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Welcome to the World of Cloud Gaming and Backup: The On-Demand Model

by Preetam on July 27, 2012

If you are reading this, chances are that you have heard about cloud computing and its associated benefits. Now, have you ever thought about the possibility that you can play your favorite computer games over the cloud? If you haven’t, here is a small primer for you.

Cloud Gaming is the latest trend in cloud computing and is set to revolutionize the gaming industry both from an end user as well as a provider perspective. There is no need to save your games on your computer and worry about portability when you are away from your computer. Instead, you can play your favorite game on-demand whenever and wherever you want because the game is no longer only in your hard drive but is located over the cloud. This means that like pretty much everything associated with cloud computing, it is anywhere and anytime kind of model. Apart from this, the producers of the games benefit as they need not worry about piracy. This is because they no longer need to distribute physical copies of their games that can be copied and pirate and instead can ask users to sign up to their cloud based gaming offerings for a fee.

Apart from cloud gaming, the cloud can also be used for backing up your games. In the same way in which we discussed how you can access your games anywhere and everywhere, by saving your games in the cloud, you save yourselves a lot of trouble. As a matter of fact, many gaming companies have introduced the cloud backup option for online and computer games. This makes it easier for users to relax and be secure in the knowledge that even if their hard drive crashes, their collection of unlocked games that they have amassed over a period of time have been backed up in the cloud. As a user, you have the double whammy benefit of storage along with anytime and everywhere access once you have access to the cloud. Indeed, as we shall see, even reputed game producers like Microsoft have jumped on to the cloud gaming and cloud backup option with their Xbox.

The way Xbox allows you to store and access your games are so easy and effortless that you might wonder if they are actively pushing cloud gaming and cloud backup as viable alternatives. Indeed, the backing up of your games to the cloud is easier than doing the same to your USB drive for Xbox. What more, once you start the backup process, you can forget about it till it completes as it runs in the background and uses idle time memory and processor speed to complete the backup process.

Finally, the cloud paradigm is revolutionizing just about everything connected with IT and hence, cloud gaming and backup represents the frontiers to which the cloud providers can push themselves. So login to your cloud account and start the backup right away; or sign up for a cloud gaming account.

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Backups Made Easier with Backupify: The Cloud to Backup your Cloud

by Preetam on July 13, 2012

If you thought that your online social network data and your email and other data in various sites are safe and free from leakage, think again! In recent months, there has been a spate of incidents where user data in the social media networks has been compromised either due to user error or due to loss or leakage of data from these sites. Of course, the probability of occurrence of the former (user error) is more than the latter (leakage or loss of data due to the service provider’s mistake). In any case, the writing on the wall is clear: not all cloud based storage is free from data leakage and hence, users should take all necessary steps to prevent data loss. If you have been contemplating having a third party provider for your online data backup, you would be among the growing numbers of users who are thinking on the same lines. When one takes into account the fact that the millions of Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and Flickr users are yet to take the issue of cloud backup of another cloud seriously, one gets the picture that the future of cloud backup sites like Backupify is indeed bright once these users realize the benefits of using the service.

As mentioned above, many users delete their online data in error and sometimes even though they have done knowingly, they might need the data for whatever reasons. And this is where Backupify comes into play given the fact that the service can restore most data (with a few exceptions) stored on these sites. The exceptions would be that Twitter Tweets cannot be restored with the exact date time stamp since Twitter provides data in real time format. However, one need not get overly worried about deleting mail in Gmail and Yahoo and without fretting too much, one can turn to Backupify to restore the data. In recent months, Backupify has turned its attention to the Enterprise segment which is another smart move from the company. This is because corporates have an innate need to keep records of what their employees are doing online or when they are using company sponsored accounts. This is a regulatory and legal requirement which can be easily met using Backupify.

Finally, the service which is expanding exponentially can be used on a trial basis to check out its features and have a look and feel of the ways in which data can be backed up. Indeed, the company aims for greater exposure to both the enterprise and consumer markets in the near future since social media is exploding along with online data storage needs. Given the fact that the concept of a cloud to cloud backup seems to be catching on, it would not be long before Backupify hits pay dirt and becomes a phenomenon in itself. In this respect, it seems to be following in the footsteps of the other famous storage service, Dropbox.

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Backup Strategies for Enterprises: Tape is History and Cloud is the Future

June 14, 2012

Of all backup strategies that have evolved over the years, cloud based backup promises to fulfill the criteria of large storage space and anytime demand restores. Before we launch into the benefits of the cloud as a backup mechanism, it would be worthwhile to consider how the initial emphasis on tape morphed into a disk [...]

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SugarSync now with new design

February 3, 2012

SugarSync, one of the larger online backup and synchronisation services on the web, got quite a nice facelist over night. The overall website and also part of the software, such as icons, looks now more modern and sleak. I think it was about time, as the old website looked a little cluttered with all those [...]

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