Google provides students with unlimited free cloud storage data

Google Inc. is trying to provide all sorts of benefits and advantages to students and teachers. Perhaps the reason is the desire to take a leading position in the market of IT services for educational institutions and individual students.

Whatever it was, a couple of days ago, the corporation announced the granting of unlimited and free cloud storage for students. However, this service will not be available to all students, but only to those who use Google Apps for Education .

service users Google Apps for Education had previously received 30 GB of file space for your data, and some users have suggested to change this limit. The Corporation has met, and now users Google Apps for Education will get a place to store files of any size. However, the volume of a single file is limited to 5 TB, but it is difficult to imagine a file that may be useful in studies of similar size. The total number of such files can be unlimited.

In addition, students will be able to obtain and free access to Google Apps Vault, but only until the end of this year.

It is worth noting that the unlimited cloud storage already offered by the Corporation for premium users. This service is called Drive for Work , and is chargeable - with the user charge $ 10 per month.

Drive for Education - is almost complete analog Drive for Work , with the only difference that the service is free for educational its users.

Via googleforeducation

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