10 Ways to Start Taking Advantage of Cloud Storage

Investing in cloud computing is a good option as a lot can be shared, collaborated and stored for the use of all your links, employees and benefits. You can store your data not just locally, but remotely for a wide array of uses.

Below are 10 ways to start taking advantage of cloud computing solutions.

1.   Set Up Remote Access To Your Computer

You can use your PC as a personal cloud by setting up a remote access on it. Just install a small server application on your personal computer. You can avail the server from LogMeIn that provides free server software for Windows and MAC OS X devices.

2.    Access Data From Your Phone

You can get a dedicated way of accessing data on your mobile device as well. With various free apps available for Android, Windows, iOS platforms, you can remotely access, share and transfer content from anywhere. Tonido is one free app that runs on iOS, Windows and Android to allow you to remotely access your data over WiFi or 3G.

3.   Sync Your Music

Amazon Cloud Drive and Google Play Music are ideal for syncing your music files. If music occupies most of your storage, which you also might need for other stuffs, you should store it on cloud. If you buy your music from Amazon, it automatically gets stored on the Amazon Cloud Drive. However, if you purchase the cloud storage service starting 20/year for 20GB, you get unlimited space for your music that can be streamed on any device, anywhere.

4.  Secure Your Confidential Data

CertainSafe is what you need to secure your professional content that you need to access remotely. CertainSafe provides you encrypted cloud storage for an extremely secure remote access. You can sign up for it for $8.77 per month per user.

5.  Use it for Business Collaboration

CX, which is now only available as a paid service, is a cloud-based syncing tool. It starts at $9.99 a year to provide excellent storage and collaboration solutions for business systems.

6.   Sync Your Local Network And Get a Lot of Useful Apps

Dropbox has a certain advantage over most other cloud services. It enables LAN sync for fast syncing files over a local area network, and it offers a wide array of useful apps that use the Dropbox API.

7.   Create & Edit Office Documents

Using SkyDrive or Google Drive, you can remotely access, create and edit Office documents, presentations and spreadsheets. Moreover, Google Drive automatically integrates your Google Docs that do not use your computer’s storage.

8.  Secret Business Collaborations

Box, which is yet another paid cloud-based storage, offers file syncing for a paid business or an enterprise plan. Its recently upgraded iOS app offers 50GB free space for users.

9. Backup photos and Videos from Facebook

You can use iDrive for fast syncing, huge storage and powerful web interface. Besides, it comes with its highlighting feature that enables you to back up photos and videos from your Facebook account.

10.  Back Up Unlimited Data

The best use of any cloud storage is to enable you to create backups without curbing storage on your personal computers. Bitcasa is one service that allows you to back up an infinite amount for $99 per month.