Cloud backup, the world has already moved on and you?

The cloud computing revolution - computing services provided by connecting to a remote server, is one of the most significant in the technological field at the present time. More and more organizations, businesses and private users are basing themselves on one or another cloud computing platform, due to an impressive list of advantages: economic savings, simple operation, integration with advanced interfaces and the possibility to control a multitude of applications remotely, at any time and at any hour.

Backing up content in the cloud is even more common, with the external storage media replacing the physical ones, whose volume is limited and may be accompanied by malfunctions. Here is everything you need to know about the changes that have taken place in the field of cloud backup in recent years:

on the need for backup (or: the consequences of disasters)

"Why didn't I back up the information in advance?"- is one of the most frustrating questions that can be asked, when every year, countless people lose important files (and sometimes of huge economic value) in this way. This question has been asked by quite a few medical institutions in the United States in recent years, when natural disasters resulted in many "physical" storage devices among those of the medical institutions being damaged, for all the enormous loss of information.

Thoughts of this arose in the United States after Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, while Hurricane Sandy in 2012 indicated this even more strongly. In Israel too, many people switched to virtual backup solutions after serious events, such as: the fire in Carmel, the fall of Katyushas or other security emergencies.

A developing field by all accounts

Hand in hand with the realization that a different kind of backup solutions are required, the number of enabling applications has also increased Remote cloud backup In practice: the main developments are in a period of time of the last five years. First of all, this is about making the high-speed Internet several times faster than in the past, which allows for fast and often inexpensive storage of information.

Further to this, various backup means have been added in recent years, provided by the best software giants in the world: since 2012, Google has been offering Google account holders Google Drive, which currently offers 15 GB of free storage. In the same year, Microsoft launched Sky Drive (now One Drive) - a file storage service that has since undergone various transformations. In the current version, the service offers 15 GB for free storage as well, with an increased volume for owners of later versions of Windows and the possibility of increasing the volume for a fee.

Another well-known software is Dropbox, a popular software that offers a smaller storage volume (2 GB), but with the possibility of expansion after referring friends to the software. By the way, in Israel the field is not resting on its laurels either, when in early 2014 Bezeq International launched the Virtual Nest cloud service.

As is the best tradition, the field of cloud storage is also affected by technological developments. The takeover of the world by smartphones has resulted in the fact that each such service has a dedicated application, through which it can be used anywhere and at any time. Another interesting innovation of recent years is the option to edit the documents and share the changes in real time.