I abandoned my User Drive: or how I learned to stop worrying and love The Cloud.
Pictures of Google Server Farms throughout the world
Over the last two years, I have migrated my work and personal documents to the web. This change has helped me to become less stressed and more collaborative.You may be asking yourself, "What on Earth are you talking about? You moved your stuff where?" What I mean is that instead of keeping all my documents, spreadsheets, powerpoints, pdfs on my User Drive….
I keep them on my Google Drive.
Some people call storage options like Google Drive "the Cloud" or "web-based computing." What it means is that your files are turned into places on the Internet or URLs (Universal Resource Locators).Google Drive is one of many web-based storage platforms. Others include: Dropbox, iCloud (Apple), and Microsoft's Office 365.
People call these storage solutions "the Cloud" because the files are not physically stored on your computer or on the network owned by your employer. They are stored "on the Internet"/server farms for the organizations like Dropbox, Apple or Google.
Here's how migrating to the Cloud has helped me:
All of my files are now available very quickly from every device I use (phone, iPad, laptop, desktop). Unlike the OPRF User Drive, I don't have to go through a process of accessing the school website and then logging into Remote Access.
I can find old files faster than before. Why? Two features on Google Drive make it easy to locate specific files: the search feature and the "recent" function.
It is so much easier to collaborate with others. Instead of emailing versions of docs, I can send a quick link and all of my collaborators can jump right into the document.
Efficiency. Boom.
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| Pictures of Google Server Farms throughout the world |
Over the last two years, I have migrated my work and personal documents to the web. This change has helped me to become less stressed and more collaborative.You may be asking yourself, "What on Earth are you talking about? You moved your stuff where?" What I mean is that instead of keeping all my documents, spreadsheets, powerpoints, pdfs on my User Drive….
I can find old files faster than before. Why? Two features on Google Drive make it easy to locate specific files: the search feature and the "recent" function.
It is so much easier to collaborate with others. Instead of emailing versions of docs, I can send a quick link and all of my collaborators can jump right into the document.
Efficiency. Boom.
