Webopedia Term of the Day: What is Personal Cloud Storage?

“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.”

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