Cloud storage providers are aware that businesses grow, which is why there are sliding scales of storage available. With an easy to install interface and no intrusive hardware or training needed to be given, cloud storage is both easy to implement and cheap to run.

Using cloud storage is more than just a means of backup:

• By using cloud storage to house your files you can share business documents with all your staff without having to email them out. Saving both time and effort.
• You can work collaboratively with employees by encouraging them to make additions to files even when out of the office.
• Employees can access files stored in the cloud from any internet ready device at anytime. This will enable employees to take advantage of travel time, rather than count them as lost hours.
• Employers can password protect access to their most important folders to ensure they aren’t at risk of malicious employees looking to cause harm. Whilst we don’t ever like to think that those we employ could turn on us it does happen and businesses need to prepare for these possibilities.
• Automated backup means that business owners no longer have to rely on employees to backup their files. Automated backup can be scheduled to backup your files up as frequently as you require.
• Employees with access to the cloud can make their office anywhere they have internet access. This ability can make for a much more dynamic and versatile workforce. It can also help to lower overheads for small companies. Your own office is unnecessary when you can make anywhere with internet your office.

The security of your files is paramount when running a business of any size. Cloud storage can not only ensure the safety of your files but also make your team much more versatile and dynamic.

Households no longer have one shared PC, instead you have a PC, 2 work laptops, a tablet and an assortment of mobile phones. Automated backup can ensure that all these devices backup to the same cloud with no manual effort required. Ensuring the safety of all your files and folders is imperative in the 21^st century. Accidents happen, theft occurs and loss of devices or files is an eventuality, but the severity of the outcome can be limited thanks to cloud storage.

Everything which is backed up can be restored.

Sharing Files:

Families can take advantage of the ease at which you can share files using cloud storage to keep in touch with children who are away at college or family members who live out of state or abroad. Rather than having to email multiple files individually or in groups to family members, which is both time consuming for the sender and the receiver, you can send them one email with a URL on it. This will give them full access to all the files you want them to see.

Cloud storage is the easiest way for student away at college to keep in touch with their parents or for families to send pictures of their holiday to grandparents. Videos, documents and photographs can all be accessed in the same way.

Storage:

Collaboration is much easier when families store their documentation in a cloud. Let’s say you were planning a holiday or making your Christmas lists. Individual family members can all upload their suggestions to the cloud to make decision making more of a collaborative effort. Cloud storage is great because you can upload photos and videos, reviews and details for everyone to see. Cloud storage also comes in useful when on a family holiday too. All photos can be uploaded immediately meaning SD cards can be freed up to be used again and all important travel documents can also be stored securely just in case paper versions are lost or damaged in transit.

Keeping the kids happy:

Digital devices are great at keeping kids entertained on long journeys or while waiting in a queue. By storing an assortment of films and videos in the cloud you can access them anytime, anywhere via any internet ready device. Tablets with access to your cloud storage provider are a prime example of this. Through your cloud you can choose a film to play out to keep your children happy whilst on a long car journey. It will make for a more peaceful journey all round.

Cloud Storage is perfect for the whole family.

Films:
Bored on long journeys or need something to entertain the kids with while sat waiting for something? The cloud can help. By storing film files in your cloud you can access them, anytime, anywhere via any internet ready device.

eBooks:
Much like PCs and Laptops there is nothing to say your kindle or eBook reader won’t fail, be stolen or get lost. Backing up your eBooks to your cloud will keep them safe from ever truly being gone if the worst were to happen. Cloud storage can ensure you will always know what happens at the end.

Magazines:
Are your environmentally conscious? Or hate carrying the extra weight of your favourite magazine when you travel? Well cloud storage can solve this. By purchasing digital versions of your favourite magazine you not only save a tree or two but you also no longer need to carry weighty magazines around with you. They, much like your films and pictures, can be accessed anytime, anywhere via your laptop or tablet PC. Cloud storage makes time pass faster when traveling from A to B.

