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Advice for new business looking to network remotely

Feb 24, 2010 2:43PM PST

I am part of a new advisory/consulting business with a handful of us working in different parts of the world. We are not high IT users - word, excel, powerpoint's etc. It would be helpful if we were able to access information files, folders in the one place. Also to do back up's.

We have our own notebook and desktop arrangement and internet access

We are not IT proficient and keen to spend very little. We had shied away from looking into servers as perceived this would be overkill and not cheap.

With technology moving as fast as it does, wanted to tap the knowledge here to see if there were any smart and low cost solutions you could recommend. (eg would a hard drive with remote access be feasible.) Thanks for you help on this- it is appreciated.

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Use shared web storage.
Feb 24, 2010 4:12PM PST

It's cheap and it's accessible everywhere.
For example: Google Docs or Windows Live Spaces (with Skydrive).

Kees

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Feb 25, 2010 3:24AM PST