Sharing heavy files have always been a problem and even though there have steady progress from as meager as 50 KB files to 10 MB now, thanks to Gmail, it still falls short in terms of both data coverage and time. It still takes a pretty long time to send free files online on the fastest email especially if the file size exceeds 5 MB. In this context, the arrival of cloud computing has been a blessing as it allows not just speedier sharing of much heavier files but also safe and easy storage of substantially large quantity of data in the virtual domain.

It is no longer necessary for you to worry about storing up to 1 GB of data even if you don’t own a computer of your own. You can use your Google account to access Google Doc where you can save a huge amount of data. This is your personal domain and is accessible only to you.

It is integrated to your email address and offers you to virtually own a small virtual office of your own. From spread sheets to Word.doc and image file, you can store all your important data in very own Google doc. As Google goes around integrating all its platforms with a single user account the security of cloud computing at the individual level gets further enhanced along with easy share file sharing.

The service that created a major impact in allowing users to send free files online is Dropbox which allows up to as much as 15 GB of free space to users. That is the kind of hard disc space that was available on most ordinary computer systems just 15 years ago. Sharing a file as big as 1 GB is as easy as sending an email if the person you want to share the file with, also has an account in Dropbox. Many other services have also arrived on the scene with their own versions of cloud based storage and data share services and prominent among these are MailBigFile and SkyDrive that offer huge storage spaces in the range of 10 – 15 GB.