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You Better Own Your Cloud
by Andrew McCaskey
No Matter How Fine
No Matter how trustworthy – no matter how convenient – the cloud gives and the cloud can take away. There is lots of emerging enthusiasm for the Google GDrive. Just like GMail, it’s going to be incredibly convenient and versitile. Just remember that it is not the place where you want to have as a single point of failure for anything that might be important to you. Anything that is uniquely yours, that aggregates hundreds of hours of work, your contact information stores, or memories that your future will value above all else, that’s the digital stuff that we are talking about.
Family photos, videos and business contacts and agreements or resources are too important to entrust to local hardware alone. A crash on your local drive or fire at your business is one risk for loss of data, so offsite storage without administration hassle or expense is tempting.
The convenience factor is substantial, and the advantages of being able to pull business and personal data from some arbitrary machine wherever you happen to be located is a powerful siren call. It’s going to take substantial willpower not to be lulled into a sense of security – but resist you must. Because any cloud based service that can be given, can be taken away. And any data that you have carefully or casually stored into that cloud.
One of the most intriguing products of CES was a device, less than $100 called the Pogoplug. Pogoplug will enable you to place an arbitrary USB drive – or portions of it – as an addressable IP device. Select a 500GB or 1TB drive, make it a portion of your network, then physically position a similar unit at another family member’s home. Use the cloud freely and enjoy the convenience and flexibility. Just make sure that once every few hours there is a sweep of your new data to your counterpart, and their new data to you.
That’s into a cloud that you control and manage both physically and administratively.
Make some plans, use the new GDrive Cloud, but just remember to sweep up behind yourself.
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