When we are talking about files, what we usually mean are documents. Because this is still new, we have not had a chance to fully test, and it is still early in their partnership. It is meant to work with SharePoint which is the group file storage and collaboration solution for departments and/or your entire organization.ĭropbox and Microsoft have announced integration between their services. OneDrive is part of the Office 365 suite and allows individual storage. Dropbox makes files available for download or upload from their website or server. Thus far, file sharing has been one of hardest tasks to make user-friendly and secure when in the cloud.ĭropbox and Microsoft’s OneDrive both synchronize files from a local computer to a server in the cloud. You’ve probably heard about Office 365 being used for email (or may even be using it at your organization), but Office 365 comes bundled with a lot of other helpful features.Īs more and more data moves out to the cloud, and more and more staff are working from a wide variety of remote locations, one of the last remaining ties to a physical computer may be specific files. This is especially true for nonprofit organizations, where a basic Office 365 subscription is free for qualifying nonprofits. More and more organizations are finding that “the cloud” is finally delivering on the promise of offering more – features, stability, availability – for less – costs, maintenance.
I also gave a webinar recently on the pros and cons of each, and you can find the slides and recording here. This post on individual use considerations of OneDrive and Dropbox as file systems is followed by a post on using them in organizations. As Seinfeld might say, so what is the deal with cloud file systems? The cloud is becoming ever more popular and is no longer a leading edge solution, but rather a standard part of most nonprofit IT systems.
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