IT will continue to share information and answer questions as this project progresses. IT will be communicating soon with users across campus who are using significantly more storage as compared to the average in our domain to understand their needs and work with them to clean up old and unneeded files and data. Information Technology (IT) is working closely with Google to ensure we have the tools and resources necessary to help us make this transition as smooth as possible.

This shift in strategy by Google means that UNI will need to reduce it’s overall storage consumption across Gmail, Google Drive (both My Drive and Shared Drives), and Google Photos in the Uni.edu Google domain prior to the July 2022 deadline.

In July of 2022, Google will shift from unlimited storage to a pooled storage model for Google Workspace for Education customers. Although Google has traditionally offered unlimited storage for free to its education customers, this model has become unsustainable with the rapid acceleration in growth of stored data.

In an announcement earlier this calendar year, Google notified their education customers that they are changing the rules regarding storage for their Google Workspace for Education product line to no longer include unlimited storage space.

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