for using the word Sky. The high courtruled people, buildings, food, technology, animals and soon, that Microsoft had breached BskyB's trademark, and as such, the Redmond Company redesigned its cloud service together Sharing is a simple process of right-clicking a file or folder Creer and selecting the Share option, From there, you simply add the email address ofthe recipient and OneDrive will send Initially, Microsoft offeredits free users 10GB of storage, _ them an email withthe link provided, Managing access to the ee eo eee NU ie are ace redesigned in 2015, the amount dropped to SGB of storage _with individuals and teams. ee Cee ee od changed as the service began to incorporate the entire Office Thanks tothe integration with Office 365, you're able to. Ecce erent right-lick anywhere within the OneDrive area and create er ene de ee eee ea eee Despite the drop in storage, OneDrive has matured to become PowerPoint, OneNote, and even Forms and plain text possibly the best cloud storage service available. There are documents. Picking one ofthe Office apps will open an online plenty of features associated with OneDrive onits own, but version of the software, which will automatically save to when you factor in Office 365, you get one of the most OneDrive, so you don't even need to have Office installed on comprehensive cloud solutions we've ever seen, Pome ee oe ere ee eee ey ee eee eT Cet en eo net nad pe ee ee cr eee eee eee ‘much like browsing through Windows Explorer. The Photos authentication in place here alongside other security section lets you browse all the images in your cloud area, processes, and for free users, youre abl to store a maximum detailing them asatimeline by default but with the option to of three files - whereas that number is unlimited for Renee neem ene ee eee ec PRICING ‘Asstated, you get SGB free storage only initially That can be upgraded to 10068 for £1.99 per month, but you won't _get an Office 365 license with those options. On the flip side, you do get access to Office for the web, which means ypu still beable to use Word, Excel and so on from within ‘OneDrive and from officecom - and its worth noting that, ‘the online versions of Word etc are only missing a few features over their installed counterparts. For £5999 per year you get Office 365 Personal which gives you TB of storage on OneDrve plus licence for Office 365 Tor Windows or macOS, as well as improved features beyond ‘the free option. Moving up. for £7999 per year there's Office 365 Home, which allows upto si uses to install and use Office 365 while also giving them 1TB of storage in OneDrive each. Conclusion Microsoft gets a lot of bad press, RoR Meru tesa ROR ache anu lg used operating system and service Aen aN reacts about the Redmond Company, or of its actions in the'past; yourmust adimit per ieur Se Ca eee eee tte BOS ML ee eMC Dr ieceieoe et Rr Ur eRe ata ultimately opt for the subscription CUE eb R AUIS Cheer reaccrt etic: Een ieee Top Cloud Storage Providers) iCloud rvrveeacaatt | PEEMEUU Tau) October 2011 as BUTE oo Coco) Te UN Pree eer ieee! service, MobileMe. Thanks to Apple's Re euCue ce tg cs eC Mme) et CMR RL Coe the service was boasting a user base of over 20 million after just one Pee cea ans 2. Soe Cee cen aerate eg for other companies to try and attain, iCloud is one of technology's greatest success stories, andit's not difficult to Pe ee eer cao system that runs on some ofthe world’s most expensive computers, why nat seamlessly incorporate a cloud service Ste eee The big step for Cloud came when Apple made it available to use via an iTunes update, which quickly led to tens of millions cof users within days ofthe launch. Asa consequence, Peer eens ate ee Pee ner eat eee resources int the service, making it one ofthe most Pee a eect ed years and has since settled ona look that like much of Apple's world, greatly resembles i0S. Another good move by or nag eee userbase wor't get confused when they see something Pres Tee eee ete cee ety offered 5GB of free storage. and you can upload va the web interface or through the iloud Drive folder on your Apple device. However, the power of iCloud doesn't end with Peer eeu eet Sere Find my Mac or find my Phone, iCloud Photos allows you to, COCs eee ee ae rey byright-clicking and selecting Share, where you can optto send alink via email, message and so on. Messages are Peta tenet Lette tars Ue Le ae Crea Non-Apple users could be forgiven for thinking that iCloud is ‘only available for Apple devices, however, the Cupertino Company realised aversion of iCloud for Windows in ‘mid-2019, which is now available from the Windows 10 Store iCloud PRICING {Cloud doesrit offer much in storage, such as with OneDri increasing subscription models. However, Apple's ‘Cloud payment plans ae ver Penny then £2.48 per month for 20068, and finaly month for 2TB of storage.

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