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Check out the cloud storage offerings that provide the best returns on your investment by virtue of their ease of use, stability, and feature sets:
Dropbox
Dropbox has been a dominant player in the file-sharing market. However, recent uninformed price hikes, forced upgrades, privacy issues and non-consensual application installations have forced long-term Dropbox clients to start looking for effective alternatives. We provide exactly the same set of features with FileCloud Online. FileCloud Online is a powerful, award-winning, enterprise file-sharing, sync and endpoint product hosted on AWS infrastructure. We have been recognized by the Gartner Customers’ Choice Award in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 and we were named in the 2018 Gartner MQ for Content Collaboration Platform.
With a massive variety of choices for data-center regions — US East, US West, EU, Australia and Hong Kong, our best file sharing platform for business aims to meet all your sharing needs, from data residency requirements to low latency access. In addition to file-sharing and syncing, FileCloud Online also offers endpoint PC, mobile and file-server backups to your cloud. Our platform allows for full customization: our clients can use their own logos, domain names to create the professional branding and user-experience of their company vision. Our files are protected securely through customer encryption keys, and all of our clients receive legendary support from professional engineers who will work with you to ensure your deployment of best enterprise cloud storage is a huge success.
Box
Box and FileCloud Online offer secure content management platform for businesses and enterprises. Both platforms are built for businesses and offer powerful features to securely manage your enterprise content. Important security features like Box Governance, Keysafe, DLP and 3rd party integrations are only available on Enterprise suites which costs more than their business pricing. Compared to Box pricing, FileCloud Online offers transparent pricing and superior ROI. In addition to features like powerful governance and Smart DLP functionalities, FileCloud Online also offers optional hybrid cloud capabilities which included features like file server backup/sync to the cloud and vice versa – making it the best cloud file server.
Egnyte
Egnyte and FileCloud Online offer a very similar set of features in enterprise file sharing solution for businesses. Unlike competitors, both Egnyte and FileCloud Online offer unique hybrid cloud capabilities to synchronize local file severs to the cloud and vice versa. Egnyte StorageSync uses a locally installed virtual appliance to provide the hybrid cloud capability while FileCloud doesn’t require a separate virtual appliance. One can use their existing windows file servers to act as a local file storage that is synchronized to the cloud. When compared to FileCloud Online, Egnyte is very expensive. Most of the important features required by system administrators like Role-based Administration, Multiple Entity Management, Native AD/LDAP Integration, SAML SSO Integration and Archiving Service are available only with Egnyte Enterprise plan (Higher priced plan than Egnyte Business plan).
Citrix ShareFile
Compared to Sharefile, FileCloud Online offers powerful data security features in-addition to the basic file sharing features. FileCloud’s governance module offers advanced data leak prevention, document retention, archival and legal hold functionalities in-addition to standard auditing. FileCloud data governance features are ideal for high security, external file sharing use cases like virtual data rooms, partner and client portals. External file sharing use cases are prone for accidental sharing and data leaks. FileCloud’s Smart DLP capabilities can prevent accidental sharing of PII data. FileCloud Online offers powerful admin portal that offers detailed audit trial (what, when, who,where and how) and device management capabilities (remote wipe/block) to protect your enterprise content. System administrators can monitor all the file shares by users and can also keep track of system activity to monitor unusual access patterns for maximum security. They can also revoke any user shares from the admin portal.
When evaluating cloud storage, sync, and sharing models, you should select a solution that addresses your unique business needs. Here are the top factors to consider FileCloud when selecting a cloud storage solution.
- Remote/Mobile Access – secure access to remote files from variety of devices including mobile devices
- File Synchronization – synchronize across devices and operating systems, including mobile devices
- File Sharing – option to share files as link with users inside or outside an organization. Granular file sharing options such as private, public, password protected sharing.
- Team Collaboration – common team folders for teams to sync and share files. Ability to send messages, comment on files and have threads of conversation
- Effective User Interface – a good solution would have a right balance between ‘ease of use’ and richness of features. Intuitive features such as “drag and drop” files for upload.
- Virtual Drive aka “streaming” or “on-demand sync” – mount remote files as local files. Files are downloaded only when they are accessed and edited. Consumers get access to all their remote files without using much local memory.
- Content Creation, Collaboration – offer integration with Microsoft Office 365, Collabora or Google Docs to create, edit and co-author files.
- Administrator Tools – user management, user policy management, centralized device dashboard, real-time performance reporting and security tools.
- Integration – connect with existing infrastructure, enterprise file servers and storage.
- Customization – custom branding across user interfaces (logos, url customization), communications (emails) and policies.
- Data Governance and Compliance – granular file access control, user policy management, centralized devices dashboard, and data residency. Compliance with regulations such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), HIPAA
- Search – indexes content across repositories for efficient search, and offers advance search using patterns and search filters.
- Security and Data Protection – remote data wiping, strong encryption, data loss prevention (DLP), two factor authentication (2FA) and alerts on unusual activities.
- Content Analytics – provide insights on system usage, user collaborations, external interactions and risk/ vulnerabilities.
- Basic Content Management – versioning, metadata classification, user policy management, light workflows.
- APIs – a wide range of APIs to extend existing features and integrate with other applications.
- Data Portability – ability to move files to another system. Limited vendor lock-in.
- Identity Management – integrates with standard enterprise identity Active Directory (AD), and Single Sign On etc.
- Deployment models – deploy solutions across public, hybrid or private clouds, and on-premises.
- Total Cost of Ownership – solution with ROI, not just for the current business, but for the business in the near future, without ballooning costs or price hikes
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