Velma forced herself not to sigh, because okay, this wasn't entirely unusual. Clearly while they had common interests he probably wasn't as big a geek as she was, no big deal, she could move on. "Does your work have an iCloud?" It was the easiest way to explain it, please let his world have an iCloud.
"It's basically like that. The data stream will always be active and local, when you're within the transmission reach, your device will automatically connect to the back-up server, you can access the database and make alterations, additions and new information. The database will back itself up every six hours and delete the previous information, this will happen on the six and twelve's, so please don't have unsaved work on the drive."
She had to make it all as basic as she could, which was probably just as well really, considering she'd made a NASA space module for her fifth grade science and astronomy project that could actually send messages to a low orbiting satellite.