Cloud Computing Big Data

An Associated Press investigation (AP) has been conducted and found that a group of cyberspies from Russia tracking the secrets of U.S military drones and some other technologies deluded the key workers to release their e-mails to the theft.

It is still not clear about what has been stolen, but this incident really showed up the weaknesses of U.S cybersecurity: the mails are not well-protected and there is little notification to the victims.


The AP also found out that these hackers, known as the Fancy Bear, had interfered the U.S election, attacked 87 people who were responsible for  military missiles, fighter jets, drones and cloud computing platforms. Many workers in both small and big organizations such as  Boeing Co., Lockheed Martin Corp., Raytheon Co., and Airbus Group are the targeted victims of hackers. A few members of the Fancy Bear even worked for trading groups in US’s allied countries.

The security targets were recognized by the AP through over 19,000 phishing emails created by hackers and they were collected by U.S cybersecurity company Secureworks. The data in those emails was divided and lasted from March 2015 to May 2016 only. About 40 percent of the employees clicked on the phishing links in the emails, and that initially allowed the cyberspies to open their personal account and computer.

Previously, the Fancy Bear was reported to intrude into the Gmail of Hillary Clinton Election campaign, U.s national security officials, Kremlin opposites and journalists all over the world.  The U.S CIA have summed up that the cyberspies worked for Kremlin and purloined the mail accounts to support Donald Trump in the 2016 Election, but President Vladimir Putin denied it all.

However, the hackers had more intentions than that. Of 87 people identified by the AP, fifteen worked on military drones. Giants like Russia are on the race to develop drones technology into remoted-controlled aircrafts that can monitor specific targets for a long time or even fire missiles to attack, which means safety for the pilots.

Currently, more and more drone pilots are required by the U.S Air Force than other kinds of aircrafts. Experts believe that the invention of drones will significantly stimulate the growth of aerospace industry to a new level. The production is predicted to rocket from $4.2 billion to $10.3 billion.

In fact, Russia seems to have been left behind since the invention of U.S Reaper drone. This mega –drone can fly over 1000 miles (about 1,600 kms) carrying Hellfire missiles and bombs. It has already been used in fights in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

The cyberspies went after the E-mail of Michael Buet, who is an engineer working for SunCondor. They worked on designing and producing ultra-durable batteries and high altitude drones. Considering Russia’s vast border frontier and military engagements aroud the world, aircrafts like these would be  a great surveillance implement.

Moreover, the Fancy Bear also aimed at the Arlington, Virginia-based Aerospace Industries Association, by hacking into the Gmail accounts for the president Eric Fanning and several members. One of the targets was Lt. Gen. Mark Shackelford, who had experience in aerospace industry and had involved in multiple weapon and space projects such as SpaceX founded by tech millionaire Elon Musk.

Hackers also followed the footsteps of specialists who worked in cloud computing services and computer networks to allow easy access and spread phishing data. In 2013, the CIA agreed a $600 billion contract with Amazon Web Service to create a safe platform for sharing data among U.S Intelligence community. Last year, the Governments had to clear all the cyerspies and kept those data in the nearly highest level of security, just a level  below national sensitive information.

The target list that Fancy Bear aimed at somewhat indicated that Russia has always kept an eye on these developments. The Gmails of  a Palantir cloud compliance officer the manager of SAP National Security Services cloud platform were broken into by hackers. Mellanox Federal Systems, which proves the U.S government with high-speed data storage, data analysis and cloud computing, was also the victim of cyber attacks.

Cybersecurity specialists claim that it is not suprising that hackers started with private emails because they are the key to more secure Governmental systems.  “For a good operator, it’s like hammering a wedge,” Richard Ford, the chief scientist at Forcepoint company said in a release.

Jerome Pearson, a spacecraft and drone developer, admitted that he has not paid much attention to security training for his staff at  Star Technology. And he included that these training might be featured in the future contracts.

Several officials showed their dissatisfaction with the tardiness of notification to those employees of cloud computing companies, which are responsible for handling data from Intelligence Agencies. “At some point, wouldn’t someone who’s responsible for the defense contractor base be aware of this and try to reach out?” Sowell, the former consultant at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  asked.

