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In keeping with September’s theme of ‘the cloud’, this week’s top 10 apps roundup looks at cloud storage and backup for businesses.
With a whole host out there offering these services to start-ups, SMBs and large enterprises, it can be a little overwhelming. So here’s our pick of the best apps that work across multiple devices and operating systems:
– Protect business files that you never want leaked or lost
– Minimise employee mistakes with advanced access permissions
– Collaborate with your team members on sensitive reports
– Securely share contracts, financial reports or customer data with co-workers, clients and vendors
– End-to-end encryption – no Tresorit admin, hacker or government can access your data
– 2-step verification and device lockout on mobile devices
– Remote mobile wipe
– Access and roll back to any document’s previous versions
– Decide if your shared documents can be copied, emailed, printed, shared or screenshotted
– Available on PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry
– Pricing: Business (2-4 users) – £16/user/month, Business (5+ users) – £12.80/user/month, Enterprise (50+ users) – Contact for pricing
– Access files on the go
– Restore historical versions of documents
– Send files to team members
– Manage file storage and archive
– Enforce privacy policies
– Centralised management
– End-point backup
– Sync across any operating system
– Available on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS
– Pricing: Minimum 10 users – from $50/month, Enterprise – Contact for pricing
– Store, share and access business files
– Access CudaDrive from any web browser
– Virtual drive keeps all your files and folders available without the need to sync all data to every device
– Manage users, groups and all company content
– Optional on-premise physical or virtual appliance to ‘supercharge’ performance and accessibility of CudaDrive
– Available on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android and Windows Phone
– Pricing: Ranges from 100GB of storage for $39.99/month to 4TB for $569.99/month (unlimited users with every plan)
– Box allows every employee to securely work across teams, with customers, and with partners
– Mobile access
– Online workspace
– Sync across all devices
– Comprehensive reporting, logging and audit trails
– Layered encryption
– Threat protection and prevention
– Available on any browser, iOS, Android, Windows and BlackBerry
– Pricing: Starter (3-10 users) – £3.50/user/month, Business (3+ users) – £11/user/month, Enterprise – contact for pricing
– Unlimited storage and file recovery
– Apps available for PC, Mac phone and tablet
– Invite teammates to any folder in your Dropbox
– Send links to specific files, photos and folders
– Undo mistakes and undelete files
– Available on iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone
– Pricing: £11/user/month
– Store your files and share them with co-workers
– Search for the file you need with simple search or use Office Delve to discover new relevant content
– Create, edit and review documents in real time
– Set up an integrated approval process for documents that are ready to review
– Data loss prevention
– Available on PC, Android, iOS and Windows Phone
– Pricing: 1TB per person – $5/month
– Unlimited storage for files, folders and backups
– Powerful and easy-to-use tools to manage users
– Secure devices with mobile management
– Set sharing permissions
– Advanced auditing and reporting
– Access files from any device and share with colleagues and customers, even if they don’t have Google Drive themselves
– Real time collaboration
– Available on Mac, PC, Android and iOS
– Pricing: Unlimited storage for $10 per user per month – accounts with fewer than 5 users get 1TB of storage/user
– Connect photos, documents, apps, notes and contacts from all iOS and Mac devices
– Help find lost devices
– Store all your presentations, spreadsheets, PDFs and other documents with iCloud Drive
– Automatically backs up daily
– Available on Mac and iOS
– Pricing: From Free (5GB) to £14.99/month (1TB)
– Sync files for continuous backup
– Collaborate on team projects
– Distribute view-only files
– Invite specific people to access files
– Remote wipe your data
– Available on PC, Mac, iOS and Android
– Pricing: Business – from $55/month, Custom Business (10+ users) – Contact for pricing
– Online backup for all office computers
– Monitor backups centrally on the web
– Easily restore files from the cloud or using LiveDrive’s free restore software
– Online backup for NAS
– Setup team folders for group work and collaboration
– Share files with people outside the business
– Set up individual permissions
– Available on Windows, Android and iOS
– Pricing: Express (3 users) – from £22/month, Standard (10+ users) – from £75/month
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– Top 10 apps for organising and planning
– Top 10 recruitment apps for businesses of all sizes
– Top 10 ways to build your own business app
