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Permanent Digital Storage
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Website	http://livingstory.com/
Specialization	Permanent storage of personal digital data
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LivingStory.com is a commercial company providing permanent digital storage of data on a consumer basis, paving way to the usage of cloud computing for storing personal information. Enabling the facility of digital permanence for personal data, through cloud computing.

Such arrangements make it easier of individuals to store their priceless personal data in a safe place to be accessed as and when needed. Using the internet stored data can be used from any part of the world, similar to using a hotmail or yahoo email account.

Though the concept of digital data storage was unimaginable around a decade ago today it has become an necessity of all running businesses. Cloud computing, solves all problems related to digital data storage and garantees safety and accessible to the enormously large quantities of data at any given time. This concept is being used by large companies to store their data , software, programs and making it available to the entire network without actually occupying space.

The relatively new concept of cloud computing is now being made available on individual bases for digital data storage. Companies or service providers are making it possible for individuals or families to have digital permanence of personal data and easily accessible for life.

Necessity to Preserve Personal Data

People need to save their personal information, work, academic information, creative multimedia work, collections and much more permanently for future reference. As everyone thing is priceless and a result of hard work or love.

All financial information is stored in computers including bank account numbers, important passwords, tax and property details, accounts and any essential information which is bulky or cannot be memorized. These are real essential information's, digital documents or records which could be required by individulas and their families anytime in the future.

Medical files, medical reports and all health records are digitally stored on your PC, and they need to be kept safe for future reference.

Personal collections like photographs, music, movies, private letters, emails and several other things which are valued by individuals.And digital permanence is desired of this personal data to preserve it for life and more.

Wedding videos, home video]s, videos of personal events and professional achievements, personal photographs can easily be stored digitally on a PC or a hard disk. They are meant for digital permanence or years of storage.

Writings, novels, articles, poems, songs or any important work which is the result of hardwork, patience or love too needs to be preserved.

Methods of Archiving Data

There is no surety of the safe keeping of any digital data on a daily basis. People generally try and safe all important information on a computer, although they known that any computer is going to get outdated in a few years and more advanced replacement will be required later. People are always looking for a computer with more storage space to shift all the information of the old one on to the new PC. Several times a failure of a drive could lead to loss of all the data, which was saved and preserved for years.

Many use CD’s or DVD’s to store certain data’s, treating it as a spare copy or safe copy. Unfortunately these storage devices get spoiled. They are non functional after 3-5 years because of several, reasons. Many times people just transfer the data, label it and the keep the CD's and DVD's in boxes,forgetting about them totally. Just like all the photo albums, books and other stuff which is stored in boxes and never found when needed or it could be just forgotten about totally. Another factor is that technology is advancing and data storage devices like CD's and DVD's might actually become outdated within a few years. This will make your data unusable in the future.

Backup files are usually created to store data. This does work as good long term archive for personal digital data. However this could be a reliable way of storing data only for a certain period of time and not permanently. Long term storage in this way could lead to loss of data because of sudden hardware malfunction. Damage to the hardware would automatically destroy all computer files, including the backup files. At times people accidently overwrite their own created backup files, again destroying data. This makes the backup method unsafe for long term.

Few people keep a copy of their important files on the internet, meaning that they use an online email account (Hotmail, Gmail,Yahoo, etc) to store all their information, making use of the unlimited space. Some even send important files to a family member or trusted friend using an email. This is to keep a spare copy of all important information or data, for emergency usage. However it is well know that the internet is not a safe place for any personal information to be stored. User accounts could be hacked or closed without any warning or due to death of a person.

Another more recent way of saving photos or videos is to upload them on a social networking site, like YouTube, Facebook, etc. Photos could easily be uploaded as a shared album on Windows Live Spaces, Flickr, Zooomr, etc. The danger here is that the data might get over exposed and even changed by others. User accounts can be closed because of violation of the policies of the website.

None of the online storage methods are foolproof. The most common reasons for loss of personal digital data are:

Discontinuity of any service
Deactivation of an user account
IST and IT policies of a site not know to the user
Data loss due to hacking, policy raids or death of an account owner

The biggest problem of personal stored digital data is that peopel fail to revive it after a period of time. Failure to label things properly and carelessness in storing the data could lead to loss of data forever. If archiving was taken care of properly then all would be fine.

Provisions

All the precious personal data is not 100% safe on a Pc or laptop or any storage device. The failure of commondigital storage devices is nullified by remote storage of personal data as in cloud computing.

Safe storage of data is necessary not only for the big businesses and companies but also for the consumers. Better and more efficient data storage facilities are always being looked up by people for digital permanence of personal data. Making this possible for the consumers is a break through.

The major problem of digital storage] is solved by cloud computing. The intirigty of the stored data is checked regularly. Service providing companies work towards preserving the digital data in its authentic form and garantee against detioration. More than one copy of the personal digital data is made by the service providing company, any detioartion of data is replaced by a new copy. Living story is one of the few [[ http://orysa.com%7Ccompanies]] providng these services to the consumers for storage of all personal digital data.

This technique of permanent digital data storage is well organized. The service providers attend to the detailed labeling and categorization of the data. Helping individuals to store their personal digital data permanently and access it very conveniently when required. This keeps all confidential information safe, undamaged and unchanged, intact in its original form.

People no longer have to use different methods to store their digital data. Individuals also do not require to have several copies of their personal data in different places. Instead they could have one safe and permanent copy with a service provider for life.

Benefits

The facility of cloud computing, has a great scope for permanent storage of data . It gives total access to the data from anywhere in the world using the internet. This allows all personal digital data to be reached, copied, created, stored, edited or shared at any given time. Family members ane friends could also have an access to all the data.

This provision of digital permanence does not occupy real space. This is an amazing feature, where large quantities of personal data is stored remotely, leaving your PC's and other storage devices have ample space to carry out other activities.

Keeping the data safe is the responsibility of the service providing company and this is done efficiently.

Any deterioration of data is replaced by a fresh copy making all digital information doubly safer with the service providing companies.

This is the opening which allows the use of cloud computing for consumer needs or individual needs.

Features

The consumers generaly have to make a one-time-fee payment, for the permanent storage of data. This will sufficise for a life time of safekeeping.
The charges of personal cloud computing services are nominal.
The digital data storage capsules created for each user account by the service provider, will allow publication on death or at a predetermined date.
This kind of storage assures the conversion of digital data in readable or usable file format in the future.
It ensures permanent storage of all personal precious digital data.

Understanding

Storage Devices	Methods of Storage	Dangers of loss	Safety level
Computers	Saving all data as files on Pc & Laptops	Hardware malfunction, failure of the hard disk	Not Very safe
Backup Method	Making backup files for all important things	Hardware malfunction, failure of hard disk	Safe for short term
CD’s & DVD’s	Copying all important data on to these storage devices	Will get lost because of improper archiving, outdated use of devices	Not safe for long term
Emails	Uploading files on the internet via email, sending files to a friend or family member as email	Hacking, Closure of an account	Not safe
Social networking service	Uploading photos and videos and sharing them	Over exposure of personal data, Closure of account, misuse or changes being made to the data	Not safe
Remote Storage	Storing data through cloud computing	None	Safe

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