“A form of cloud storage that applies to storing an individual?s
data in the cloud and providing the individual with access to the
data from anywhere. Personal cloud storage also often enables
syncing and sharing stored data across multiple devices such as
mobile phones and tablet computers. Personal cloud storage is also
frequently referred to as mobile cloud storage or pocket cloud
storage.“Apple’s iCloud, Windows SkyDrive and Amazon’s Simple Storage
Service (Amazon S3) are currently the most popular examples of
personal cloud storage. Hard drive manufacturers are increasingly
providing personal cloud storage services as well via offerings
like the Western Digital MyBook Live and Seagate GoFlex lines of
hard drives.”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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