The term “cloud services” normally refers to services similar to what we are used to from the use of a local computer, both in terms of editing and storing documents, but where storage and processing of data, in fact, takes place at an external provider, anywhere on the Internet, but where is it mostly uninteresting where this actually takes place. Hence the “cloud”.
A comparison of different cloud services and services for collaboration on documents, and other conventional methods for storing documents.
Service | Storage takes place … | Space | Cost | Target | Editing option in the browser | Backup | Version Control | May be used for personal data | May be used for information worth protection |
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File server at the office or your department | LU | 50 GB by default 1) | Free | Employees at the Office / Department | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SharePoint (LU) | LU | Free | Employees at LU, students at LU | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Office 365 / OneDrive (LU) | At the supplier somewhere in the “cloud” | 1000 GB | Free | Employees at LU, students at LU | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
LU Box | At the supplier somewhere in the “cloud” | 20 GB by default | Free | Employees at LU, employees at other Swedish universities in SUNET | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Google Docs / Google Drive (LU) | At the supplier somewhere in the “cloud” | Free | Students at LU | No | No |
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Dropbox | At the supplier somewhere in the “cloud” | Free | No | No |
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ICloud | At the supplier somewhere in the “cloud” | Free | No | No |