[OSX-Users] OneDrive vs DropBox

[Christopher Gutteridge]

We're literally having some meetings as a result of the previous discussion.

cc iSolutions Kevin Shaw who's our lead on this work.

It's a work in progress, but the current thinking is to help staff 
categorise information security requirements from "freely allow 3rd 
party reuse (open data)" at one end and "a leak would result in 
significant loss of life or long term damage to the economy" at the 
other extreme. Then provide a guide to popular tools like dropbox and 
their suitability.

What I'm keen to do is provide a bit of a conduit between iSolutions and 
real users of these systems. We can't address the "shadow IT" question 
properly without knowing what people are doing, and more importantly 
*why* they are doing it, which is why questions like this are very 
important.

On 06/10/2016 09:43, Hugh Davis wrote:
> Following on from my post about using OneDrive, I wondered if perhaps I should stop paying Dropbox and start using Onedrive for my entire backup/sync, given that University accounts now get 1TB of OneDrive data - which is the same as I get from Dropbox for an annual payment of around £50.
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> Reasons Against:
> 1.  I’m not sure I want all my data to be in University hands?
> 2. I’m not sure that Onedrive allows sharing outside the University  ??
> 3. I’m pretty sure OneDrive does not have the ability to get a URL for a directory or File?
> 4. I don’t know how well OneDrive does at keeping versions of files and deleted files - I think Dropbox now gives you one month to go back to old files?
> 5. I’m not far off retirement and then I’ll have to go back to Dropbox anyway!
> 6. Given MS’s record in this space I’m not sure I trust them to keep OneDrive working on a Mac. Dropbox has been perfect.
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> Any thoughts, answers to my questions, or further reasons against?
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> Hugh Davis
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