Total cloud solution for small office?

JohnCleary

I've been asked to help a friend who runs a small office.

They need a cloud storage service. As the staff are always on the go, all files are to be stored on the cloud, which can then be easily accessed by any of the staff on the go.

I did consider a local server with VPN, but it's a bit OTT as it's just a few hundred document files that will be needed to be accessed. Also, the office is running on ADSL so the uploads (downloads to the staff on the road) would be miserable.

Is there a cloud solution out there that offers drag-and-drop storage, where a file structure can be created, just like a HDD on a PC?

They've been using Dropbox until now but would prefer a more refined system I think, one which gives them the feeling of a PC once they log in via web/mobile interface.

Thanks folks

JohnCleary

I was mucking about with justcloud.com and it looks ideal as it has a 'Sync Folder', but, it won't allow me to upload folders (they must be zipped), which is a balls

Edit: I reckon LiveDrive will do the job nicely, it has a Sync folder that sits in Explorer

Mr. G

Office 365/OneDrive and using Office Online perhaps?

Mr. Fancypants

Sharefile from Citrix will do this for you. You can get a free trial.

clansman

http://www.bittorrent.com/sync ???

We use a combination of Office 365 & NEC cloud storage in our office. It works fairly well. The NEC cloud storage gives us personal & team storage. Users & storage space can be increased/decreased from the admin panel.

JohnCleary

In the end we went with LiveDrive. It creates a virtual drive in Explorer (on any PC that the software is installed) and they work from there.

It costs 8euro / month which I think is unlimited data

bren2002

Office 365 with SharePoint & One Drive is what you want.

Yeah it's pretty much unlimited data, good price for that

martindoran

Mr. G wrote: »

Office 365/OneDrive and using Office Online perhaps?

livedrive is the one id recomend , 4 euro per month per user unlimited storage , apps for all devices