March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
10h 10m
English
Chapter 6, “Data Storage in the Cloud,” discussed cloud-based data storage in detail. You learned that cloud-based data storage has the following advantages:
Scalable disk-storage space on demand
The ability to “pay as you go” for the storage needed
Behind-the-scenes backup and data replication
Support for common operating systems
Access from anywhere, anytime, and essentially any device
Ease of document sharing
Cloud-based storage has the following primary disadvantages:
Some users are not comfortable with their data residing in the cloud.
Cloud-based file access is slower than local-file access due to network overhead.
Data-storage virtualization essentially separates the physical-data storage ...
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