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Gig Power

OIT serves up big boost in personal digital storage, file management

Faculty and staff who have struggled to find digital data storage space for their work will benefit from Duke WebFiles

Duke students, faculty and staff now have up to 5 gigabytes of personal digital storage at their disposal, an increase from 70 megabytes for students and faculty and 10 megabytes for staff, the Duke Office of Information Technology announced Monday.

OIT calls the new service Duke WebFiles, an application that not only increases a Duke network user's storage but also makes it easy to store important digital data. The service requires no special software on a user's PC. All you need is a network connection and a Web browser.

WebFiles enables anyone with a Duke account to store and retrieve documents and images, including video streamed directly from servers. WebFiles also provides a shared space for group collaboration that includes ready-made group space for courses and allows sharing media with the broader community.

WebFiles includes a button to create a streaming video publishing directory. Files placed in this directory are available as video streams so that users can easily share video content and send URLs to the content to their friends. WebFiles also allows users to load content and pages to create personal web sites.

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