Cloud Storage Advantages And Disadvantages

Introduction

Many of us these days are afraid of saving too much data in our computers because they can slow down if there’s not enough internal memory, they can crash and information can be lost, or simply you’re just tired of carrying around that local storage device; like a USB flash drive. Today, third parties give us the option of not having to worry about those types of problems; they provide us with cloud storage. Instead of saving your data in a flash drive or in your computer, you save it to a remote database provided by this third party. The Internet provides the connection between your computer and this database. Cloud storage has some advantages over the traditional way we store our data. With cloud storage you are able to retrieve your data at any location with Internet access. You don’t have to worry about forgetting that physical storage devise during your presentation day; you will always be able to access it. Another advantage is that you are able to turn a personal project into a team project by allowing other to access your data. This can be done with

They could be for a very specific task like storing email messages or digital pictures, and others are provided to store all kinds of digital data. Cloud storage systems vary from small operations to ones so large that the physical equipment to operate can fill up a big warehouse. These locations where cloud storage are operated from are called data centers.

To operate basic cloud storage, everything that is needed is a data server with Internet access. Clients forward the files they want to store in a cloud through the Internet to a data server where the information is recorded. Whenever clients want to access those files, they can do so using a web based interface to access the data center. At this point the server is in charge of sending the files to clients or it permits clients to handle or work on those files on the server