Share In Real Time:
Cloud storage enables people who are members of the same cloud to share files in real time. This is perfect for example if you are trying to buy a house, a car or a gift for a friend and your partner or spouse can’t make it. By taking the snaps on your mobile phone you can upload them to the cloud and your partner will have access from wherever he/she is instantly. Unlike texting or tweeting them an image at a time, they will have access to them all in one go.

Cloud storage fulfills an assortment of consumer needs by both keeping digital items safe but also by allowing you to share files with members of your cloud and friends and family with ease. This is perfect for wedding lists, wish lists, Christmas, holidays and anything else which involves collaboration and resolution.

Cloud Storage Perks For Business Travelers:

Cloud storage has revolutionized the way in which business men and women can utilise their working hours. No longer are hours traveling from A to B wasted because you can’t access the files you need or need a plug for your laptop on a train.

• Cloud storage is accessible anywhere, anytime via any internet ready device. This means you can access files you created in the office via your mobile phone, laptop or tablet PC. Backing the up isn’t an issuer either as syncing your devices to the cloud means they all backup to the same place.
• Cloud storage is a one stop shop for all your files if on the road. While backing up needs internet service, files created offline will still be backed up as part of the automated backup as soon as internet connection is resumed.
• Businesses benefit from cloud storage by being able to create a much more dynamic workforce. Utilizing travel hours by being able to access office based documents on the go means that rather than wasting time transferring files from device to device or from USB stick to PC you can access them immediately through your user interface.

Cloud Storage Perks For Those Who Are Globetrotting:

Cloud storage is the best way for those who are traveling for pleasure to keep their travel documentation safe and share their files with friends and family.

• Backing up your photos to a cloud storage provider not only keeps your SD cards free from becoming storage devices themselves but also protects your files from being damaged or lost. Hard drives and laptop are cumbersome and take up unnecessary weight limits and space in your bag when traveling the globe. Cloud storage can be accessed through an application accessible via any internet ready device so you can backup to your cloud as and when you find internet.
• Keeping copies of your travels documents safe in your cloud is a great way to ensure trouble free travels. Paper copies can easily be damaged or lost.
• Traveling is all about the experience. But it is the sharing it with others which makes the memories last a lifetime. Uploading your photos to a cloud storage provider allows you to grant access to your friends and family back home so they can keep up to date with what you have been up to. In exchange family members who have cloud storage can grant you access to their clouds so you don’t miss out on developments in their lives, whilst you are away.

Cloud Benefits For Students:

• Cloud Storage keeps your files safe. Computers helped make ‘Miss, my dog ate my homework’ an excuse of the past and now cloud storage can do the same for ‘But Miss, my computer crashed.’ Cloud storage can protect your files from hard drive failure, accidental deletion and theft.
• Books run out of pages and USB sticks run out of space. Cloud storage is infinite, which means you can do as much work as you need without ever having to consider how much room you have to store it.
• Lighten the load. Files stored in the cloud can be accessed via any internet ready device which means in order to do your presentation or share work with your friends you don’t have to drag your laptop and external hard drive to school or college. Instead you can access everything you need via an internet ready devise.

It is true that cloud storage limits the excuses you have for not completing your homework or forgetting your work, but education is important and cloud storage lightens the load and makes things more interesting.

Cloud Benefits For Teachers:

• Just because you are a teacher doesn’t mean that’s always what you are. Cloud storage can allow you to store the different aspects of yourself, personal and professional, in separate folders on the same cloud. It makes for a much simpler life and if necessary allows you to bring a little of your personal life into your professional.
• Dazzle your pupils with multimedia designed lessons. Presentations and videos planned and sourced on your home PC can be accessed and played out via a tablet using the cloud.  Stream videos or music to your class from your cloud via your tablet to inspire pupils to learn.
• Storing class assignments into the cloud is also possible. By granting them all access, they can all access the necessary files from home or wherever they happen to be during the holidays.

Cloud storage can make work for both pupils and teachers easier. It is also the best way to ensure the safety of your files as online storage encrypts both on upload and during storage. Pupils are going to have to think harder for excuses as to why they haven’t got their homework when cloud storage can protect you against natural disaster, hard drive failure, human error and theft.