To tell the truth, due to the downfall of Russian economy, these cyber attacks seem  useless to bring about new modern weapons for this country. However, though Russia is still behind the USA, they have already been producing more sophisticated drones lately, which were available in some battle zones like Syria or Ukraine for surveillance.

In an aerospace affair outside Moscow last year, the plan for a new generation of fighting drones was publicized. The deputy prime minister Rogozin claimed that the technology gap between Russia and the U.S had gradually been bridged and in the near future it would be completely eliminated. What is the future of military drones and the tech race between Russia and the USA? Only time will tell.

Meta: Cloud Computing has become more and more popular among the society, and it has such a huge impact on our future that nobody should ignore. Let’s find out here!

Introduction

Ten years ago, Cloud computing was regarded as a complex phraseology that only the industry insiders could understand and talk about it. After a decade, the popularity of AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud and multiple other providers has made the term “cloud” more familiar with Internet users all over the globe. Most of us now recognize them as an essential service for daily work and entertainment.


Though the cloud is no longer a new aspect, its true potentials haven’t been completely realized. Let’s take a look below to see how cloud computing will affect our lives in the upcoming years.

Digital Infrastructure

Our future cities, where about 6 billion people will live by 2045, will be managed by the Cloud. Parking lots and elevators, self-driving cars and trains, power plants and farms, will be much safer and of higher quality with cloud management due to its capability to store and analyze data.

Regardless of the size and industry, the cloud will also be a crucial part of businesses, especially for the small and medium enterprises. Data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and many other services will be available for the different needs of each industry. In fact, Huawei, a global technology company, is working on the Industry Cloud project, which involves thousands of separate clouds to work together in a digital ecosystem of multiple different industries. For example, a banking cloud can help financial institutions to prevent fraud by scanning thousands of transactions per second; a utility cloud can fix the faults in the power station automatically to provide electricity for homes and businesses.

Artificial Intelligence

The cloud offers great support to the innovative technologies such as the Artificial Intelligence and allows them to access new platforms like mobile phones. Since 2011, smartphones have become the most popular computing platform, so it is not surprising that AI will make its way to mobile.

Cloud computing allows us to take advantage of Artificial Intelligence power.

However, smartphones contain a lot of text messages, photos, and emails, which are unstructured data.  It would take a lot of time and power to analyze those data, so it is impossible to do so on smartphones. Therefore, the data needs to be sent to the cloud servers, and unfortunately, it decelerates the response time of AI.

The best solution here is to divide the workload between the device and the cloud. The training process or in other words, how AI learns will take place in the cloud, where the power is profuse, and AI can learn very quickly. Meanwhile, the inference, where AI applied what it has learned to solve real-life problems, will take place on the smartphones.

Research by Huawei has claimed that smartphones will use the inference constantly. The intelligence allows them to immediately respond to voice commands, keep your photos well categorized and set your camera properly for perfect shots regardless of the conditions.

Data Management

To handle the rapidly-growing volume of data, cloud computing is the ultimate solution that we need. The data may include HD/UHD videos, which are predicted to occupy 89% of user traffic in the next 10 years.

The Cloud is changing the way we manage our data

In the future, the storage requirement and bandwidth will mostly be for “image and video content for non-entertainment purposes” – cites the IDC, rather than personal videos generated by Internet users. They are probably videos and advertisements used in applications. The IDC’s Data Age 2025 white paper also includes “productivity-driven” data like files on servers or PCs,  meta-data about web pages and the data used in machine-to-machine communication in the IoT. Fortunately, the cloud can help us to deal with this data storm and take advantage of it.

Automatic Vehicles

The future of driverless cars on the streets is still a big human dream, but it is not far away with the support of Cloud computing technology.

In fact, self-driving vehicles often come with many sensors and cameras, which will receive a lot of data from the environment. Most of the process will happen inside the vehicle in real time, but a variety of tasks such as machine learning or software updates need to take place in the cloud.

An autonomous car like this will be available in the near future.

Particularly, the video will soon become an outstanding feature of future cars, which not only provides entertainment but also allows drivers to observe other cars better, thus, enhance the public safety. In the fight against car theft and vandals, many cars are equipped with several security cameras as well as GPS. The video recordings can be stored in digital card inside the vehicle or uploaded to the cloud.

