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Old Apr 2, 2014 | 11:42 pm
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Dropbox is in my experience the easiest to use; it is easy to upload and share documents across mobile devices. That being said it is more consumer focused than business oriented, although they are making efforts to beef up their business offering. Box.com is more enterprise oriented - you can easily set up data rooms among internal and external teams of users; however I find Box's usability across different devices (laptops, iphone/pad, etc.) to be more difficult and cumbersome. My company is currently beta testing enterprise box. Both dropbox and box are easily scalable based on number of users. My understanding from my IT department is that Skydrive/OneDrive does not have the level of encryption and security that box and dropbox (and other cloud services) have.
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Old Apr 3, 2014 | 2:24 pm
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Originally Posted by Dodge DeBoulet
Installing the Google Drive Sync app on your PC/laptop makes the use of Drive quite painless. Drag a document to the drive folder and a few seconds later it's shared with your team. You can control who has access to the folders and files by right clicking and selecting Google Drive from the context menu. The files are still stored locally as well, so you can get at them even while offline; your changes will be synced the next time you connect.

The app occasionally has a hiccup where it causes high CPU utilization (mostly when there's been a network interruption of some sort). Quitting and restarting the app fixes it, though.
Of course, but it doesn't do much in the way of versioning or collaboration on non-google apps style documents.
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Old Apr 3, 2014 | 8:52 pm
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Of course, but it doesn't do much in the way of versioning or collaboration on non-google apps style documents.
What services offer those features?
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Old Apr 3, 2014 | 10:37 pm
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Originally Posted by rriopel432
Goggle Docs or Office 365 would be my recommendation.
Neither can guarantee EU data compliance.

If OP really only wants storage then AWS or similar might serve just as well as anything. (Cue jokes about EU data compliance)

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Old Apr 4, 2014 | 8:21 am
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Originally Posted by SeriouslyLost
Neither can guarantee EU data compliance.

If OP really only wants storage then AWS or similar might serve just as well as anything. (Cue jokes about EU data compliance)
I remember seeing an article about a cloud service called Microsoft Azure, is it the same as office365?
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Old Apr 4, 2014 | 8:42 am
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Originally Posted by valdor
I remember seeing an article about a cloud service called Microsoft Azure, is it the same as office365?
No. Azure is an infrastructure-as-a-service offering, for companies to deploy software onto; it doesn't offer the kind of specific business functionality that Office 365 (or Google Apps for Business) does.
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Old Apr 4, 2014 | 10:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Dodge DeBoulet
What services offer those features?
Box offers versioning control and web based commenting. Plus a user can easily view what changes have been made by other users to a document that was worked on locally and then synced to box via the desktop client (similar style to Dropbox / Google Drive). It's pretty cool.
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