I was first introduced to about 2 years ago at Macworld. But I slid into the allure of a Minty Cloud We use Dropbox for file sharing and storage, and our DropBox is included in our normal back-up routines too.Īnd some things we just never trust to the cloud. We use Evernote for storing receipts and information we gather, but carefully sync to two computers where the data is included in our back-up routines. We still utilize a locally hosted office suite for documents created for clients. But this must also be balanced with realizing the cloud isn’t always a replacement either.įor instance, we use Google Docs, but only for things that aren’t of critical importance where the benefits of sharing documents outweigh the risk. There’s a level of freedom and extra security in not having everything be local on a laptop or external drive that can easily be stolen or damaged in the course of our travels. Can you really trust the company to do no evil with your data?įor the most part, we’ve been very conscious of the cloud services we use – fully realizing and accepting their shortcomings, while appreciating the added dimension they add for us as mobile professionals.What about if the company has a failure that makes your data unavailable, or worst, they go out of business?.
A company offers a service, they provide the hardware, manpower and tools to host your data. Everything from back-up services, note taking, file sharing, document creation, e-mail, blogging and finances. There’s a predominance of cloud based services that are tempting to embrace, particularly for us digital nomads looking to offload the burden of maintaining systems ourselves.
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