Conclusion

After decades, the cloud is no longer a riddle to everyone. It is becoming so popular that many of us would consider cloud computing just as normal daily services like electricity and water. You don’t need to understand the arcane stuff about the cloud to take benefits from it. But it is necessary to know that our future, not far away, will coalesce around the cloud.

Meta: Though Amazon, Microsoft and IBM have been among the most outstanding cloud vendors for years, they will follow different strategies to reshape the market in 2018.

Introduction

For many years, three heavyweights Amazon, Microsoft and IBM are still among the biggest cloud service providers in the world. With the aim to grow up and dominate the cloud market, it is obvious that each vendor will follow different strategies that are associated with their resources and capabilities.


However, their impact will revolve around some critical initiatives which have the potential to reshape the cloud market in the upcoming years. In fact, these initiatives are the result of cloud computing evolution, which moves the cloud closer to customers and gets away from jargon bluster and technical discussions like the early beginning of the cloud marketplace. That would be a very crucial step for enterprise cloud computing companies to grow. And fortunately, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM, with the total 2017 revenue of over $16 billion, seem to do it the best with their customer-centric culture.

Let’s take a look at some initiatives that those three cloud vendors will focus on in 2018 to reshape the cloud marketplace in the near future:

• End-to-end management of the entire digital property and asset becomes viable within the cloud.
• The emergence of new technologies such as containers or Machine Learning provokes customers to access open approaches.
• The multi-cloud environment becomes popular and easy-to-use, but effective solutions will enter the marketplace.
• The diverse demands of businesses are well satisfied with a large range of cloud-based solutions and tools. For instance, customers will have more choice of the cloud data set, not just the high-end premium database. 
• The cloud vendors should leave back the tech-obsessed language and provide their customers with understandable information.
• The cloud industry must make changes in itself to meet customer’s new demand and need instead of focusing on the complicated and irrelevant phraseology. 

Considering those areas, I strongly believe that Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM are the three leaders in the cloud transformation war. Let’s scroll down to find out why:

Amazon

Amazon Web Service CEO Andy Jassy has shown his desire to take the company to the emerging cloud segments beyond their leading IaaS with the combination of cloud-based technology of AWS with the customer-first breakthroughs of the parent company Amazon. Their goal is to provide users with a better, less expensive and easier-to-use than what they have.

AWS doesn’t just want to extend their dominating IaaS.

Because Amazon doesn’t have the breadth and depth expertise in enterprise software like Microsoft or IBM, their strategy is not to become a complete IaaS, PaaS and SaaS provider, but to promote and combine their outstanding customer engagement with their internal cloud-based technology.
Instead of only focusing on their IaaS segment, Amazon wants to become the Innovator’s Enabler with new approaches for their customers. This strategy will force other cloud service providers to relinquish the easy and foreseeable approaches and focus more on the new things.

Microsoft

CEO Satya Nadella claimed that he always builds the company remarks based on the opportunities as well as challenges that businesses face in this era. He doesn’t want to make the audiences confused with his technological knowledge, but does show his understanding of their current situations. They all want a digital transformation in their business; they want to change their business management for A to Z so as they can meet the demands of customers who have a rapidly-changing digital life, and they are encountered with huge pressure to attain these goals along with the need of enhanced cybersecurity.

Microsoft has a deep understanding of customer’s insight

Unlike the other cloud vendors CEO, Nadella doesn’t attempt to persuade business owners to adapt their operating models to that cloud. Instead, he concentrated on how businesses can create new operating models coalesce around customer’s demand with the support of a customer-first cloud vendor and end-to-end cloud service.

IBM

In 2018, IBM will turn 107 years old, compared to the 45-year-old Microsoft and 20-year-old Amazon. What the IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has done is to promote the expertise of a century-old technology heavyweight and fill up the swaths in a relevant and modern way. It includes the journey began with the Watson Data Platform to cloud-plus-cognitive, then from the mainframes reconfigured to encrypt staggering volumes of information-in-motion, with the aim to bring more values to the business world and defend against continual cyber attacks.

IBM has regained their prestige as the best IT partner of businesses.

