How to Handle big files in SharePoint 2010 and 2013

SharePoint 2010 and 2013 is having software boundary that we can't upload file bigger than 2 GB, so what if we have bigger files?

To handle large files that are bigger than 2 GB there are few options you have:
  1. Use software to split files and then upload them and when you download them you will use the software to merge them again, there are available software to do the following
  2. Use File Share servers and from SharePoint create view to point to those file share servers.
  3. Upload files to cloud and inside SharePoint just add links to refer to those sites.
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