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An alternative solution to CD content distribution

Jun 19, 2017 11:32AM PDT

It is my first time asking a question in this forum site. But, I am looking to fix a problem regarding on a content distribution. So, almost like every month we need to update on our customers technical guide manual, and we update the information using traditional method by burning CDs. The material cost and freight cost is taking big portion of our expenses. Definitely, we been looking towards using cloud content delivery solution, and we figured that transferring files can be unstable due to customers’ slow internet speed plus the service costs was unreasonably expensive. So, do any of you have any recommendation which solution to use?

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That's news to me.
Jun 19, 2017 11:40AM PDT

I use Dropbox to get apps to my clients and not one has told me it's slow or costly.

Are you in a part of the world that doesn't have much Internet?

As to costly, even a run of the mill company web site would be cheaper than what we spent on mailings last year.

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what size CD's
Jun 19, 2017 12:00PM PDT

There are smaller size CD's which can save some money, if it's just a manual or catalogue being distributed. Of course a PDF download is a lot cheaper, if they can download it.

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We Used PDF Files Here...
Jun 19, 2017 5:44PM PDT

For simple updates to various manuals, we created PDF files and emailed them to the recipients. For larger files, we used a website where they could download them. But now.... Heck, even home users can use their OneDrive site links for download options.

Hope this helps.

Grif

Post was last edited on June 20, 2017 4:35 PM PDT

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My Recommendation is...
Jun 27, 2017 11:18AM PDT

I came across to your question and thought that I can answer. Have you thought of using remotely manageable USBs instead of using CDs or cloud delivering solution? Because remotely manageable USBs can be connected well even during a slow internet connection. Plus, you won’t have to deliver CDs every time or to purchase them in bundle. So, the big advantage of using USB is that there will be only one delivering cost, which it would dramatically lower down your company’s expense .
As far as I know there are 2 solutions for Remotely Manageable USBs: Ironkey and Secudrive . They have remotely manageable USBs, but then Secudrive has an advantage of having copy-protection which it can prevent users from copying, printing, screen capturing, and network transferring the data inside USBs.