In fact, all of IBM major opponents are pursuing the same strategy: take their unique expertise and customer relationships to the cloud. For example, Salesforce leverage their CRM, SAP becomes successful with applications, Microsoft with platforms and Office, Oracle with databases. However, IBM still surpasses them all with an 8-billion-dollar business that allows their users to convert legacy apps and systems into cloud-compatible environments.

Their strategy has helped regain IBM’s prestige as a modern businesses’ IT partner with a cloud-based service offering great value to enterprises: Cloud plus Watson, Cloud plus AI and Cloud plus Cognitive.

Conclusion

In general, what enterprise customers need is not tech-obsessed discussion but a tempting plan that can help them to grow up. Fortunately, AWS, Microsoft, and IBM are still there to offer their amazing services. With different strategies and goals, the Cloud War among those three heavyweights doesn’t seem to come to an end soon, but it does look like a big change is going to happen in the upcoming year.

Cloud computing has made a huge impact on the way we manage our data and business process. But how will it change our management in the future? Let’s take a closer look here!

Introduction

Business management is always associated with the emergence of new technologies. Over the last decade, cloud computing has grown to be the most impactful innovation that requires enterprises to keep an eye on. But many people still have the same question: how can cloud computing change the way we manage things? In general, the alteration in management is all about the way information is collected.

Organizations are changing rapidly

Since the invention of the cloud, information can travel much faster across the computing systems which are far more flexible with several aspects like virtualization, automated security patching or scaling up to handle larger workloads. This will probably lead to a more supple work structure considering the aim to create products and service that can be adjusted to satisfy customer’s needs. The key here is data collection and analysis, as well as some changes in product software.

Enterprises are on the shift to the cloud

Moreover, a potential outcome of businesses migrating to the cloud is the change in how products are designed. The IT department would have more contact and collaboration with other units such as the sales, marketing, and finance. Customer interaction might also be improved significantly. For example, Chris Jackson, the Head of Cloud Platform department at the global learning company Pearson, claimed that his IT team had involved more on product design meetings to offer some advice on how the data should be collected, instead of just launching the software and doing the maintenance work as previously.

Public cloud-based services like AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud are regarded as cheaper but effective providers of data storage and process by many people. And the low cost might be the main reason why companies leave behind their data centers and consume attendant software. Others use cloud computing in their own data centers for faster working speed and increasing resources.

How cloud computing affects product design and customer

In general, the cloud has made it easier for companies to design the products or service directly on the cloud, as well as conduct better marketing campaigns. Businesses also prefer to use the cloud for new data storage and analysis. It is a common place where many AI operations are conducted like image and speech recognition.

As businesses start to recognize their products and services as software-centric, the data is repeatedly extracted from those entities. Adjustments and updates become a must in the constant process. Other organizational functions no long played a crucial role as the business processes become iterative.
Recently, there has been a project on a tablet-based system for conducting complex calculations in real time. It would take the developers at least six months to complete. But thanks to cloud computing technology that allows accelerated testing and direct communication with their customers, the product was created just after 10 weeks based on their specific demands about the construction and design.

What else can change?

It is not surprising to mention the constant relationship between business management and technology. But when will the cloud have the huge influence on management like mainframe or client-server? According to recent research by Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock, and Chad Syverson, it is suggested that major technology breakthrough may lead to a lag in productivity for many years. The reason for that statement is that we must build a new ecosystem for that innovative technology to grow, as well as think about how we should utilize for maximum efficiency. In fact, advances like the AI or the cloud-based software are believed to find their position in human life quickly. Low cost is probably one of the main reasons why they can be applied to real-life problems by young startups.

The migration to “cloud native” organizations

Cloud native software emphasizes the easy-to-use feature and that the alteration of application components has a low effect. The whole applications are divided into “micro-services,” which can be adjusted with little to no impact on the software.

The conventional software often requires big rewrites when people want to make a change because they have a series of “dependencies,” the relationships among different lines of code. If we change those micro-services into highly portable units called containers, the relationship is no longer a problem. This change allows developers to manage the applications from any place all over the world without troubles.

Kubernetes is one of the most popular cloud-native platforms that offers globally apps management.

