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Take Control of the Cloud, 2nd Edition
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Take Control of the Cloud, 2nd Edition

by Joe Kissell
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
144 pages
3h 23m
English
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Cloud Storage

One of the oldest, most common, and most useful types of cloud service is based on the simple notion of storing your files in the Cloud (instead of, or in addition to, storing them on a hard disk, SSD, or other local storage device).

In fact, many popular cloud storage services try to mimic the operation of a disk plugged into your computer—there’s an icon on your Desktop that you can use just like any other disk (open files, delete files, create subfolders, drag files in and out, etc.), except that everything inside it happens to be stored on a server in some anonymous data center far away. As I discuss later in Local vs. Cloud Data Storage, keeping data in the Cloud also enables mobile devices to be more useful, even with much ...

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