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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘online storage’
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]