Cloud Storage – Everybody’s Doing It
If you look at the plethora of news articles and blog posts about cloud storage on the internet today, you will see a wealth of information about new cloud storage companies, existing companies starting to offer cloud storage and computing, companies merging to provide a better cloud storage solution and even bigger companies changing their cloud storage plans to provide the same service they have offered all along at a slashed price. Amazon reduced the prices of their plans significantly and saw reasonable sales growth as a result. Microsoft not only did the same, but re-branded their SkyDrive cloud storage platform to OneDrive, in an attempt to get the idea of the cloud into the minds of the people who use Windows based PCs and tablet devices, as well as their Windows phones.
There are also a lot of up-and-comers in the industry that are providing new and interesting platforms and features within their own interpretation of what the ideal cloud experience should be. There are indeed improvements here, with such services, as each type of company has to explore their own niches to be truly successful in a sea of options. The bigger companies like Microsoft and Amazon can simply get away with dropping prices to appeal to their particular niche markets, which is basically well known products at reduced prices. This is the best way they can go to see positive results, and even then, it’s shaky, because it still comes down to features in the end.
When you don’t have the vast popularity and seemingly unlimited budgets of Google, Amazon, etc., you have to offer something that will be not only useful and innovative to a customer, but also competitively priced. This is where you start to see the true expertise of the longstanding cloud storage providers who have been there from the beginning and are now starting to stay afloat and keep their heads above water in that cloud storage provider ocean. If you dig deeper into the serious providers (and by serious we mean companies who have one mission in their business, which is to provide cloud storage), you will find not only practicality and affordability, but sheer brilliant innovation in their frameworks.
It does seem like everybody is doing cloud storage today, in some way, shape or form. There are plenty of companies out there who believe cloud storage is the way of the future and wish to invest in that future. Others want to simply offer you a bare minimum way to park your data on their servers and collect storage fees from you for the convenience, much like your airport parking garage. You enter the complex, take a ticket, and then it is up to you to decide where to park and how, as well as how you are going to keep your car safe and out of the hands of a thief. All the staff of the garage serve to do is collect those fees as you exit. If something happens, you will be told it is not their problem.
With the more dedicated cloud storage providers like OpenDrive, you will indeed get the full service treatment at a reasonable price, and that is the type of thing you should look for in the ideal cloud storage provider. You should make sure that the staff there is not just providing you a place to park and doing nothing but taking your money. They should be willing and capable of helping you with everything you need to make your cloud experience one that will be a true benefit to your personal life and even your business, no matter what its size.
Everybody is doing cloud storage, but not everybody is doing it like OpenDrive. Come see for yourself how they take it to the next level and offer everything that everyone else is offering, whether it is storage, syncing, backup, collaboration or other things, all in one affordable package.
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