Cloud Backup Network Drive for distributed teams.

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One of the features that has proven popular with our Cloud Backup software is the shared network drive. This allows you to share a virtual network drive with your colleagues, even when you are in different physical locations.

For example, your sales team might have a virtual network drive that holds all your templates, spreadsheets, brochures, etc.

A local cache is stored on the local machine, so access to the files is quick even when you are using a mobile phone to connect to the internet.

Another benefit that people are often not aware of immediately is that you can at anytime restore a prior version of a file. So if you accidentally overwrote a letter to a client; you can restore that letter not just from the last version, but from the version last Wednesday at 9:00am. If that is not the version you need you can restore the version from Tuesday, 3:07pm.

One client of our has been using the network drive to share the agenda for their distributed team meetings. They video or audio conference one another andall have access to the agenda. As it is a single file, shared between everyone, no matter where they are; all the latest ammednments to the agenda are there. There are no issues with emailed version not matching local people have. Everyone sure they are on the same agenda. Once the minutes are typed up, they are being saved into the same location, so again everyone has access.

We really like the network drive feature and would like more people to be able to take advantage of it. We can do it simple for you by setting up a shared drive for your team, department or even your entire organisation.

Below is a video about the network shared drive: