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Cloud storage is a utility-type service that allows for many customizations from storage capacity and privacy. Pricing has a positive relationship with each customization, but each one fits to a personal or more business-like lifestyle. A basic cloud storage system consists of a master control server and several smaller storage servers that connect to it. All the data in that system is in a shared pool, so there are options for public and private clouds. Public cloud storage systems allow for a person to upload whatever they want and the whole infrastructure managed by the service provider. The access point is through the internet straight to the provider’s server, but private clouds are on a server protected behind a company’s own firewall (Linsenbach, 2008.) Then private cloud storage systems allow for data to be uploaded, but can be managed by the service provider’s own IT support. This eliminates the need for in-house physical storage and even in-house IT support to manage the whole system.