Author: Branko Vlajin

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; If you live in North America, chances are you’d like to store your files somewhere U.S. agencies can’t get to them. Canada is a prime candidate for that, as it doesn’t have laws, such as the USA Patriot Act, CLOUD or PRISM, that allow the government to look at your data. In this article, we’ve selected the best cloud storage for Canada, with Sync.com taking the top spot. Canada’s government is scrambling to update its laws to match EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and keep the right to free data transfer. That’s great news for ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; Storing your data in the cloud is one thing, but where the server is located is another. Different countries have different rules, after all. At Cloudwards.net, we usually look at the bad examples, but, in this article, we’re going to look at cloud storage in Canada to determine whether it might serve as a good one. If your data is stored on servers in the U.S., laws such as the Patriot Act, PRISM and CLOUD will apply to it, all of which allow authorities to rifle through your files. If you use Canadian servers, it ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; Below the overcast sky of Britain, there’s a lot of thieving going on. One laptop is stolen every 53 seconds, usually in a pub or on the tube. Bobbies can’t be everywhere, but that statistic is still alarming and should give you a reason to backup your data. We’ve sifted through backups and picked the best online backup for the UK already, starting with CloudBerry Backup coupled with Amazon S3. Not only can someone steal your laptop, your hard drive might crash or malfunction. You can try to recover your data, but you can’t be ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; Australia is a land of high living standards, metropolitan cities, vast deserts and long beaches renowned for surfing. The place is far from the rest of the world, though, and most backup servers are far from it, too. As this means even slower backup speeds, we’ve picked the best online backup for Australia, with Acronis True Image taking the top spot thanks to its nearby server. Creating a backup is smart since your hard drive isn’t reliable and your data might be lost to malfunctions or crashes. Data recovery software might help you, but that’s ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; Australians have been steadily increasing their use of cloud storage and it’s no wonder. Cloud storage allows you to clear room on your hard drive, collaborate more easily, share your photos and more. The downside is its distance from the rest of the world since closer servers are better, so we’ve found the best cloud storage for Australia for you, starting with Egnyte Connect. How close you are to the provider’s servers has a huge impact on the quality of your cloud storage experience. Your data transfer will be faster and should have fewer interruptions, ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; There’s a limit to how much we can achieve as individuals, so people who want to give back will either volunteer or maybe even create their own nonprofit organization. They often struggle with money, though. To help them reach more people and reduce their financial stress, we’ve found the best cloud storage for nonprofits, including our top pick Tresorit. Nonprofits work with many individuals and organizations and hold a lot of financial data. That might make it difficult to track everything, as well as amass terabytes of data. Storing data in the cloud makes it ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; Microsoft’s Xbox video game console has had many iterations over the years. The company has improved its hardware and software, but the latest two have something the previous versions do not: cloud storage. You can access it if you own an Xbox 360 or Xbox One. In this article, we’ll show how to use Xbox cloud storage to improve the quality of your gaming life. The Xbox Live service enables you to access cloud storage and save your game session to its servers. Though it’s a far cry from the flexibility offered by our best ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; You’ve backed up your files, but something’s wrong. You (or someone else) made changes to your financial report, novel outline or other important file and the proper version is no longer available. File versioning, which is like a saved history of your files, can help. We’ve chosen the best online backup with file versioning for you. The backup service will record your changes in its system (how many depends on the service). You can use file versioning to go back and retrieve the version you need. You might need to do that because of hackers ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; Unlimited cloud backup sounds good, but many services claim to offer unlimited backup, then saddle you with restrictions. We’ve made sure to find a couple, at least, that don’t restrict the amount of space you use to backup or throttle your bandwidth. Here, we’ll run down the best unlimited online backup services. Your music, financial reports, HD movies and photos all rest on your hard drive. Drives are getting bigger than ever. Average laptop discs have more than 250GB, while those in desktop computers can range in the terabytes, but that’s not unlimited storage capacity ... Read More