Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Map the Cloud Drives as your computer’s Network Drive

To access your cloud drives every time you need to open your browser and have to access it by entering the username and password. If the cloud drive could be accessed from the list of your local drives or network drives such as My Computer window in Microsoft Windows, then it would be much easier and flexible to access the cloud drives too.
Gladinet-logoGladinet is one such application, which has been developed to work the most popular cloud drives such as Amazon S3 US Bucket, Amazon S3 US-West (Northern California) Bucket, Amazon S3 US West (Oregon) Bucket, Amazon S3 EU (Ireland) Bucket, Amazon S3 Asia Pacific (Singapore) Bucket, Amazon S3 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Bucket, Amazon S3 South America (Sao Paulo) Bucket, Amazon S3 GovCloud (US) Bucket, Amazon S3 Compatible Storage, AT&T Synaptic Storage, Box.net, CA Stor Storage, Dunkel Storage, EMC Atoms Online, EMC Atoms Storage, FTP Server, FTP Server (Anonymous), Google Drive and Google Docs, Google Drive and Google Apps for Business (PRO), Google Picasa, Google Cloud Storage Bucket, HP Cloud, IBM SmartCloud Object Storage, Internap XIPCloud, KT ucloud storage, Local Disk, Network Resource, Nirvanix Storage, Open Stack Storage, Openstack Swift with Keystone Integration Auth v2.0, Peer1 CloudOne, Rackspace Cloud Files, Rackspace Cloud Files (UK), ServerExpress Storage, WebDav Server (Anonymous), WebDav Server (Generic), Windows Azure Blob Storage, Windows Azure Storage Emulator, Windows Live SkyDrive, as your computer’s network drive. It maps the cloud drives as your computer’s network drive. There are four editions of Gradient according to its usage plans, among which the Starter edition is free. The other three editions are Professional, Premium and Team Edition, which are chargeable and also the feature are more. The Premium and the Team editions also have iPhone or iPad clients and Mac Client. The Chargeable versions also have more other features (Please consult the Gladinet plan information page for more information of the chargeable versions).  (Also view: Share Large files up to 5GB without any signup with BayFiles )
However we will discuss about the Starter edition which is free. In the Starter edition the maximum limit is two, that is you can add maximum two Cloud Drives as your network drive.  You can add any two Cloud Drives from the above mentioned list, which you mostly use and having more storage capacity. If at any point of time, you need to access any other cloud drive as your network drive with the starter or free edition, then you have to Dismount any one of the already two mapped drives, and then have to map the other one, from the Management Console.
However few cloud drives providers such as Google Drive, Dropbox etc. are providing desktop application, which can be installed into the machine to map the cloud drives. But those applications are provider specific, that is you can not map Google Drive with the Dropbox application or vise versa. Thus Gladinet is just like one-stop application, with which you can map any cloud drive of your choice and you need not have to install individual mapping software for individual cloud drive provider. (Also view: Share or Transfer Files and Folders with Folders.io via P2P)
Installation and mapping of cloud drives via Gladinet is very simple. Here are the steps to map the cloud drives.
After successful installation of the Gladinet software in Microsoft Windows Operating System environment, you will get an icon of Gladinet Cloud desktop as shown below.
Gladinet Cloud Desktop icon
After opening the Management Console, you will be able to Add or dismount any cloud storage drive as shown below.
Gladinet Management Console
Once you click on the Attach Cloud Storage option, an window will open asking for which cloud drive you want to add, after selection the proper cloud drive you will be asked for the username and password.
Mounting virtual directory
Once the username and the password is validated, you will be able to view the cloud drive in your My Computer window.
My Gladinet Cloud Drive
Once you open the My Gladinet Cloud Drive you will be able to view, the cloud drive directory which you have already added from the Management Console.
Mapping of Cloud Drives

Thus to conclude, Gladinet is a very fruitful tool for those who are fond of using cloud drives and has to access cloud drives at a random.

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