We all take photos and videos for memories, to document our lives, and to show off to friends and family. But what happens when those memories - or worse yet, those videos - are lost or damaged? Photo cloud storage is a great way to keep all your photos and videos safe and accessible from anywhere in the world. With the introduction of high-resolution cameras and smartphones, 1 TB of storage space … [Read more...]
What to Know About the Cloud Storage Services for Smartphones
Mobile cloud storage services allow a smartphone user to create, backup and organize their files, folders, music, and photos. The services are similar to other cloud computing models and services. Usually, the storage providers offer a limited free usage tier and charge for additional storage space. Some of the smartphone manufacturers include their own mobile cloud storage service and app with … [Read more...]
Is it Better to Store Data on the Cloud or on a Hard Drive?
With so much of work and personal lives revolving around computers, just about everyone has a surplus of data, and they all need somewhere to store it. But what’s the best option? There are few methods of storing digital data - either locally on the hard drive, optical drive, memory cards, tape drive or remotely with a third-party service. Both of the options have distinct advantages and … [Read more...]
ESP32 Arduino : What is SPI Flash File System (SPIFFS)
The SPI Flash File System or SPIFFS is a light-weight file system for microcontrollers with an SPI flash chip. A flash file system is designed for storing files on flash memory–based storage devices optimized for the particular system. SPI stands for Serial Peripheral Interface. Flash memory is a type of non-volatile storage that is electrically eraseable and rewriteable. Flash memory is a kind … [Read more...]
What is Mobile Cloud Storage?
The cloud storage has the advantage of pay for use and also it offers elastic scalability. There are challenges of mobile devices like limited bandwidth, limited computing power, and also limited storage (for backup) which has led the manufacturers and service providers to develop some value-added mobile cloud storage services. Mobile cloud storage is a storage service which is accessible … [Read more...]
What is Deniable Encryption in Cloud Storage?
Deniable Encryption is like tit for tat. Let us as assume, you want to decipher an encrypted file of your enemy. If an encrypted file gives you wrong information, you are likely to miss it. The required effort to find the correct file will consume too much time. Deniable encryption is a type of encryption that allows to convincingly deny that usable data is encrypted or keeps no way to be able to … [Read more...]
Difference Between Object Storage and Block Storage
Users commonly seek the difference between Object Storage and Block Storage. We have good number of publications on this website on object storage to point towards the differences, but often that process was as a part of answering some other question, such as Methods of Encryption in Cloud Object Storage. Object Storage is newer technology. Object storage has a flat structure where files are … [Read more...]
Methods of Encryption in Cloud Object Storage : OpenStack & IBM Cloud
Users can encrypt each object on cloud storage using the provider's way, such as using private and public keys. Throughout various articles on this site we discussed about cloud storage and security methods. We often talk around data encryption on cloud storage but avoid going in-depth. Object Storage is a data storage architecture which manages data as objects. Each object typically includes the … [Read more...]
How To Use IBM Cloud CDN and Cloud Object Storage
Previously we published various guides on Rackspace Cloud Files to use CDN and Cloud Object Storage for hosting static website to hosting jQuery powered video players. Lately, Rackspace Cloud Files has been very costly with a fixed per month fees for just having the account. We have similar guides on HP Cloud CDN (HP Public Cloud has been closed). Other CDNs like KeyCDN not exactly cost effective … [Read more...]
Upload to IBM Cloud CDN Using OpenStack Swift Client
IBM Cloud CDN needs Pay-as-you-go account. We have not tested the lite version of IBM Cloud Object Storage (free trial version) for the presence of features of OpenStack Swift. In this guide, we will show how to upload objects to IBM Cloud CDN or Object Storage using OpenStack Swift client and our a helper Python script. OpenStack Swift already have long known Python clients. We have a lot of … [Read more...]
Which Software as a Service (SaaS) Still Important to the Users
All of us use some of the Software as a Service (SaaS). In this article we are discussing which Software as a Service (SaaS) still important to the users as the cost of dedicated, VPS, cloud servers declined and declining to afford & number of F/OSS software increased. It is off-topic matter to mention, yet Platform as a Service (PaaS) apparently failed to convince from developers to the CIOs. … [Read more...]