Iomega Personal Cloud Overview
An Iomega Personal Cloud turns a Home Media Network Hard Drive into a hub for sharing data, playing games, and backing up data among computers
anywhere in the world. A Personal Cloud can exist on yours or someone else's Home Media Network Hard Drive. When you create a Personal Cloud, storage on
your Home Media Network Hard Drive is shared with any member computer you invite to join the cloud. A Personal Cloud allows you to securely connect
computers and storage devices across the Internet as if they are on a common home network. After you set up a Personal Cloud on your Home Media Network
Hard Drive, you can then invite members to join that Personal Cloud. After joining, members can access data, perform Copy Job operations, use your Home
Media Network Hard Drive as a QuikProtect remote target, stream media from your Home Media Network Hard Drive over the Internet, and use remote
desktop to access computers on the local network for your Home Media Network Hard Drive.
Iomega Personal Cloud Key Terms
The following are a few key terms to help get you started with a Personal Cloud:
Iomega Personal Cloud
— This is a setting configured on your Home Media Network Hard Drive Console that allows you to share storage, media
capabilities, and gaming, and allows you to network with computers around the world by turning your Home Media Network Hard Drive into a central
hub for these activities. To members that join the Personal Cloud, it appears that your Home Media Network Hard Drive is right in their own home or
office.
My Personal Cloud
— When you are the administrator of a Home Media Network Hard Drive, you create a Personal Cloud through the Home Media
Network Hard Drive Console and then invite members to join it. You create and manage the Personal Cloud on your Home Media Network Hard Drive
Console through the My Personal Cloud configuration option. The Personal Cloud that you administer is called My Personal Cloud.
Other Personal Cloud
— Someone else may invite your Home Media Network Hard Drive to join their Personal Cloud. If you want to have your Home
Media Network Hard Drive join that Personal Cloud instead of administering your own, select the Other Personal Cloud configuration option. Use the
access code and Personal Cloud name you received when you were invited to join the other Personal Cloud.
Joining an Iomega Personal Cloud
— To join your computer to someone else's Personal Cloud, you use the Iomega Storage Manager installed on your
computer. Refer to your email invite and the Iomega Storage Manager online help for details. You can only connect your Home Media Network Hard
Drive to one Personal Cloud at any given time, so you have to choose between either My Personal Cloud or Other Personal Cloud.
Members
— Members are the computers you have invited to join your Personal Cloud. Your computer can be a member of your own or someone else's
Personal Cloud if you have been invited to join, but your computer cannot be connected to more than one Personal Cloud at the same time. The
Personal Cloud is only useful if other computers can access it, but you do not want just any computer to access your Personal Cloud. To limit which
computers can access your Personal Cloud, you must explicitly invite member computers to join your Personal Cloud and provide each with a unique
access code created automatically when you add new members.
Access Codes
— When you add new member computers, such as your work laptop, a friend's computer, or an Iomega storage device, a unique access
code is generated for accessing a Personal Cloud. The access code is sent to members in an introductory email, and that access code is then entered in
the Iomega Storage Manager that is running on that computer. Any members that do not have the Iomega Storage Manager installed on their computers
can find instructions in the introductory email on how to download and install the Iomega Storage Manager to access the Personal Cloud. Administrators
can also locate the access code on the Iomega Personal Cloud page by selecting
My Personal Cloud
and looking under Membership. If someone invites
your Home Media Network Hard Drive to join their Personal Cloud, you can join their cloud through the Home Media Network Hard Drive Console. On
the Personal Cloud page, select the Other Personal Cloud configuration option to join your Home Media Network Hard Drive to their Personal Cloud
using the supplied access code.
An administrator should complete the following tasks to set up or join a Personal Cloud:
create a Personal Cloud account
add members to a Personal Cloud
join a Personal Cloud account
manage Personal Cloud members
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