Category: Cloud Storage

Amazon’s Unlimited Cloud Storage is now available in the UK for only £55 a year

John Aldred

It’s no secret to most people who know me that I’m not a huge fan of online cloud backup services. But I know many of my fellow UK photographers are. Amazon’s unlimited cloud storage launched in the USA in the middle of 2015. Now, Amazon have introduced the service to the UK, with prices starting at only £55/yr […]

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SmugMug rescues nearly 200 million photographs from closed cloud service Picturelife

John Aldred

My biggest problem with “the cloud” has always been that many cloud services seem to pop up overnight from nowhere. This means that they can also disappear just as quickly. This was the case with Picturelife, an image hosting service which was bought out by Streamnation last year. After 18 months of new ownership, Picturelife has […]

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360TB Disc that lasts 13.8 Billion years. Is this the future of data storage?

John Aldred

When the clouds evaporate and your DVD, Blu-Ray and hard drive backups are no longer readable, what are you going to do about accessing your data? Valuable personal images might be gone forever (of course, that’s also a good argument for printing your photos), or perhaps you shoot for a living, and keep a permanent archive of all your […]

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The Three C’s of File Management – Copy, Clone, and Cloud!

David J. Crewe

Editor’s Note: Please welcome David J. Crewe to the Photofocus team.  He’s a professional photographer from Chicago and we’re super happy to have him here.  Please post a welcome message in the comments or drop him a line. As a professional photographer in the digital age, protecting your data is one of the most important things […]