Map a Drive to Google Cloud Storage

Google Cloud Storage was Google Storage for Developers in the Google Lab. It has since graduated out of the lab and officially became the Google Cloud Storage.

In this article, we discuss an easy way to use Google Cloud Storage right from your Windows Explorer interface, with a mapped network drive.

If you are not familiar with Google Cloud Storage yet, you can start at https://developers.google.com/storage/.

Step 1 – Activate Google Cloud Storage

Before you can use Google Cloud Storage, you will need to at least have a Google account. If you use GMail, Blogger, Picasa or Google Apps, you already have a Google account.

You can then activate it at https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/signup

Amazon S3’s Exponential Growth

In a recent Amazon Web Service Blog, It is quoted that Amazon S3 has reached over 762 Billion objects at the end of 2011. We have been following Amazon S3’s growth closely. As usual, we will plug the numbers in an Excel spread-sheet and see its growth in a chart.

Double Every 8 Months

 

Getting Started with EMC Atmos Backup

EMC Atmos is used in many places now. It is used by well know service providers such as AT&T Synaptic Storage or Peer 1 CloudOne. As we learned from our customers recently, it can also be used by private enterprise to backup data from employee’s local C drive.

The scenario is simple, there are many employees that need to do backup from their desktops. EMC Atmos becomes the center piece where the backup data goes to. Since it is cloud storage software-capable, it can be used from both inside the company and also from over the Internet.

Who doesn’t want an easy backup solution like that, where the IT Admin of the company has full control of the data and all the backup data is contained in one Atmos instance?

This article documents an easy setup of using Gladinet Cloud Desktop as the desktop backup solution connecting into the on-site EMC Atmos Storage.

Getting Started with AT&T Synaptic Storage Video

Here is a YouTube HD video for getting started with AT&T Synaptic Storage and Gladinet Cloud Server. It shows how to connect from a Windows 2008 Server to Synaptic Storage and share the Synaptic Storage as a network share to a group of users. (Best viewed with 1280x720 HD option)

Related Posts

Getting Started with AT&T Synaptic Storage

Getting Started with AT&T Synaptic Storage

This article shows how Gladinet Cloud Server makes it easy to access AT&T Synaptic Storage. Before you begin, we recommend that you have your credentials for AT&T Synaptic Storage. This will be done in four steps:
1.    Download and Install Gladinet Cloud Server.
2.    Create a Gladinet Account.
3.    Attach AT&T Synaptic Storage to Gladinet Cloud Server.
4.    Publish the attached storage for use on your network.

Download and Install Gladinet Cloud Server

Click here to start the download: http://gcloud.gladinet.com/p/download_cloud_server.htm .

Select the 32-bit or 64-bit download based on your system and after the download completes, select “Run”.

HTML 5 Multi-File Upload to Gladinet Cloud

In the New Features for the New Year article, we mentioned the new HTML 5 and Flash based Multiple-File upload. This article will cover the new feature in more detail.

In the Gladinet Cloud for Teams product, There are 4 different ways to connect and use the cloud storage, from the desktop; from a file server; from web browser or from a mobile phone.

Web-Based File Explorer may be the most convenient way to access files, however, compared to the native clients on desktop, file server or iPhones, it may have more limits imposed by the web browser, since web browser was designed to sand-box things running inside the browser so it only have controlled access to the local files.

HTML 5 makes it easy to do drag and drop upload from local files to web browser and then upload to cloud storage. Currently Firefox and Chrome support drag and drop upload.  For all other browsers, they will use Flash-Based multiple file upload.

1. HTML 5 Multiple Upload

When you logged into Gladinet Cloud (from gladinet website, follow the login button on top navigation bar), at any empty folder, you will see a Drop Files Here hint box, which will not show if the browser doesn’t support drag and drop file upload.

Gladinet Cloud for Teams Video–Share Folder and Files

As part of the new features for the new year series, here is a 5 min HD video documenting the Gladinet share folder and share file features.

Share Files with Anyone Using Gladinet Cloud

Sometime ago, we covered how an admin can create a team folder for the team members to share and collaborate. The concept there was more like a file server kind of sharing, where everyone on the team sees the same folder.

In the new features for the new year article, we mentioned there is new sharing feature, which allows you to share files and folders on-demand.

This article covers on-demand sharing. When you have an urge to attach big files and big folders to an email and send to someone else, you can use Gladinet Cloud for that (without the email attachment part). Especially for the sharing of folders, it is so much easier than zip everything up and send to someone in email.

Step 1 – Login to Gladinet Cloud and Share

On the www.gladinet.com website, you can click the LOGIN link to login. After that, you can browse to a folder that you want to share and click the Share folder … menu.

Gladinet Cloud iOS App for Team Edition

Today the Gladinet Cloud iPhone & iPad application shows up in the Apple iOS App Store. It is an important feature addition to the Gladinet Cloud for Teams. The native iOS application allows Team Edition users easily browse and view their files and folders in the Gladinet Cloud.  In addition to the cross-browser web client, the PC desktop client, the file server virtual file system client, now there is Gladinet iOS client.

 

After you download and install the iOS client, the first screen is the login screen.