So, you think you’ve got all your work saved; then your computer crashes and wipes your work out. When your server reboots, your file is nowhere to be found. Or the flash drive you used to back up your important files goes missing—or goes through a load of laundry. Even if you still rely on flash drives and servers to back up your work, cloud backup for your files is still worth looking into, whether for your business or your individual projects at home.
Backups Saved No Matter What
You won’t have to worry about a power outage or misplacing your flash drive when you back up your documents in a cloud system. The documents are stored via a third party, and the focus of their business is saving and securing what you store with them, so you can be sure that there won’t be any freak server wipeouts. No matter if your flash drive breaks or if your computer crashes, or is stolen or destroyed—like in a break-in or a natural disaster—or even if your entire server goes down, your documents in the cloud will remain safe and secure.
Secure Documents
No one likes to think about what will happen if a thief steals their computers or a hacker hacks in to their server, but it happens all too often to simply cross your fingers and hope it never happens to you. If you run a business, chances are you store confidential documents that could reveal information about your business’ finances, or even leak products or plans currently in development.
Even at home, your computer could save tax documents or irreplaceable files like pictures. Lose your flash drive or experience a break-in, and they’re gone along with your privacy—unless they’re not stored on the computer or flash drive, they’re stored remotely in the cloud. A business that offers remote digital storage should be able to explain the security measures they take to prevent hacking and stolen information.
Remote Access
Travel is a staple of most businesses. How else can you access work you completed back at the office but forgot to include on the flash drive, tablet or laptop you took with you—or even if you did, if the device got lost—other than with online cloud storage? Even outside of work, as an individual, you’re not always in one place. Upload your files to the cloud and you can access them with ease at home, in the office, in the airport, at a café or wherever else you can access the internet, no file transfers necessary.
Sharing Work Made Easy
In a business situation or an otherwise collaborative project, it can waste valuable time if you have to attach a file and email it to everyone with whom you want to share it. After you confer via several different emails strands to several different people, then you read different adjustments to the file coming in from all directions and have to edit the file and send out a new version all over again. This is not the case with the cloud. Collaborative work is made simple with online storage:
• Allow everyone who needs access to a project access to your storage via the provider; you do not have to allow them access to every single project to do this.
• Upload the file and invite your collaborators to engage in a single discussion with you on a related discussion board.
• Attach new versions of the file to the same location.
• Access this collaboration from anywhere, so if your co-worker makes some last minute changes to a project while you’re on your way to present it to a client, you can simply access the cloud to get the latest version.
Purchase as Much, or as Little, as Needed
An online storage provider doesn’t tend to offer universal pricing. That’s because they serve everyone from the biggest corporations to small businesses to individual families. You won’t have to worry about spending a fortune on online storage; instead, look into providers that offer pricing on a scale. Some go by the amount of storage you need; others by the number of users who will require access to your storage. Either way, you won’t have to pay much to enjoy the benefits of online digital storage.