Usually the first to pick up on trends, cloud storage is a must for students looking to protect their work and make group tasks a much easier affair.

Here are the top 5 reasons why Cloud Storage is the future for students.

Number 1: Anytime, Anywhere Access

By backing up all files into the cloud, students can gain access to them via any internet ready device, from anywhere in the world. This is great if you are learning in a different location to where you live or if you are trying to complete distance learning. It’s also great

for students doing semesters abroad as it means they don’t have to lug external hard drives or laptops with incompatible power sources around with them.

Number 2: Safety First

Your education is determined based on the submission of pieces of work. Can you imagine doing all that work and then losing it during a hard drive crash? Utter Devastation. This can be completely avoided if students backup their work to a cloud. Cloud storage protects your files from natural disaster, hard drive failure and human error as well as a whole host of other future ruining possibilities.

Number 3: Take the weight off your shoulders

By storing your files in a cloud, you can rid yourself of the extra weight and hassle of carrying around your laptop and your external hard drive. You can even banish fiddly USB sticks from the bottom of your bag . You can access all the files you have stored in the cloud via a simple application, accessible on any internet ready device.

Number 4: Group Work   

The hassle of group work can be completely erased by using cloud storage as a means of sharing files. Nothing can be lost, everyone will have access to everything and multiple versions of files will be saved in case you change direction or someone makes an error.

Number 5: Help from the folks 

Parents are a vat of untapped knowledge, but instead of having to email them a host of work, invariably with bits missing, you can grant them access to your cloud via a URL link in one simple email. They will be able to see everything you can see and like most parents, save the day!

Backing up your music to a cloud storage provider is the safest way to access all your music from wherever, via whatever internet ready device you choose.

CD’s wear out over time, hard drives fail and human error is almost always the cause of accidental deletion. Cloud storage can protect your music from being lost full stop. Cloud storage backs up your data to an offsite server, encrypts on upload and during storage and keeps your files safe from harm.

Cloud Storage not only keeps your music files safe from harm and disaster, but also allows you to have 24/7 access to them wherever you are.  Do you ever get that hankering to listen to a particular song or album but don’t have it with you? By storing your music in the cloud you can access exactly what you are looking for via your tablet or mobile phone on the bus, in a car or on holiday.

Clouds don’t discriminate by which device you acquired your music on. Regardless of whether you downloaded a track straight to your phone or via your laptop, you can back them all up into the same cloud.

Music Fans

How many songs do you think you have in your collection? How may do you think you’ll acquire in a year?

As music collections grow and grow it is easy to see how hard drives are getting full. Cloud Storage can alleviate this though. By moving your storage from your hard drive to the cloud gives you an infinite amount of space to play with.

No more external hard drives, no more USB sticks containing albums worth of tracks, instead everything in one place. A music fans dream!

Music collected over a lifetime is far too precious to lose. Don’t risk it, backup online.

There is no question that cloud storage is becoming as important to photography as mega pixels and lens types. Cloud Storage is the most efficient and cost effective way to ensure the security of your photographs, whether you are a professional or an amateur.

Seeing, Safety, Sharing

Seeing, safety and sharing are the 3 S’s of Cloud Storage when it comes to photography. Here’s why they are so important.

Seeing

By uploading your photos into a cloud you allow yourself access to them from anywhere. Using a mobile phone or tablet PC you can access your entire photo library in a few simple clicks. Perfect for people traveling to visit family or friends as well as professional photographers looking to show clients their back catalogue.

Safety

Photographs saved solely on your PC are not safe. Computers crash, hard drives fail, Laptops get stolen and human error is inevitable. Storing your photographs in a cloud however can alleviate all your photos from being at risk.

Online cloud storage keeps copies of your files safely encrypted on servers in a remote location. This not only protects them from computer viruses but also against natural disaster and theft which could occur if you stored your files on an external hard drive.

Cloud Storage also protects your photographs against human error. Automatic backup means that, on a schedule of your choosing, you can rest assured that your photos are being stored to the cloud. This means if you delete a folder or edit and override a photo you are working on it doesn’t equal disaster.

File versioning is a feature of cloud storage which means that if you were to be working on a photograph but save, backup and then change your mind, it wouldn’t be an issue. Multiple versions of the same file will be saved as part of file versioning meaning no matter what you do to your file, the original can always be accessed.

Sharing

Gone are the days of emailing individual photographs to friends or family members so they can see what you have been up to. Cloud Storage has replaced this tiresome act with being able to share the images saved in your cloud by emailing a single URL to those you are allowing access. This means friends and relatives can view whole folders of photographs in just a few simple clicks.

Again whether an amateur or professional photographer, you can share photographs with an extended group by using cloud storage. Other member of your group can add files to the cloud too, resulting a collaborative collection of images.

What is a Personal Cloud Storage?

Personal Cloud storage is a means of backing up your files to an online storage server which protects them from damage and loss, whilst allowing you to share them with approved people and gaining anywhere, anytime access via any internet ready device.

Access:

Files which are backed up with JustCloud are accessible via a number of internet ready devices. Thanks to JustCloud’s  online control panel you can access your files 24/7, 365 days a year via your mobile phone, tablet PC or laptop.

Benefits:

As well as uninterrupted access to your files, the benefits of anytime, anywhere access also include no longer having to use flash drives or other external, transportable  storage devices.

File Sharing:

Online file storage has simplified the process of sharing your files with friends and family.  JustCloud allows you to invite contacts to access your cloud by email, Twitter or Facebook. Once invited a custom link is sent in order for them to gain access.

Benefits:

File sharing means you no longer have to upload and email individual files to your contact. File sharing using JustCloud makes sharing and collaborating  on files both easier and more simple.

Security:

JustCloud value security higher than anything else, which is why files are uploaded and encrypted using 256bit SSL. During all elements of file transfer files are kept secure and our servers monitored around the clock.

Benefits:

Encryption protects your files against unwanted access, viruses and hackers. Storing your files safely online also protect them from being stolen.

Sync Devices:

One of the advantages to JustCloud is that you can sync multiple devices, allowing you to have constant access to the most recent versions of your files where ever you are. JustCloud does all this in the background so you don’t even have to worry about it.

Benefits:

You will have constant access to the most recent version of your files. This means that you can start creating documents at work but finish them at home.

Cloud storage is more than just a safe way to backup your home PC. Businesses globally are using it to make their workforces more dynamic and their use of working hours more effective.

Whether you work in construction, finance, the media or teaching, cloud storage can help.

Share & Share A Like

Cloud storage can be made accessible to more than one user via an online application. This enables your team to access and engage with work collectively without having to exchange multiple emails or by printing endless sheets of paper.

• Read Only versions can be devised so as team members can access but not alter files.
• By using a shared cloud, team members can see the impact of their efforts. It will help teams to become more self-regulating and will weed out any weak links.
• Additional documents created by individual team members can be easily uploaded to the cloud and made available to all. This helps teams to develop and reach their goals easier and on time.
• File versioning can avoid the risk of loss or accidental deletion. As files are amended and changed, rather than directly replace, cloud storage saves versions of each document. This means previous incarnations can be returned too if a sudden change of focus or direction occurs.

Benefits

Whilst the list above maybe considered benefits, the below are more practical benefits to using cloud storage.

• Instant access – Accessibility via any internet ready device means you can access files instantaneously from wherever you are in t he world at any time.
• Automatic Backup – With multiple people working on multiple files for the same project you have to rely on people being responsible for their own backup. Using cloud storage takes the risk of them forgetting by offering automated backup. It does it for you!
• NO MORE EMAILS
• Archiving for later use – The cloud is infinite which means you can store all the data relating to a project from inception to fruition within it and use it for reference later. This feature can also aid in project reviews.

As you can see regardless of what sort or what size of team you run, cloud storage makes it a more secure and infinitely easier way to communicate and achieve your goals.