
Some features include Shared file storage spaces for collaboration, daily data backups, security permissions for your data restricted to your department or university affiliates you authorize, compatibility with macOS, Windows and Linux. UCB Files is OIT's file server providing on-campus, backed-up storage for faculty, staff, and student groups. In the coming weeks and months, OIT will directly email users of Google Photos, Google Drive, and Shared Drives to provide guidance on how to download and relocate the files you wish to keep and how to best utilize OIT's recommended storage options. Most of the Google storage space is currently consumed by non-Google file types (e.g., Microsoft documents, PDFs, videos, photos, etc.). To ensure we can keep within the new quota, we will be making some significant changes to our service, including eliminating Google Photos and setting individual quotas for Google Drive. In order to ensure that the free storage allocated to CU Boulder is being used for mission-critical functions, the campus’s new quota will be pooled and shared in a manner that prioritizes Google for collaboration with the primary focus being on teaching and learning. The new storage model will provide CU Boulder with much less free storage than the campus consumes today.

Google previously announced an end to unlimited storage for the academic community, and CU Boulder is working to reduce its pooled storage by December 31, 2022.
