Cloud Storage

~Introduction

Working on a computer and saving one’s work as they go is a normal practice, but years go by and the 300GB hard drive in the laptop can no longer hold all the work. There are probably family photos and work files mixed in with it all and the only option now is to move on to 16GB thumb drives and 1TB external hard drives. The fact is that these are all physical objects that will hold data and information for us, so they are limited as to when one remembers to bring them. The latest innovation that solves the problem of forgetting a storage device is “Cloud Storage.” The cloud storage system is almost literally storage in the air, hence the name, but it allows one to access the data they have stored in the Cloud from anywhere they want (Linsenbach, 2008.) So far the technology seems exciting and convenient, but there are hidden dangers to posting one’s work online rather than a personal storage device.