<p><a href="http://connectedsocialmedia.com/category/the-personal-cloud/">Intel  – The Personal Cloud</a>: The personal cloud is elevating the IT capabilities of small businesses and giving them the power of next generation storage innovations. An IDC Digital Universe Study confirms the data explosion: an estimated 1.8 trillion gigabytes were created in 2012. By 2020 that could grow 50 times in volume. The personal cloud will be an important tool for small and home offices &#8211; and anyone with large amounts of data &#8211; to store and manage information.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ConnectedSocialMediaPersonalCloud/~4/ctBSkPueSWI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Intel targets greater than 60-percent utilization and deploys Intel Xeon processor-based file servers to support data storage growth.

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.