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Posted On
Oct 10, 2007
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 I think transferring files between computers can be very uneasy at times. Imagine keeping your files and photos to a disk or CDR, carrying it home and the disk is corrupt. Or may be a very important backup gone wrong. I know I have.
It's not bad advice for home users, either. Many people have precious photographs, irreplaceable email messages and documents that would be difficult or impossible to reconstruct if they were lost.
So why not look for an online service to store your important files. With most computers today running on some kind of Internet connection, having your own personal disk drive stored in the Internet is an excellent idea. You can upload your work, get home, download it again and continue where you left off.
This is the time to look into getting to buy the best storage service. With the growing interest of enterprises in the second-generation online backup services iForem has just entered the splash offering a unique model that has created a niche for online storage.
iForem
Online storage services have been around since the dot-com boom, however they have always just plain stunk. Uploading files was a pain, sharing your files required you to jump through hoops, or your account would be severely limited in storage. iForem online storage service makes an attempt at excelling where other services have failed, the whole user experience.
To improve upon the whole online storage problem, iForem has jumped on the Web 2.0 bandwagon. It has everything including Web 2.0 service. It has AJAX, Blogs, Flash, and a beautiful interface. And, unlike other Web 2.0 services who add these features just because they can, iForem makes perfect use out of each and everyone of them.
iForem allows consumers to build a legacy of everything from documents, to photos, to other digital assets, and know they are secure. The online service is ideal for consumers at home or on the go. Whether storing family photos, medical records, tax returns, recipes, scrap books, or personal journals, consumers can rest easy knowing the information that is important to them is secure.
iForem versus other Online Storage service
With this fast evolving online storage market one can expect no more than just simple services where files could be uploaded and downloaded from a mapped virtual drive or a simple web based interface without keeping in mind other facilities and benefits that can be provided to the user.
 After comparing a number of online storage services currently on web, iForem certainly carries a more compelling offering. Lets take a look at the reasons for the same:
User benefits
While most of the online services offer basic storage benefit and platform independence, iForem takes it beyond than just photos and file storage. For all those people today who carry their precious documents like family photos, property documents, things that they want their family to trace later may be, investment files in banks, lockers or close relatives, iForem is the catch. As iForem is the only online storage service that guarantees data security and life long service. Most of the other storage services decline to such terms.
So if you are a photographer who needs to store very valuable images and documents, and share with others via the web. Or a traveling journalists who require a place to save all notes and articles, regardless of where they are in the world or may be stock brokers who require a secure location to back up historical financial information, from any location at work or beyond, iForem is the ideal storage platform as they focus on security forever.
What if you miss your monthly subscription payment?
As most of the other online storage services charge monthly subscription, iForem carries pay once mode of payment. So convenient for people as they don’t have to bother about their data if they miss paying their monthly subscription fee online. iForem is here to stay forever, so why not just pay once and forget your worries as your data is saved for life long.
iForem guarantees
While no other storage service take responsibility of your data, iForem through its financial trust iNuity takes entire accountability perpetually. iForem places a calculated amount of funds from each sale into the iNuity trust. The trust invests the funds and ensures that even if iForem is bankrupt, or purchased, your data will still be available.
Covert-Ops
Im sure not many of you must have come across a service like this on any online storage platform, at least I haven’t. Imagine if you want to delegate some important documents to your lawyer on a certain time or period, what do you do if you are trekking on hillside somewhere with no access to any communication channel. iForem takes on from here, the Covert-Ops section of the service provides the users with a facility of setting time period to any particular document to be sent to the concerned person. So if you want to send your property papers to your lawyer after five year from now, all u need to do is set your time and date on Covert-Ops.
This platform is no doubt a complete standout as it carries much more than just the basic benefits provided by all the other online storage services. Features like Set and forget retention management, Operational Efficiency, No Subscription Fees, Longevity, Security, Easy Usage, Automated business process solutions like Lock Box, Drop Box, Covert Ops, End-to-end SSL and SSH security, Enterprise ACL management and an Easy to use and function API makes it worth the money they ask for.
The company is certainly here to stay for long as they plan to roll out the consumer friendly version of the service in Q2 of 2008.
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Posted On
Aug 29, 2007
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We all know how uneasy it can get transferring files between computers to a disk or CDR. Most computers these days have some kind of Internet connection and store their work in the personal disk drive. But as time passed technology took off and evolved online file storage system. Now users can expect a simple service where files can be easily uploaded and downloaded from a disk drive or a simple web based interface.
