Here’s How You Stop Cloud Storage Insanity From Spreading – CrossCloud
Have you always wished that you could unite all of your cloud storage in one place? CrossCloud is your dream come true.
This Week’s Best In Beta: Soundninja And Keupy
I have never heard a One Direction or Taylor Swift song.
Practical Magic – ccGenie Turns Email Into The Work Tool We’ve Always Wanted
It delivers our messages, our files, our links. It is the foundation of our communication online. It travels wherever we ask it to. It cooperates with as many useful apps and project platforms as we ask of it. It is the most reliable and versatile work tool that we have. Yet, we call it a mess and….
Going Paperless 101
Most people don’t aim to rid their office of every single scrap of paper, but going paperless or at least reducing the amount of paper you need and use is a highly beneficial process, whether you’re a fully-fledged business in an office space, or a sole trader working from a dusty corner at home…
Is Your Data Really Safe When You Use An Online Backup System?
Technological advances that allow us to all take fantastic high-resolution photos and make movies for business purposes have a downside. The files for these artistic creations are very large and eat up storage space on your computer and mobile devices. Enter Cloud Computing’s online backup system…
If You’re Ready To Be Up In The Clouds, Shared Has The Space For You
I have a MacBook Air. While I love my little paper-thin computer that weighs less than a full water bottle, I really can’t store anything on it. I have an external hard drive that has like, five more times storage space than my computer but the couple of days last month when I thought I’d lost it made me…
Wanna Send Huge Files In 4 Seconds? Minbox Is Freaking Fast
I hate when I’m trying to send a funny video to a friend and I get the friendly reminder that”this file’s too large to upload”. And then I think of the hassle it is to upload to sites like Dropbox, and the whole video-sending plan is abandoned. If only there was a way to send files of any size in seconds…
Minimizing New Startup Costs (5 Easy Methods)
Keeping the costs of starting a business down doesn’t require a lot of effort. Instead, entrepreneurs are better served by being aware of the multitude of cost cutting opportunities available at every step of the startup process. Below are 5 easy methods to minimize your new startup costs…
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One of the best things about being a writer is the flexibility of where and when I work. I can be on a beach in Thailand, a hotel in New York, or a coffee shop in London (yes please!), as long as I have my dear friend Wi-Fi. But, what if you’re a frequent tablet-using traveler who needs the same flexibility…
C’mon Baby Light The Analytic Fires – Ignite Your Success With HeatSync
Too. Much. Info. You’ve got social media numbers such as likes and follows, geographic information, analytics, API data, and individual reports. Great. But how do you make data useful? How do you take advantage of information in a timely and effective manner. A new startup in beta, HeatSync, looks to…
MIT Business Plan Winner ($100K) And Y Combinator Alum Anand Dass Shares His Startup Secrets
What does the winner of the MIT $100K business plan competition do with the winnings and plan? Launch Filepicker.io of course! Anand Dass, Filepicker.io’s cofounder has created a startup that connects any web or mobile application to the cloud while achieving four times faster uploads. Imagine building an…
Egnyte Founder Keeps Recent $16 Million In Funding In Perspective
Egnyte is a large enterprise, hybrid cloud storage startup. In a crowded, highly-competitive field (Nirvanix, Zetta), the company already claims over a million users throughout 30,000 paying companies. And they might grow much bigger very soon. Egnyte recently raised $16 million from Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Polaris Venture Partners. Financing isn’t the only story though.
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BoxCryptor.com – Encrypt Your Files
A provider of encryption services for files that are hosted on the cloud, Box Cryptor uses the AES-256 standard in order to guarantee the safety of all the data that it processes.
Box Cryptor works by storing data in an arbitrary directory that is synced to the cloud, IE Box Cryptor works a bit like a virtual hard drive. Whenever you instruct it to encrypt anything, then it does so on the fly and stores the resulting files on the cloud. And when you want to read them, then it has everything decrypted in real time.
Box Cryptor is a paid service, but a free version can be downloaded on the site. It will do for trial purposes more than adequately – it can handle up to 2 GB of information.
To work, Box Cryptor requires Windows and the .NET Framework 2.0, but support for Linux and Mac OS X is achieved via EncFS-compatibility.
ZumoDrive.com – Hybrid Cloud Storage
A service that has been around for quite some time now, and which has finally become available to everybody, ZumoDrive stands as a storage solution whereby you can keep all your files and media in the cloud. The tagline of this application is actually “Cloud storage that feels local”, and its programmers aim to make it come true by offering instant access to your files wherever you are.
As well as acting as a solution for accessing your files wherever you are, such a tool is also practical if you want to keep your information backed up and safe from system failures and crashes.
One of the most noteworthy features at play is that you can have all you data and information on every device, regardless of how much space it actually has.
In order to use ZumoDrive, you have to install it on each device that you want to access and then it is as if your files were available in all of them. Moreover, the information is backed up, so that if anything goes astray you can recoup in no time at all.
If that sounds good to you and you wish to learn about pricing and so forth, pay the site a visit and see if this hybrid cloud storage is the next step for you, and the next home for your data.