Kubernetes is the most famous company that was developed by Google to help the parent company run global applications, adjust products with ease and fix software issues at a great scale. Kubernetes has been largely used by a variety of organizations and received positive feedback. Michael Francis, the Blackrock project leader, said that Kubernates allows them to manage thousands of processes transparently and solve problems more quickly. The online education company Pearson also uses Kubernetes for deploying and managing their new types of online learning systems in Mexico and India.

Conclusion

The immense growth of cloud computing has led to significant changes in business management and the organizations themselves. The IT teams have the opportunity to involve more in the product lifecycle and deserve a place in every meeting about the product design, where they can give valuable advice on how the data should be collected and analyzed to meet customers’ need. Managers will need to focus more on improving their skills including collaboration, learning, and empathy to make the organization more adaptive to new challenges.

People who belong to the group of neophobia, changing or moving is nearly impossible. In term of moving database, it’s still true to computer users or even to someone seeming to be clear-headed with any change. Due to the fact that it is involved with many other documents, indeed some are relatively important. However, even the most proactive person still hesitates whether they should transfer on-premises data to another different place, cloud. A plenty of people might call this action is to take the risk not only for their computer but also their work or even their life. That’s why the question of using only cloud-native databases or databases that both the cloud and on-premises can work on is taken into account.


The fact is that there are a plenty of discussions on choosing the cloud-native (it means “cloud-only”) or on-premises/ dual cloud.  We all know that in the perspective of a user, to come to the final decision is not easy as we thought as it still involves other issues of finance as well as operational efficiency. However, if you intend to use a cloud database, read on the lowdown below on how to pick the right one.

What is the superb news?

When we refer to the change of using a database, perhaps it will generate a plenty of different viewpoints because not every person is willing to try something new. As a matter of fact, a large number of IT companies do not have a habit of altering database regularly. They use a specific database in such a long time as a rule and of course, they don’t intend to stop using that one in the cloud.

However, what a huge pity, if you miss the relatively good news of the on-premises databases, are totally able to run on the cloud with a great performance.

Unfortunately, to some extent the cloud-native databases cannot entirely replace the position of traditional ones as this kind of database is seemingly just an alternative option. However, If you consider on-premises database not too crucial, let’s take a look at the cloud-native database.

Where are the upsides and downsides of cloud-native databases?

How much does it cost and how fast does it take are by far the most common questions that many people are wondering. Indeed, if your company is on a tight budget, any problem involved with money is always prioritized. Of course,  its performance is also put in a high priority.

The fact is two above-mentioned factors available on cloud-native databases as well while using services from the public cloud. Hence, all we need is to look for the right one that can match our preference but still affordable. Let’s make it clear.

• When we refer to the cloud-native databases’ negative parts, I surely know that many people will feel a sense of inconvenience. However everything usually comes up with both pros and cons, of course, not everyone can accept the drawbacks easily. Regarding of cloud-native databases, it comes with the disadvantages of when you desire to bring the data back to the premises the data have to be converted into the on-premises databases’ form. You might waste a little amount of time for doing this for sure.
• However, we cannot turn blind eyes on its advantages. The databases can certainly run both in on-premises as well as in the cloud. It greatly contributes to the convenience of users and helps them link data a mile a minute. It also means that the process of migration will be done at a great speed.
• Of course, cost always plays a vital part in any project. Measuring the total costs of databases is not too challenging. There are five types of the cost that you need to cover in the process of picking your right cloud databases. It will come with the DBA work (Database administrators usually use specific software with the aim of saving and managing data), backup and recovery (it mentions the process of data backed up if unfortunately, it loses), data integration (it takes responsibility of combining data from plenty of single sources into useful information), security (It plays an extremely important role in ensuring the safety of your databases), and the final one is DG (data governance has the goal of managing the availability, integrity, etc. of data in general). If you can measure these kinds of cost, everything will be much easier.
• If you do not follow the tenet of “You get what you pay for”, in another word, you don’t tend to prefer splurging on pricey stuff, I highly recommend a reasonable solution. Sometimes, an affordable solution can create a surprisingly amazing result that truly beyond our expectation. 

Frankly speaking, the cloud-native database is not a strange concept with many people, some have tried and applied to their project, some have just heard about it. However, I will suggest you give it a try to have a new experience on your computer.

Do you know about the merits of using cloud-native database? If not yet, why don’t you give it a try.

