Chapter 11: File Services and Data Control
On any given day, roughly 500 million tweets are sent, 95 million photos are shared on Instagram, 294 billion emails are sent, and 3.5 billion Google searches are run. These numbers are incredible and as all that data comes and goes, it is easy in this day and age to think of this information as being stored in the cloud, a magic box in the sky. All that data is sitting somewhere, though – on hard drives, installed inside servers, sitting inside data centers. All this talk about cloud services has really morphed companies into talking about private clouds, and when you break it down, what they are really talking about is different ways to provide a centralized group of information to users that may be accessing it from various places. There are numerous technologies baked into Server 2019 that can assist with centralizing and securing your data, and this chapter will take us through some of the most common.
File storage needs exist...