Many people utilize cloud storage for backup purposes, or use a cloud-based file sharing service to share files with friends/family. Some of these services have advanced features, such as the ability to selectively sync of folders on mobile devices as well as integrations with productivity tools and smart notifications. They also offer comments on the document level as well as activity streams and documents-level comments. These features allow anyone to know what has changed or updated an individual folder or file over time. Others concentrate on security by using encryption and allowing only certain IP addresses to access the system, or providing an encrypted virtual private network (VPN).

The More about the author key to success in modern data management is in real-time business insights, which requires the use of a system that is able to deliver high performance on a large scale. This is difficult to achieve with solutions that are developed at home or by consulting that rely on multiple regions, services, and clouds, and whose architecture is usually designed for fault tolerance instead of high uptime.

Data Sharing

A powerful data-sharing tool offers an unidirectional, single method to exchange, monetize, and consume live market datasets throughout the entire business ecosystem. It offers speed, power, governance, and security to facilitate a range of business applications that are based on data, from historical sales forecasts and models of customer propensity to real-time market data feeds for predicting trends and identifying opportunities. This is a tough problem to solve, but a best-of-breed vendor can provide a fast and scalable platform that provides low-latency data while reducing costs and reducing the risk of data.