Meta description: The skill namely data analytics maybe something extremely advanced and macro to various people. Here’re some simple ways to conquer this skill.

Introduction

Good data analytics is the key to your success, especially in the increasingly developing world today. Therefore, improve this essential strategy will make you more competitive in increasing demands of the current labor market.


How often do you assess your data analytics? If you are still not confident enough to answer this question, it’s time to read this entire article provided with the simplest methods for effective data analytics.

If you are not good at data analytics, learn more about the proper training to help you improve your analytical skills right. Although good data analysis can’t be learned and enhanced overnight, it can be boosted faster with daily practicing.

We gave out top 7 habits to improve highly effective data analytics that can support your work, business, and life matters better. Let’s check it out!

How effective data analytics important to humans

Strength in the effective analytical skills will assist people in both your business and daily life. Regarding work, effective analytical skills will aid you to manage and execute your projects, get new ideas, and solve technical problems well.

If you have been spending years to find out the way for productive business without the little hope of success, take a look back at your data analytics. This skill was lowly appreciated and paid attention to in your life and work.

Think again to see if you did not invest properly in good data analytics or not. And, read through the lists of what an effective analytical skill will offer you as mentioned below.
Good analysis skills are extremely important to the human in:

• Good information gathering and reporting 
• Solutions for both simple and complicated  problems
• Support the making of important decisions
• Summary of big statistical data
• Determine the trends of the issue
• Streamline the workflow well 
• Increase the project effectiveness

What decides the success of people does not depend on the emotions but the right decisions. The better the decision is, the closer you are to succeed. Moreover, people with good analytical skills are closer to success than others.

These successful individuals can’t be influenced by their emotions, passions, or external effects. Instead, they know how to apply their analytical skills to overcome the challenges, no matter how complex or critical the difficulties are.

Top simplest ways to practice effective data analytics  

It is obvious that the right decisions will create the positive results whether you are running a business yourself or simply trying to gain promotion at work. Having sharp analytical skills will make your plans change in a whole new way.

There are a number of effective tricks to increase the ability to analyze data in studying and business. Enhancing your analytical skills will create more opportunities for your future development.

That’s why you need to seek yourself more aggressive and active data analytics proactively. Here are some suggestions on how to improve your data analytics.

Start reading more books

It is time to begin your reading adventures today and read books as much as you can. You may wonder if the real effects of book reading to the improvement of your data analytics because it is an extremely simple trick to apply.

However, we’re sure that you will be amazed by the hidden miracles inside this method. By asking several questions about what you’ve learned when reading books, you are progressing your brain thinking more than usual.

Another useful technique to enhance the ability of data analytics is to ask others questions and compare the writer’s views with your thoughts. Take note new ideas, thoughts, and achievements that you achieve after reading any book.

This active reading method will encourage your brain to acknowledge new information as well as allow you to think in several new ways.

Take a walk outside

You should better go out daily for a walk because this simple activity will help you improve your data analytical skills incredibly. Always remember to put your mind to the active state by observing carefully what you can see around.

And, think of things surrounding into detail too. Try to use your senses as much as possible and ask proper questions about what’s going on surround you.

How much information can you remember after a walk outside? Try to remember what you observed the previous day and rewrite them on your textbook the next day.

Practice Math-related games.

As much as we know, Math is the best subject for perfectly logical thinking and data analyzing skills. You should play some simple Math-related games such as Sudoku and logical, analytical games regularly.

Those fun game are good at speeding up the improvement of your data analytics.

Play games with the highly logical thinking skills

Add some games that require highly logical thinking skills on your favorite game list is also effective for better data analytics. Chess, Bridge card-game, and other brainstorming games with strategic moves are simple tricks for your mind.

Also, both Treasure hunts and Quizzes are extremely useful to increase your data analytical skill. These games are entertaining, interesting without any requirement to take too much effort for them.
Moreover, they help bring mild joy to the whole family with the great cohesion power if you play with your beloved family members.

Focus more on daily conversations. 

When talking to anyone face to face, you should ask him more questions and try to learn something brand new from them. New skills can be the best ways to deal with stress at work, how to develop a successful career or parenting experiences.

Asking questions regularly while talking is essential to keep you engaged actively in the conversation. You can also develop your better communication skills as well as making numerous new friends.

