Cloud – Page 21 – Taxodiary

Cloudy with a chance of crab cakes

By Melody Smith | May 25, 2015

(Note: Back in November of 2013, TaxoDiary published the post “A Cloud Drifting Toward a Classification“, about the cloud formation tentatively labeled as Asperatus undulatus and the quest to achieve an official classification for it. The article below, which first appeared in the Apalachicola Times on April 8, 2015, focuses on matters of terminology concerning…

Accessing the Clouds

By Melody Smith | May 12, 2015

The cloud has become a daily part of our nomenclature. It is the infinite storage location, easy to access archive, and secure hideaway of data. With this kind of prominence comes competition.

Choosing Storage Carefully

By Melody Smith | May 6, 2015

Cloud storage is fast becoming the desired solution driving users’ decisions. It seems like the perfect answer to a complicated space issue. However, there are some factors around cloud storage that would behoove anyone considering it to remember.

Searching the Clouds

By Melody Smith | December 30, 2014

The cloud storage industry is centered on managing the demands of big data. In this process, cloud technology vendors are moving to better search abilities as well as organizing the vast amount of data collected.

Moving On Up

By Melody Smith | October 9, 2014

Moving is never fun. All the packing, all those boxes, and then carrying it all to the clouds. What?

Airlines in the Clouds

By Melody Smith | September 5, 2014

AirVault recently announced that Frontier Airlines has licensed the AirVault Records Management Solution as its new, web-based record management system for aircraft maintenance and business operations.

Data Storage in Today’s Environment

By Melody Smith | July 28, 2014

We have all heard the story about the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official who while under investigation for allegedly mistreating Tea Party groups seeking tax exemptions, lost copies of her emails when her hard drive crashed. There are many questions about this that come to mind, but the most practical one would be – why is she backing up emails on a PC? The government has what appears to be unlimited resources when it wants it, yet they don’t have such easily accessible technology as cloud storage?

Streamlining the Search

By Melody Smith | July 21, 2014

Modern records management is in a process of evolution. Many organizations, including private, public and government, have begun to digitize, because maintaining paper and digital records together is no longer feasible. Manually indexing is just too difficult and time consuming, so a tool is needed to accomplish this goal. However, it is more than just indexing. Streamlining the discovery portion is as important, if not more important.

Moving to the Cloud Allows for More Creative Room

By Melody Smith | July 16, 2014

Open source native software libraries for Android and iOS have been released by Cloudant for developers to manage and replicate mobile application data on phones, tablets, and other occasionally connected devices.

Reaching Into the Clouds

By Melody Smith | June 20, 2014

Most organizations, regardless of their size or tenure, do not realize the difference between robust document management and “folders in the cloud.” Making content findable is the goal of any document management strategy.