

Personal Google Drive accounts, as well as personal accounts in other platforms and services, are not appropriate for storing IU data. 85-90% of students, faculty, and staff will not be affected by this limit.Īlso, group accounts will no longer be able to store any data in Google at IU. The limit was put in place to ensure that these accounts stay under 5 GB and do not increase IU's total storage allotment in Google. For accounts below 4 GB of total storage, a limit of 5 GB was implemented on Friday, August 26. Google Shared Drives for institutional storageīy the end of the year, every active Google at IU My Drive account will need to be under 5 GB. Google Drive and Google Photos for individuals As a result, the university must limit the total storage footprint used by all IU services in Google systems to avoid drastically increased costs.Īpps, services, and features that contribute to our overall usage include: Also, see the full collection of KB documentation about these changes.įor more than a decade, Google offered the full suite of services at no cost to higher education universities however, Google has announced placement of caps on storage use, at 30% of the current total data stored in the IU Google instance.

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