You no longer have to rely on hard drives, CDs, DVDs, and USB drives to store or

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You no longer have to rely on hard drives, CDs, DVDs, and USB drives to store or back up your data. Numerous online providers are able to store or back up your data over the Internet. With online storage, a company provides you with space on its servers, which you use to store your backup data, photos, movies, and large files—whatever you need. Using the Internet, find four different online storage options. Summarize your findings in a one-page report. Include answers to the following questions:

. What are the advantages and disadvantages of online storage?

Report on the four online storage options you researched--

a. Is there a free trial period? If so, how long is it?

b. What is the cost?

c. How much storage space is available and at what cost?

d. What security measures are in place to protect your data?

e. What additional features are offered?

f. What do reviews say about the company?

If you were to use online storage, which one would you select and why?

Explanation / Answer

Every one is creating a zillions of bits of data every day. These offline storages can't be accessed from other computers or devices. To access our storage from any other devices we require online storage. In this we can store our data in cloud or servers. We can backup or download the data from these online servers whenever we needed.

There are different types of vendors who provide online storage. Some of them are Google Drive, iCloud, drop box, copy, box, Amazon cloud and drive. These are most popular storage storage.

Advantages of online storage :

The advantages of online storage are:

1. Some times we may lost our offline storage. When it is gone there are no ways to get the data back. But for online storage we can retrieve our data any time.

2.some of the providers are providing free cloud storage for a limited storage. This is also an advantage for us if we use less amount of data.

3. The online storage is unlimited. You cab get access to any amount of data. But you have to buy the storage.

Disadvantages of Online storage :

1. The online storage can't be accessed in remote areas where we don't have proper internet connection.

2. The online storage is more dangerous if the online storage server is not secured safely.

I choose Google Drive, iCloud, drop box and One Drive for this report.

A) free trail period

Google Drive : Google Drive is the most important online storage server among android and google users. It provides a free 15 GB of data. It is for life time.

ICloud: ICloud is more popular among apple users. You get a free 5 GB of data for cloud storage. It is for life time.

One Drive : one drive gives a free storage of 5 GB of cloud storage. It is develop by microsoft

Drop box : it is also very popular cloud storage server. It gives Every user 2 GB of online storage for life time.

B) what is its cost.

All the four online storage server are free for limited data storage depending on there terms. For extra storage greater than given free limit how have pay them for every month for

Selected data options.

C) how much storage space available and at what cost.

a) Google Drive : for additional data you have to pay 2 dollars per month for 100GB and 10 dollars for 1TB of online storage Every month.

b) ICloud : ICloud gives number of options for extra storage. 0.99$ a month for 50 GB, 2.99$ a month for 200GB, 9.99$ a month for 1 TB, 19.99$ a month for 2 TB.

C) Drop box: it provides 1TB of data at a price of 10$ per month.

D) One Drive : It provides 50 GB of data at a price of 2 $ per month.

D) what security measures are in place to protect your data.

Security is the most important factor to be considered whenever we using cloud or online storage. We are uploading our personal information into the cloud. We want our privacy in this. This cloud storage servers provide 256 bit AES encryption and other secure techniques to protect our data.

E. What additional features are offered ?

The additional features are not much offered in this case. The main feature they offer is the free storage and availability to different platforms.

F) what do review say about the Company.

All the reviews are positive and they very much like the interface and auto backup option of this companies.

I personally use Google Drive as I'm a android user. I can access my files from different devices with the same credentials. Google is very big data company. So I think my data will be secured in Google hands

Thank you

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