Conclusion

By improving and developing your data analytics, you will improve the completely different mind with new personal abilities. It is the direct way to add new knowledge, handle complex information, and give effective solutions for a successful career.

Thanks to data analytics’ benefits, we synthesize top simplest tricks to practice the skill for you. Remember to practice regularly because if you skip practicing regularly, failure may welcome you soon.

Description: Storing your music online is a great idea. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of online music storing and best places to store your music.

Personal cloud storage is no longer a stranger term for most of the Internet users. People use cloud storage to keep their applications and files safe. However, not every cloud platform can be a good place for storing music. Storing music online requires much more than just a folder to keep the music safe. Some features as the following:

• A built-in music player so that you can play music online
• A feature that allows users to download files to different devices. 
• Support for a wide range of file formats. 
• A feature that enables users to create playlists 

But before we get to the part of how to find a suitable cloud storage for music, the important question is whether you should upload your music online or not.

Should you store your music online?

Although storing music online is not popular and, to some cloud users, not necessary, cloud users could gain many benefits from using an online platform to keep their music. The advantages and disadvantages of using cloud storage for music will be discussed below.

The Advantages Of Storing Music Online

Increase accessibility to your music library:  Using the cloud increase your accessibility to your music playlists almost anywhere and anytime. Rather than using your smartphone or a storage device that might not be easy to carry around, you can utilize your existing cloud account for storing music With the help of the Internet and available features of your cloud service, you would be able to access your songs from any device.

Online cloud platform allows you to gain access to your music library.

Sharing music: You would probably contravene the copyright law if you directly distribute your music via P2P networks and other unauthorized networks. By sharing your music playlists from your cloud storage, you could legalize the sharing via famous social sites such as Facebook.

Music recovery: Another advantage of storing your music library online is you could recover your files in almost any cases, irrespective of natural disasters or the cloud’s downtime.

The Downsides Of Storing Music Online

It’s hard to access your cloud storage offline: You almost always need an Internet connection to gain access to your music online. Many cloud platforms allow you to access to your files offline, however, you still have to download the files and compensate a considerable amount of your device’s internal storage for those files. It could be the biggest disadvantage of storing your music online.

Security threats: Nothing is really safe online even though cloud providers are trying their best to ensure your upload files are safe. The only way to make sure your music is safe is through security credentials, especially password. Therefore adopting a strong secure password is essential to keep your cloud away from security threats.

Best Cloud Storages For Music

There are many cloud platforms, but not many of them are suitable to store music. The following sites are handpicked for their wonderful features and capacity to help you gain full access and use your music library online.

pCloud

pCloud provides free storage of 10GB for any new users. After verifying your email and complete some basic questions, you could upgrade your storage platform into 20GB for files and music. Besides its generosity, pCloud is famous for its features for music, especially playback and sharing features.

pCloud also automatically categorizes your music files into Audio and Video sections and at the same time sort the music library by song, artist, album. It applies to any playlists of yours.

Additionally, you can stream your music online, add songs to a queue and enjoy your music online without downloading them to your device. The sharing option is available, allowing you to share your music files as a folder or as a single file. Your friends can listen and download the music files without having a pCloud account. In case you accidentally delete your files, they stay in your account for 15 days. You can always look for your missing files.

pCloud offers free apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android.

Google Play Music

Unlike other cloud platforms, Google Play Music only provide you a limited space for music uploading. Though limited, the space is quite large, which allows you to upload up to 50,000 songs.  Google Play Music automatically classify your music files and playlists by artists, albums, and genres. It enables desktop notifications for any news during playback. You can even install a mini player on Chrome to play your music without opening Google Play Music. You could use a huge library of free podcasts, radio stations as well as free songs from Google Play Music.

Google Play Music is available on Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac.

MEGA

MEGA is also a great place to store your files if you're concerned that someone may hack into your account - this entire file storage service is built around privacy and security.

Though MEGA is not famous for its features for music storing, you can rely on the cloud’s privacy and security. MEGA offers 50G free for its users, so can upload as many music files as you like. You can upload a whole music folder and prevent network problems by using a feature called bandwidth control from MEGA. You can stream music in MEGA through a free mobile app.

MEGA apps are free for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux.