SkyDrive in business - some information please?

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Hello,

We currently use a UNC network share as a mapped drive for our users. everything is dumped onto this UNC share, and although a little messy it does at least allow us to break things down into departments and share stuff between the right people using security

groups.

Moving forwards, skydrive in Office 365 and 2013 are available to users to store data in. I see the benefits of the whole "access anything anywhere" scenario and the 7GB limit per user (or whatever it is) is a nice quota. however, how are businesses

finding the use of skydrive for sharing data between others in the company?

can IT get into those accounts easily to extract data the business needs? what happens when a user leaves the business and we stop paying the subscription for that user, what happens to our data then? is it easy enough to increase the storage for each account

as those accounts approach their limit? is there a cap on how much a single user can buy (I'm sure a while ago the skydrive packages showed 100GB as a top option... but what if we needed more? I know its unlikely, but "what if")?

 

this is business data after all, secrets, plans, collaborations, projects... it's ours but someone else has hold of it, how much control do we have of our own asset here?

does anyone else have any other experience they can contribute the positives and negatives of using SkyDrive in a business, regardless of company size I'm interested to hear from anyone.

 

Thanks

Steve

 

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