Cloud-based storage offers its own share of added advantages and disadvantages. Does it fare well as compared to local storage? Or is local storage a better choice? In this article, we attempt to answer this
Features | by Sufyan bin Uzayr
BANGALORE, INDIA: Cloud storage provides organizations an easy and reliable medium of collaboration, storage and backup. Not only does it foster easy retrieval of files, it saves a lot in terms of cost and expenditure.
Cloud based storage refers to the storage of data over the 'cloud' - hosted elsewhere on third party hardware. As users, we simply pay for the disk space on the cloud. The maintenance of the hardware is done by the cloud provider. Unlike local storage, we do not physically manage the hardware or storage medium. Cloud-based storage is applicable in a wide variety of fields - with individual users storing their documents and pictures online to businesses running collaborative programs over the cloud.
Cloud-based storage: The good, the bad
For personal usage, even Google Docs and Dropbox can suffice as viable cloud-based options. However, for organizations, such free options do not essentially exist so easily.
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