Fifteen years of data to store Fifteen years ago I became a serious investor. I didn’t want to pay the high commission costs that even discount brokers charged in those days and I wanted to make several very small purchases each month so that I could slowly build up a diversified portfolio of stocks. I [...]
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Storing Financial Records in the Cloud
Posted in Cloud Computing, Online Storage, tagged Cloud Computing, financial, Google Docs, online storage on February 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Evernote
Posted in Notes, Online Storage on August 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Evernote is a free cloud computing program that lets you take notes on any subject using a large set of tools. The Evernote website describes its product’s capabilities as, “Type a text note. Clip a web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe. “. That’s “step 1″. Step 2: [...]
Dropbox — Almost in the Cloud
Posted in Cloud Computing, Online Storage, tagged Cloud Computing, online storage on March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been told that “Dropbox” is a good place to store files in the cloud. Is that true? While I’m a big fan of Dropbox and use it all the time, technically speaking, it is not a cloud storage location. Here is a link to the Dropbox website: https://www.dropbox.com/ Dropbox is a wonderful online extension [...]
Retirement Planning in the Cloud
Posted in Cloud Computing, Online Storage, Spreadsheets, tagged Cloud Computing, collaboration, financial, Google Docs, Microsoft Office on March 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A friend of mine is approaching retirement. She would like to get an overview of all her investments, both retirement assets and non-retirement assets. She would like to see how her actual asset allocation (percent is stocks, bonds, and cash) differs from her desired allocation. A spreadsheet would appear to be the best way to [...]
A Cloud Computing Example
Posted in Cloud Characteristics, Online Storage, Wordprocessing, tagged Cloud Computing, collaboration, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, online storage on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Can you give me an example of the advantages of cloud computing over desktop computing? Why, for example, would I want to create a Google Doc file in the cloud rather than a Word Document on my computer? Suppose you had a Word Document on your computer and, just to play around, you uploaded that [...]
Is Cloud Computing the Same as the Internet?
Posted in Cloud Characteristics, Online Storage, Wordprocessing, tagged Cloud Computing, collaboration, CRM, Google Docs, Microsoft Office on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What’s all this cloud computing hype about? Isn’t cloud computing just another name for the internet? The answer is: NO. Cloud computing uses the internet — and in fact couldn’t exist without the internet — but cloud computing implies a lot more than just using the internet. What makes a cloud differ from an ordinary [...]
