Tag: cloud

Preservation problems

The New Age: Leaving Behind Everything, Or Nothing At All
As for his own digital legacy? Moser says, “Please throw it all in the Pacific Ocean with a big block of concrete around it. I mean, it probably won’t help because I’m sure that Google has it in a cave in Idaho somewhere,” he says. “There’s this incredible amount of you that exists and that isn’t protected, that you don’t really have any say-so over. Where before you could just burn letters and diaries, you can’t exactly wipe every hard drive and scrape the cloud clean. I think the only thing on our side is that probably by the time, if I’m granted a normal life span and die in 40 years, there will be so much of it that nobody would possibly ever want to bother,” he says.

Note to self: must sort through those old boxes in the loft, those old university zip disks and SyQuest cartridges might still be up there. Though of course I’ve nothing to play them on if I find them…

A less cloudy perspective on clouds

CloudDave Girouard, former President of Enterprise for Google, on why our objections to the cloud are mad.

Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he? Though, reading this, it’s hard to argue against him.

If you care about the reliability, security, and the protection of your data, then you should entrust it to those who are most capable of managing it. If you believe you can match the capabilities and rigor of Google’s Security Operations team, I wish you well.

An interesting perspective from someone very much the other side of this cloud debate.

(Via Robert Brook)

Owner occupier

I increasingly feel like this is the only place on the internet I really own. The place I’m sure of. Twitter, Instagram etc feel like places that could be snatched away at somebody’s whim. Which would, sort of, be fine but, sort of, be not. I’m backing them up like I’m backing this up. But the files without the social context would be a little thin.

A post from Russell Davies carrying on that Personal Cloud line of thought.

Word in the cloud, Excel projects

“Save & Send” Word Documents to Windows Live Skydrive
Today, I want to describe how you can save Word 2010 documents directly to “the cloud” using Windows Live SkyDrive. Windows Live SkyDrive is a service of Microsoft. It provides 25GB of free online storage. Two of the greatest features it has are document sharing between yourself and other Windows Live users, and in-browser editing of the documents that you store there. Let’s open a Word document and see how this is done.

Excel as a project management tool
It goes without saying that Microsoft Project is THE program to use if you need to manage large projects. But what if you manage smaller projects? Can you do that in Excel? Sure, but life will be easier if you start with a template that is specifically designed to facilitate project management.

Personal clouds

SkyDrive – designing personal cloud storage for billions of people
SkyDrive has grown tremendously since we launched in 2007, and recently, we’ve made a number of updates to SkyDrive. But we know we have a ways to go. As we look to the future and designing a personal cloud storage service for billions of people, it’s important to reflect both on what’s going on in the industry and the problems people are having with today’s approaches to the cloud.