C L O U D S T O R A G E & A P P L I C AT I O N S - N A P L E S M U G J A N 2 5 2 0 1 6

Hubble telescope images

A G E N D A

• What are some definitions?

• What is iCloud? What does it do & how does it work?

• What are these other clouds we hear about?

• How do we use clouds to our advantage?

• What are some pitfalls to watch out for?

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W H AT E X A C T LY I S A C L O U D ?

THINK OF IT AS A DISC DRIVE IN THE SKY:

• Data storage

• Image storage

• Returnability

• Flexibility

• Fast

• Risk of failure

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BUT IT IS DIFFERENT IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:

• It is actually more fluid

• Suppliers have to maintain security

• Not as fast/available sometimes

• Redundancy

• Confidentiality

T H E R E A R E M A N Y W O R D S B E I N G U S E D N O W -

• PRIVATE clouds - In house - Sourced

• PUBLIC clouds

• PERSONAL clouds - In house - Out house

• “Anonymous” Clouds - Associated with a product/application

- and not called cloud at all

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Déjà vu - terminals/mainframe - client/server

iCLOUD

What is iCloud?

How do I get it?

What does it do?

How does it work?

I C L O U D C O M E S W I T H E L C A P I TA N /Y O S E M I T E

I N S Y S T E M P R E F E R E N C E S/ I C L O U D

•S I G N I N W I T H A P P L E I D

•S E L E C T T H E F U N C T I O N S Y O U WA N T T O U S E

I C L O U D D R I V E S T O R E S T H E D O C U M E N T S Y O U C H O S E

P I C K I C L O U D P H O T O S O P T I O N S

D D D

M A N A G E T H E A M O U N T O F S T O R A G E I C L O U D U S E S

A P P L E I S A LWAY S W I L L I N G T O S E L L U S M O R E S T O R A G E O N T H E I R S E R V E R S /

I C L O U D

O N M A C S I C L O U D D R I V E I S I N F I N D E R : M AY B E O R G A N I Z E D B Y A P P L I C AT I O N

T H E S A M E P R I N C I P L E S A P P LY O N I D E V I C E S

• Part of iOS 8/9

• iCLOUD DRIVE Icon on our iDevices

• Download from the App Store

• Free

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U S E Y O U R A P P L E I D T O S E T U P

I C L O U D

• Set up which apps you want to store on iCloud across your devices

• helpful if they match your MAC

• Other apps can also use iCloud

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S E T U P I C L O U D B A C K U P O N

I D E V I C E S

• Backup to iCloud

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H O W D O E S I C L O U D B A C K U P Y O U R D E V I C E S ?

Pay attention to the language Apple uses:

- most important data

- full backup16

A P P L E D E F I N E S I T C L E A R LY I N S E T T I N G S /

I C L O U D / B A C K U P

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G E N E R A L / U S A G E T E L L S A B O U T :

• iCloud memory - remember that all devices use this storage, even old ones

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B A C K U P I S D I F F E R E N T T H A N W I F I S Y N C F O R I D E V I C E S

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A C C E S S I C L O U D F R O M A N Y

B R O W S E R U S I N G A P P L E I D

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H O W C A N W E R E C O V E R I C L O U D D E L E T I O N S ? S E T T I N G S / A D VA N C E D / R E C O V E R F R O M W E B

B R O W S E R

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R E C O V E R F I L E S / C O N TA C T S /C A L E N D A R S / R E M I N D E R S W I T H I N

3 0 D AY S !

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D E M O N S T R AT I O N - W H AT C O N C E R N S M I G H T W E H AV E A B O U T I C L O U D D R I V E

•Preview folder is there but not on iDevices •It can not handle large numbers of documents well

• Has trouble syncing sometimes •Makes duplicates sometimes •Be sure syncing is finished before shutting down -Get partial documents instead completed ones

•Save documents to desktop before deleting23

B U T, T I M E M A C H I N E W O R K S O N I C L O U D D R I V E F I L E S

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W H O O F F E R S C L O U D S ?

• Basically everyone!

• They want our stuff as a vehicle

• Then they sell us storage space, services or hardware

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AMAZON

GOOGLE

IBM

MICROSOFT

A D O B E E V E N O F F E R S D I F F E R E N T K I N D S O F C L O U D S !

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CREATIVE CLOUD

DOCUMENT CLOUD

A D O B E . C O M I S T H E E A S I E S T WAY T O T R A N S F E R

P D F S F R O M D E V I C E T O D E V I C E

• Free

• Download Adobe to your device

• Save documents to adobe.com and recover them on other devices

• You need an email and password to use it

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W H AT D O T H E Y L O O K L I K E O N O U R I D E V I C E S ?

• Icons

• Sometimes by subject

• All are free in the App Store

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W H AT D O T H E Y L O O K L I K E O N O U R D E V I C E S ?

• On the Mac they appear in Finder

• DropBox is just another Cloud

• Get them from the various sites and download to your Macs/PCs

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F O L D E R S A P P E A R I N F I N D E R J U S T A S A H A R D D R I V E W O U L D

E X C E P T T H E Y A R E I N T H E U P P E R S E C T I O N

Google drive

M I C R O S O F T O N E D R I V E

• HARD TO USE OTHER DOCS THAN OFFICE

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A M A Z O N C L O U D D R I V E

• OFFERINGS ARE SIMILAR TO GOOGLE AND APPLE

• SEND TO KINDLE DOCS FOLDER

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H O W D O W E S T O R E T H I N G S I N T H E VA R I O U S C L O U D S ?

• Clouds appear as any external disk would appear

• Finder features work as expected: move, copy, rename, new folder

•Appears in Open, Save, Share dialogs for any application, not just Apple applications

•Can create folder hierarchies in Cloud Drives • DEMONSTRATION

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H O W D O W E U S E C L O U D S ?

• Store info that you want to have access to across devices

• Many apps are now using the cloud to store their application’s products

• Makes it easy to do “work” in our mobile world

• Makes it easy to transfer materials from one device to another without cables and “hooking up” to our computers

H O W D O W E U S E C L O U D S ?• Use it to easily transfer materials across platforms

• Apple uses it

• For FIND MY IPAD and IPHONE

• For Backups

• For people to find our location

• Google uses it to track us, find our likes and dislikes and position ads to us

• Amazon uses it for Amazon Prime and Kindle35

H AV I N G S A I D T H AT, A R E T H E R E A N Y P I T FA L L S ?

• Some suppliers may not support all document formats - e.g Microsoft/Apple or Dropbox/Apple

• Be careful of hidden charges and automatic renewals

• Be careful to save items before deleting them

• Once you delete they go away (sometimes)

• So move them to your desktop or folder somewhere to save them permanently

T H A N K S F O R L I S T E N I N GMartyDorio13@iCloud.com

Many thanks to Jeff Bohr and George Rubin for their inputs to this course