Tip of the Week: Two File Storage Solutions That Work for Personal Use, Too!

Tip of the Week: Two File Storage Solutions That Work for Personal Use, Too!

We generally cover tips that help business owners get the most out of their technology, but even the best business owner has a personal life, as well as technology that helps them stay connected with those they love.

How can you share files with people you are close to without leaving them wide open to attack? We’ll discuss some possibilities for personal file sharing.

As it stands, there are a lot of solutions out there that are leveraged by businesses that work just as well for the average user. The majority of them take advantage of cloud storage to make them more accessible for collaboration or sharing. We’ll go over some of the more popular storage systems at a consumer level.

Google Drive

Google Drive is quite a useful cloud service in its own right, but it’s even better for sharing files. All you have to do is select a user from your contacts or enter in their email address and you can share a document, image, video, or other file with them. You can even control what people can and can’t do with the files. For example, you can create a text document in Google Drive, share it with users, and determine who can and can’t edit the file. It’s great for collaboration or simply sharing a file.

Google Drive is free for the average user up to a certain storage point, but you can purchase additional space for a modest fee.

Microsoft OneDrive

Much like Google Drive, Microsoft’s flagship cloud storage system OneDrive provides access to both Microsoft Office applications and OneDrive cloud storage at a whim. The cool thing about this is that Microsoft OneDrive can also sync up with Microsoft Office to create a solution that keeps everything up-to-date. Like Drive, OneDrive can be a great collaboration tool for a business in need. Microsoft OneDrive has plenty of plans available.

Ultimately, it’s up to you which solution you would want to go with. How do you store and share files in your personal life? Let us know in the comments, and be sure to subscribe for more details on the latest technology tips and tricks.

Is Your Business Ready for Investors to Take a Closer Look?

Is Your Business Ready for Investors to Take a Closer Look?

Investors rarely care about the nature of your business, they care if you’re business ready.

They might not even care about the long-term profitability of your business. What they want to know is how quickly they’re going to get their money back and what type of return they should be expecting.

In their search to find the hard answers, there are a few things that they look for. If you have these elements, they know you’re serious and your business is likely to be reliable.

If you don’t have them, each missing element is a red flag.

Do you have data backup?

Every business runs on data, regardless of the niche or services, customer contact information, audit records, employee data, and license specs. The more data you have, and the more you can do with the data, the better your business will consistently run.

But investors want to know what you’ll do if part of that data ever gets corrupted or disappears. If part of the profit evaporates with it, then your business isn’t safe. So make sure your data is backed up on either a dedicated server or the cloud.

Many businesses streamline their backups by having intermittent recovery points, when all of the information in the system is downloaded as it is, as well as daily storage that captures smaller changes in in-progress work.

Multiple recovery points help mitigate common corruption errors that slowly degrade data over time because of computer glitches that can’t be caught.

Do you have business continuity and disaster recovery plans?

These are two different plans. One is about how you plan on having business operations continue in the middle of an emergency or major malfunction, while the other details how you’re going to get all the systems and data back to peak performance again.

If you don’t have these plans, investors will think you’re not prepared for problems. Make sure you have plans that are detailed enough that any employee can open the plan and know exactly what to do.

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