Introduction

This topic will expand your understanding and knowledge on storage of digital resources. We will look at ways in which you can store your digital resources into digital devices and cloud storage technologies. By the end of this unit, we hope that students will have expanded their knowledge on different types of digital storage devices like flash disk, CD’s etc and cloud based technologies like Dropbox and Google drive in their working or learning environment.

Objectives

At the end of this topic you should be able to;

  • Understanding the concept of digital storage
  • Identify different types of digital storage media
  • Define the concept of cloud storage
  • Identify different types of cloud storage
  • Apply different types of cloud technology in daily life
  • Identify advantages and disadvantages of cloud storage
  • Identify the challenges of cloud storage on data security and privacy