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Question

Non-profit needs file sharing software

Jul 3, 2016 6:14PM PDT

I'm volunteering for a non-profit organization based in Chicago that collects community support for global initiatives through the collection of digital signatures and related supporter created profiles & data. We often have to transfer large files, more than several gigabytes, to organizations located throughout the world. The problem is some of these organization are in countries with a weaker IT infrastructure and the large file transfers can take a very very long time or the transfer completely fails due to the unstable network in some countries. Mailing hard drives or using most free transfer products isn't possible because we need to ensure that we are securing our supporters data and privacy. Does anyone know of such a software product that could solve this issue. As we are a non-profit, we focus on spending on our ground game and don't have extensive funds to commit towards software. Any suggestion or advice would be greatly appreciated. Cheers~

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For this you would need tech staff
Jul 5, 2016 6:55PM PDT

And then have them implement "your own cloud." Such systems sync like Dropbox.

As to your comment about data security, well, I could write for hours about this but you can encrypt the file and talk to them about the password later. Again, I will stop here because this is a topic well done but there are solutions, just need a techy staff member to make it happen.

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Jul 7, 2016 11:51PM PDT

Ok thanks for the additional info. How experienced would this tech staff member need to be to implement "our own cloud?" I was hoping this wouldn't require specialized staff.

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Pretty advanced staff.
Jul 8, 2016 9:25AM PDT

This would be in the class of IT that the person could be a CIO or CTO. They would be a "big picture" person with no loyalties to an OS or machine. They know it's a big world and understand that users won't work well with arcane instructions.

Definitely not the average computer geek that just got out of HS.

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Different Options
Jul 12, 2016 8:08PM PDT

Looks as if you're not looking to spend a lot here. I've seen several different solutions that would likely work. You'll have to take a look at the tech to see how difficult it would be for your existing staff to implement:

SYNOLOGY (a chrome plugin for transfer)
Torrent (make your private torrent)
SEEDBOX (you get free storage and can run it as your own cloud)
INNORIX (www.innorix.com/en/EX may offer free large file transfer)
ASPERA (www.ASPERA.C0M somewhat expensive file transfer)