Ability to save your files (text, audio, videos, photos…) on your computer, but on some remote servers (special computers for data storage) and to access them via the Internet from any location and any device in any time is called cloud storage. There are a number of services that provide this service such as Google Drive within Google Accounts, then OneDrive using Microsoft Accounts, Dropbox and others. The organization of data on these servers is hierarchical and structurally similar to the organization of data on your computer’s disk.

Some of these services provide the ability to create new files of different types or open and modify existing uploaded files. One of the biggest benefits of cloud services is that files and folders can be shared with multiple users. In this way, everyone can simultaneously contribute to the work on the document, which is collaborative work on the document. This concept of work is called “cloud computing”. You can get CCNA course in Abu Dhabi to enhance your skills.

Browse and find files in the cloud 

Users of Google accounts are available using the service Google Drive which is one of the best known and most frequently used cloud storage. Users have free 15GB of storage (including Gmail email service). For more space you need to buy some of the packages offered. This is a common principle on which cloud computing works – certain functionalities with limited memory space are offered free of charge, and for an additional fee, you get more space and an expanded range of services to use.

Collaborative creation and sharing of documents in the cloud 

Cloud offers the ability to upload files and folders previously saved to a local computer drive, or to create new files and folders directly in the cloud. Files and folders are managed in the cloud in the same way as on a computer disk. They can be copied, moved, renamed, deleted and shared.

In addition to these options, you can create a new word processing document (Google Docs), a new slide presentation a new questionnaire, and many other document types. Online applications for working with text and presentations have almost all the functionalities as well as applications installed on a computer and are compatible with each other, which means that if you start working on a document in an application on a computer and then upload that document to Google Drive you can continue to you edit in the online application and vice versa. If you create a document in the cloud, you can download it locally to your computer’s disk and continue working in the application installed on your computer. Many companies are requires cloud computing knowledge so you can get Cloud Computing Training in Abu Dhabi.

One of the biggest advantages of cloud computing is the ability to easily share and collaborate.

Files and folders on cloud can be divided in several ways:

  • To be public and for everyone to access
  • That they can only be accessed by people who have a link to them
  • They can only be accessed by persons with whom they are shared.

Selecting this option opens a window in which you need to choose how the file or folder will be shared as well as the right of access of the people with whom they are shared, whether they will only have the ability to access the file for reading or editing.