Posts Tagged ‘google cloud connect’

Better collaboration

09.20.2011

When you have a document you’re working on, and you want some input from other interested folks, cloud computing can save your bacon! If you’re wondering how you can better collaborate with your family, with your coworkers, with your clientele, with your vendors — take a look at this example and see how cloud computing makes many things possible and most things easier.

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Four ways to protect your stuff using Cloud Tactics

09.2.2011

You have many options for protecting your documents from corruption, including spare hard drives, burning DVDs for storage in your safety deposit box, redundant computer systems, and more. Storage is cheap these days, so why not handle your own backups?

Imagine having to allocate the resources to manage a team of professionals who do nothing but implement and track backups, clones, file-copies, encryption, security, and more, all day long, wrestling with hardware and infrastructure issues that would make your teeth curl. Yikes!

Here’s the good news: those professionals are already out there in the cloud, and they’ve already got the infrastructure and support staff in place, to boot. The best part is they’re offering their services to you for free or cheap, and only a couple of clicks away. All you have to do is leverage their expertise.

Here are four big players offering cloud tactics that can help you back up your stuff with minimal or no investment on your part.

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