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Productivity SaaS for education is changing: a wake-up call for schools
For schools that have relied on productivity SaaS solutions for years, it’s a pivotal moment to reassess long-term needs and explore alternatives that offer greater stability, flexibility, and control. As cloud adoption in education expands, productivity SaaS plans continue to evolve. With Google Workspace for Education ending free unlimited storage in 2022 and Microsoft’s recent updates to 365 Education offerings, institutions with thousands of faculty and students are facing significant cost and resource impacts. How do these plans impact education institutions? By January 2025, Microsoft will make significant changes to its Microsoft 365 Education plans, including retiring the Office 365
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Unlimited cloud storage plans are becoming extinct- How can Synology Drive help enterprises in cost control and data ownership?
Cloud storage has become the go-to choice for businesses, with over 60% of enterprise files now residing in the cloud, and a staggering 94% of businesses worldwide embracing cloud storage solutions (GoodFirms, 2023). However, with nearly half of cloud-stored data classified as sensitive information, including employee and customer data, financial records, and intellectual property, it is projected that cloud storage spending will increase by 13% to reach $135.1 billion by 2026 (IDC, 2023). This rapid growth of data presents two significant challenges for enterprises: rising storage costs and data privacy concerns. Public Cloud Challenges Rising costs for businesses
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Big advances coming to data management in 2023
Building an efficient data management infrastructure is crucial for businesses of any size. As organizations continue to increase the amount of data they acquire, consume, and share across departments and with the outside world, demand for flexible and reliable storage solutions is stronger than ever. The coming year will see a series of updates to our DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system and Synology C2 cloud infrastructure that will deliver better scalability, dependability, and mobility to new and existing deployments. These will bring teams the agility to manage data at scale while maintaining the security and control they need to streamline
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Synology Drive leads a new era of file collaboration
Surpassing Cloud Station in every way imaginable Reflecting our core belief that data should be accessible anywhere, Cloud Station offers a private cloud solution allowing you to instantly sync files across multiple platforms while retaining historical versions of important files for recovery purposes. Having served over 1.6 million offices and families since its debut 6 years ago, Cloud Station developed many advanced features to adapt to users’ various needs, allowing you to seamlessly access and sync files across NAS servers, PCs, and mobile devices. To bring a more streamlined user experience and business-ready file server solution, Cloud Station has evolved
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How to streamline file sharing for multi-site businesses
To increase productivity and reduce costs. The enterprise workforce has long been spread across multiple office sites. But today they’re also working from living rooms, airports, coffee shops and other remote locations. In fact, research shows that nearly two-thirds of organizations today have remote workers. This new reality presents several IT and data management challenges. With remote teams, file sharing can be cumbersome and slow down productivity due to poor bandwidth. Moreover, if your organization lacks a centralized data management system, storage usage will increase due to unnecessary redundancies. You’ll also risk losing critical data without centralized backup and recovery. With