This week's websites of the Week is Microsoft's Sky Drive! 16/06/2011
Don't put your head in the clouds, put your pictures there instead, with skydrive!
Cloud computing seems to be the new buzzword at the moment. But this particular cloud has a silver lining!
Simply put, one aspect of cloud computing (that is data storage), allows users to back up important information not to a hard drive in their local computer, but to a hard drive on a server in the cloud (online). The benefits to this are numerous, but the main one has to be having access to that all important information anywhere in the world 24/7. In a nutshell, if its in the cloud, and you can connect to the internet, you can access your stuff. That means you can get it on a Laptop, PC, Mobile phone, PDA, net-book, iPad 1 or 2 etc, etc, etc.
But that's not even the good news. The good news is, Skydrive is offering you a whopping 25 Gigabytes of space! That's enough to hold,
In order to avail, all you need is a windows live ID (that will require you to set up an email account with Microsoft) you can do that here, its also free by the way.
And all that is why Microsoft's SKY-DRIVE, is the FASMRF site of the week no.1, well done to all the bright sparks at Microsoft who have finally started to realize, give a little get a little.
Simply put, one aspect of cloud computing (that is data storage), allows users to back up important information not to a hard drive in their local computer, but to a hard drive on a server in the cloud (online). The benefits to this are numerous, but the main one has to be having access to that all important information anywhere in the world 24/7. In a nutshell, if its in the cloud, and you can connect to the internet, you can access your stuff. That means you can get it on a Laptop, PC, Mobile phone, PDA, net-book, iPad 1 or 2 etc, etc, etc.
But that's not even the good news. The good news is, Skydrive is offering you a whopping 25 Gigabytes of space! That's enough to hold,
- 100 hours of video
- 125,000 Word Documents
- 25,000 PowerPoint Presentations
- 200,000 spreadsheets
- The complete recorded works of the Beatles and Michael Jackson (310 and 750 songs, respectively)
- Pictures from 100 rolls of film, which is about 3200 pictures
In order to avail, all you need is a windows live ID (that will require you to set up an email account with Microsoft) you can do that here, its also free by the way.
And all that is why Microsoft's SKY-DRIVE, is the FASMRF site of the week no.1, well done to all the bright sparks at Microsoft who have finally started to realize, give a little get a little.