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Understanding storage management and pooled storage in Google Workspace

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Understanding storage management and pooled storage in Google Workspace

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Along with Google Drive and other critical services, it is also important to understand how storage is utilized by the users and how storage is managed by the administrators in Google Workspace. In Google Workspace, with everything we create, like Docs, emails with large attachments, recordings in Meet, it is storage being used. And in Google Workspace, managing your storage is not just about cleaning up the files. It is about understanding where the data lives, who owns it, how it is counted, and how your organization handles it. Let's start with a simple question. Who owns your storage? In Google Workspace, you don't technically own your storage, your organization does it. Every user is given a slice of the total pool of the storage that is available, but how big that slice is depends on the organization's workspace edition, and how your administrator configures those storage limits. So it is different from free personal Gmail, where you can get 15 GB of storage and that is your…

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