Thursday, January 22, 2015

Cloud Storage Manager

With so many cloud storage providers offering free storage, you're bound to have signed up for a few of them. Question now is, how do you keep track and manage all your files scattered out there? With online cloud storage managers, of course. Basically, you sign up for an account with the service. You register all your cloud storage providers with that service. Then, you can start managing your all your files from the different providers using one single interface.

When it comes to cloud storage managers, these are the more popular ones:
  • Primadesk aims to be the one-stop-shop for all your online services. Aside from cloud storage, it can also manage your social, photo, and email accounts. It also supports cross-service file transfers. The only downside is the lack of OAuth support. This means that you have to provide Primadesk with login information for all registered services. Primadesk is from the guys who created ZoneAlarm. Give that I don't use ZoneAlarm, I've decided not to use this, too.
  • JoliCloud has been around for a while. It first started out as an Ubuntu distribution for netbooks with strong emphasis on cloud integration/services - pretty much like ChromeOS. Their cloud storage manager is called Drive. The UI looks pretty neat and slick. It supports OAuth, . It can handle your social accounts in a unified feed. It supports file previews and built-in MP3 player. Does not support cross-service file transfers. There's only a limited number of services you can register. If you want more, you have to do some social media shares promoting the service.
  • Otixo is pretty much the same as JoliCloud's Drive. Supports OAuth AND cross-service drag-and-drop file transfers. At the moment, it only allows for 5 file transfer at a time between services for the free account.
For now, I'm trying out both JoliCloud Drive and Otixo. In terms of UI and features, I'm leaning more towards Drive.

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