<a href="http://connectedsocialmedia.com/category/the-personal-cloud/">Intel &#8211; The Personal Cloud</a>: Dave Helfrey loves to scare people. From December to June each year, he’s a mild-mannered freelance art director and illustrator in Portland, Oregon. But from July through November, he turns into <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Baron-Von-Goolo/143822772298407">Baron von Goolo</a>, the creative mind behind <a href="http://www.frighttown.com/">FrightTown</a>, one of the biggest and best haunted attractions in North America.
What started out as a garage event has turned into 40,000 square feet of terror at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum near downtown Portland each October. As Helfrey has grown the attraction, the size and complexity of his digital assets has also grown. Tricks that used to be accomplished by an actor pulling a rope behind a screen are now fully automated. His team uses hundreds of programmable controllers, MP3 players, DVD players, speakers, lights, and other equipment to deliver FrightTown special effects—but the behind-the-scenes complexity was getting downright scary.
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The Personal Cloud: Finally, a Reliable Home Backup System

The power of the personal cloud offers small and medium business new ways to manage and monetize their vital business data and content. Bringing together your company’s important documents, customer data, marketing materials, and multimedia assets in one place, where you can access it anytime, on any device.

When you store something “in the cloud”, you are storing music, movies, documents and data on giant internet servers around the world. That way you can access your files wherever you are, whenever you want, on your laptop or smartphone or even a different computer. This is the basic concept of cloud storage.

A personal cloud is essentially your very own cloud storage. Unlike public clouds, a personal cloud allows you to keep all your content in one safe place on your home network so you can share files, stream media, and access your content anywhere.  The Personal Cloud channel will provide you with how-to information for setting up your own personal cloud that is private, secure and reliable.

You can create your own personal cloud by either using a Network Attached Storage (NAS) or by subscribing to an online cloud storage service. There are several advantages of using a NAS as your personal cloud. For example, there are no monthly fees or increasing costs as your data needs grow. Also, you know exactly where your data is and who has access to it in your personal cloud. 
 
Ever feel like setting up a problem-free data sharing environment at home is a headache? This podcast series will should you how to "Be Your Own Cloud" using technologies like the Synology DiskStation, a cost-effective data sharing solution that allows all your different devices to access the same data effortlessly. Subscribe to this podcast series now to see how the multimedia aspect of your life can be enriched by the new and interesting features.