So I've got all these devices online ... Home PC on Win8.1 and 2 Androids, plus TVs and VoiP phones and printers and so forth, and I will probably be adding more like cameras and smart-watch. All are web-enabled. And all of them have their own peculiar OpSys.
I'd like to streamline it and make it easier to manage. I think a key element would be to keep all the data in one place for easy access, and that means using a Cloud of some sort.
I've already got several clouds. Google, Symantec, HP, Nikon, Samsung ... every time I buy a piece of hardware, it seems like a little piece of The Cloud comes with it.
I want to narrow it down to just one, so I can connect with my data easier and faster and not have to use a bunch of different softwares and remember lots of passwords.
But which one do I choose to be my primary? Obviously, I want one that's free and will stay that way forever. But I'm not opposed to paying a modest fee for a commercial Cloud if it provides enhanced features.
I don't need a lot of space. I'm not into collecting videos or music or visual images. Most of what I have are texts I have written and interesting items I've clipped from online. I also like to make backups of my photos and financial files and so forth. I currently have less than 50G of raw data stored offline, not counting OS and Apps, and my online presence is scattered among numerous clouds but probably amounts to less than 10G total..
I'm leaning towards Google to be my primary, with a copy held on the Symantec cloud.
Are there any good cloud-management softwares available? I find all the different clouds each have their own peculiarities and none of them are particularly user-friendly.
So what should I do?
I'd like to streamline it and make it easier to manage. I think a key element would be to keep all the data in one place for easy access, and that means using a Cloud of some sort.
I've already got several clouds. Google, Symantec, HP, Nikon, Samsung ... every time I buy a piece of hardware, it seems like a little piece of The Cloud comes with it.
I want to narrow it down to just one, so I can connect with my data easier and faster and not have to use a bunch of different softwares and remember lots of passwords.
But which one do I choose to be my primary? Obviously, I want one that's free and will stay that way forever. But I'm not opposed to paying a modest fee for a commercial Cloud if it provides enhanced features.
I don't need a lot of space. I'm not into collecting videos or music or visual images. Most of what I have are texts I have written and interesting items I've clipped from online. I also like to make backups of my photos and financial files and so forth. I currently have less than 50G of raw data stored offline, not counting OS and Apps, and my online presence is scattered among numerous clouds but probably amounts to less than 10G total..
I'm leaning towards Google to be my primary, with a copy held on the Symantec cloud.
Are there any good cloud-management softwares available? I find all the different clouds each have their own peculiarities and none of them are particularly user-friendly.
So what should I do?