![]() ![]() ![]() Google Docs are also now a part of Google Drive and any documents created or shared using Google Docs are a part of this offering. You can now access it via a mobile device or a web browser on another machine. Any files or folders you drag and drop into this folder gets synced up to the “cloud”. They both offer a folder on your desktop called “Google Drive” or “Dropbox”. The newly introduced Google Drive is very similar to Dropbox. Once I find it, I can email it or share it. As for accessing it via my Android mobile app, it works but my only peeve is that I have to navigate the directory structure of my netbook on the phone to find a file. At a little more than $50 per year per machine, Carbonite does a good job of securing your data at the price of a Starbucks latte each month. I did have a laptop fail on me once and thanks to Carbonite I was able to restore all my documents to my new netbook over the course of a weekend. It is not an instant sync like some of the offerings, but I do see it regularly run to sync all my changed or new documents. It surveys your machine at certain time periods and then does a mass upload of files and documents that have changed or are new. Carbonite however is like the “batch process” of olden days. Carbonite also offers a mobile app to access this data, albeit for one user login and therefore one machine. For the last 2-3 years at work, we have been using Carbonite on critical laptops and servers to backup important data. People never worry about backups until it is too late and your laptop crashes and you lose precious data. Sharing certain data with colleagues or friends. ![]() Accessing your data – whether from another machine or a mobile device.In today’s transitional environment from the traditional computers/laptops to mobile devices the key capabilities are: I thought I’d cut through some of the hype to compare the most popular offerings in the market today (and there are upwards of 50 of these). There are many products and services out there offering buzz words like backing up, and “syncing” to the omnipresent “cloud”. ![]()
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