How can online file storage simplify management?
We cant deny that in this traditional infrastructure, data has to be fairly close to users. This became all the more difficult as the business became global. It's not uncommon, for instance, for work groups to span the world, with people on multiple continents collaborating on a project. However, the need to access data 24 hrs can be a problem with the companies. Online file storage system eliminates this issue. A long as the data is residing on a file storage site, users can access it from anywhere and everywhere.
Sometimes referred as “file hosting” file storage is often though of as a leased hard drive space. Web servers, after all, are nothing more than enormous hard drives filled with files. And many companies have found a revenue stream in partitioning off chunks of those hard drives and renting access to those chunks.
What makes online file storage so useful is the convenience. Virtually all commercial file hosting services use a Web-based interface, so you can upload and download programs right in your browser. Don’t have a floppy? Upload the files to your leased hard drive space through your browser, head home, and then download them onto your home computer.
How to choose your file storage application?
Pricing
Today some companies carry very aggressive pricing. But as the competition increases it will drive out these companies out of the market, as the price is likely to settle down a little.
The obvious way to look out for a perfect application is to check If they offer a unlimited storage for a normal sum. The cost should be covered only via one time sign up fee and through charges on download bandwidth. Once you need the files, you don’t mind paying to get them.
Application
As the amount of unprotected but hugely important media content out there on hard drives (music, movies, home movies, pictures), is growing every day. Look for a online storage that is packed with new computers and applications like Windows. All initial software would be auto stored, and users would have the option to continuously syncronize their hard drive with the virtual drive.
Site Reliability
This is the most important area, not to be overlooked while you pick your file storage application. Make sure that the site should have a built in method that allows access of files anywhere and everywhere. There are lot of sites I have come across that doesn’t allow the user to log in from different locations. If you’re concerned about security and use Windows, the NTFS (New technology file system) file system is faster and more efficient at storing data. Security in NTFS is based upon the key concept of assigning certain rights to specific users or groups of users.
Web 2.0 Features
Pick file storage sites that are the new players today and are more focused on key web 2.0 features. There are some best that have multiple folders (private, shared, group, public), RSS feeds for each folder, etc. There are websites that includes features that allow subscriptions for RSS enclosures (such as podcasts), so that those files are stored in the cloud instead of your hard drive.
Where is Online File Storage system heading?
Very soon offline storage will extinct for most of the Internet users. The cost and availability of network bandwidth, the cost of the “people” side of tape storage and handling, disk cost declines, multi-site DR, data de-duplication and many more factors will drive this change. It will be enough to say I think this one is happening now and will accelerate going into next year. Sure it will still take time to change but, just because it is a long trip, it doesn’t mean we don’t know where we are headed.
With the technology and power costs/limitations of moving to higher performance drives, I believe that we will achieve performance more effectively.
And at last as the concept of Web 2.0 moves ahead, the information will be separated from application.
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Posted On
Aug 21, 2007
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 I think transferring files between computers can be very uneasy at times. Have you ever saved an important file to a disk or CDR, got it home and found that the disk is corrupt? Or maybe an important backup that went wrong? I know I have. With most computers these days having some kind of Internet connection, having your own personal disk drive stored in the Internet is an excellent idea. You can upload your work, get home, download it again and continue where you left off.
Although most of my friends these days use Winzip, I don’t mind looking around and experimenting with something new in technology. I have been going through all the latest news on Gigaom and believe me friends, register yourself there and you will never be left behind in some hottest inventions. When I heard about online storage concept I had to check it out. A rather funny picture came to my head, with all the files floating in space (don’t know why!). But, it was nothing like that and it looked like a rather impressive web site.
Driveway looked very good and very professional, you initially start off with 25Mb and by referring friends and answering customer surveys you then can expand. Sounds good!
There are quite a lot of benefits from online storage driveway.com provides all the benefits of a world-class file management system
• Universal access to powerful online file distribution and management features
• Multiple security options including support for SSL and server-side encryption
• Account administration tools
• Entirely Web-based (no desktop client to download)
• Multiple access protocol support inducing HTML, FTP, and WebDAV
• Integration options with standard SNMP- or HTML-based monitoring tools
• Extensive data logging and architecture
The possibilities for use are endless, whether you just want to backup important files or have your own online photo album to show your family, Driveway is the easy and fast way to do it.
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