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CHAPTER 6Data Storage in the Cloud
Advantages of cloud solutions include scalability, robustness, pay-for-use pricing models, and accessibility from any device at any time. One of the early great successes of the cloud was cloud-based storage, to which users posted photos and videos from their phones, which they could later access from those phones as well their personal computers. Today, most users have gotten beyond the initial fears of putting data in the cloud and use cloud-based storage for a wide range of files and documents. This chapter examines cloud-based storage. As you will learn, most ...
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