Personal Clouds

Personal Clouds

Introduction

Cloud computing is referred as an efficient and advanced technique of using all the resources of computing including software and hardware. All of these resources of computing are usually available in an isolated location and are available over a network (like internet). It is often observed that, consumers can easily purchase these resources of computing (including computing power and storage devices) as a utility, on demand (Hurwitz, et.al., 2012).

The technique of cloud ensures the remote services with the data of the user, computation and software. It is also observed that, the technique of cloud computing exclusively focuses on managing the cost of IT infrastructure of any organization or business. It also ensures the accessibility of important information of the origination in a real time. On the other hand, several companies are also providing the services and techniques of personal cloud. The companies who provide the services of personal cloud may include Microsoft, Apple and Amazon (Miller, 2012). The proceeding paper incorporates all the features and specifications of personal cloud techniques, along with the specialties of their providers.

Discussion

Amazon's Cloud Drive

Amazon is considered as one of the greatest retailer of the web services. It provides best quality web services for its users. Amazon has also initiated a chain of personal cloud services. It is nothing more than a storage application of web. The Amazon storage devices may include computers, mobile phone devices and different browsers. Therefore, Amazon has launched a series of devices for its customers (Hurwitz, et.al., 2012).

One of the devices of Amazon may include “Amazon Cloud Drive”. The cloud drive of Amazon is nothing than an external hard drive for the smart phones, tablet PCs or personal computers. This device allows the users to store their documents, videos, photos and music files. It is also compatible on web browsers which allow its users to access all the digital resources on this efficient device, cloud drive (Miller, 2012).

Amount of Free Storage Space on Amazon's Cloud Drive

The Amazon's cloud drive offers the free storage space of 5GB. On the other hand, the music brought through the store of Amazon MP3 does not add up towards the limit of storage (Miller, 2012).

The Annual Cost for Additional Storage on Amazon's Cloud Drive

The annual cost for additional storage on Amazon's cloud drive is 10 dollars ($10) per each year.

Cost of Apple's iCloud

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