Cloud Storage For Business: Overview And Comparison

A Selection Of Russian Cloud Services For Small And Medium Businesses – With Pros, Cons, And Prices

Now many are in a situation where they urgently need to look for a corporate cloud for storing data – preferably, just in case, based in the Russian Federation. I made a short comparison of domestic services: features, tariffs, volume.

VK WorkDisk

Cloud storage for corporate documents with the possibility of co-authoring.

Pros:

• Clients for all popular platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iOS;
• Support for version history for all files (easy to return to the previous version);
• the ability to set disk space quotas for each user or folder;
• automatic notifications about changed files, new shares, disk quota exhaustion, etc.
• Deployment both in the cloud and on the customer’s servers;
• security (access via HTTPS, two-factor authentication)
• Support for the WebDAV protocol (cloud storage is mounted as a network drive and becomes available from any file manager);
• viewing documents and media files without downloading;
• Search with filters;
• the ability to work through the aggregator of cloud services “Disk-O”;
• administration (adding, deleting users, and managing their access);
• visual collaboration (changes in documents are visible to all participants immediately in the process of editing them);

Minuses:

The amount of storage depends on the number of users. For example, in standard tariff plans, you cannot buy 1 TB for 20 people, and custom options are available on request only for large companies (from 301 employees);

• If the payment is delayed for more than three days, the user is switched to a free tariff. At the same time, the entire volume over 3 GB is charged at 3 rubles per gigabyte per month;
• automatic deletion of all data if the payment is not received within 14 days.

Summary: an advanced and convenient domestic service that will not cause problems if you pay on time. Suitable for most corporate customers.

Yandex.Disk

As part of the virtual office Yandex 360 for business

Pros:

• transparent billing without limitation on the number of employees;
• there is a free version: 10 GB per employee and access to all services;
• the ability to allocate up to 3 TB to each user;
• unlimited mailbox (restrictions apply only to the number of letters in mailings);
• low price: from 24 kopecks to 1.29 rubles. per gigabyte per month for each user;
• security (Yandex ID authorization service certified according to the AICPA SOC 2 standard; all data is encrypted during transmission outside and inside the Yandex cloud).

Minuses:

The free version shows ads, and fast technical support is not available;

• to start working in Yandex 360, users must have accounts in Yandex;

If Yandex previously blocked the account for any violation of the rules, you cannot connect to Yandex 360;

• It is impossible to manage the services of different organizations from one Yandex account since the details of an organization are linked to the account of its owner.

Summary: one of the cheapest options for storing corporate data in the cloud. Completely free for those willing to keep within 10 GB and watch ads.

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