Online storage

So, I have a guy (accountant) who wants to go paperless. Anyone know of any good online storage places he could use? Was hoping for NZ based, but will consider offshore. Encryption and all that jazz would be nice but not totally necessary (it's hardly KPMG here)....

Anyone have any ideas? I know a guy developing something similar, but it's not really ready to go over here yet.

Cheers cheers

Oh, obviously a good file management/searchable database is needed as well.

any file store would work.

use truecrypt for encryption if required (you can mount the keys on the computer so you dont have to enter passwords all the time).

How much space is he after?

Also - paperless is a nice concept but lesspaper is a better target.

Are we talking backups here?

My company does this. Aussie based but the profits go back to NZ as we're owned by an NZ company

I'm hunting at the moment Spike, trying to find a cloud-based "shared drive" I can map on the desktops of all employees for sales/marketing collateral, project work etc., needs to have user permissions blah blah blah

Not something I have looked into at all but what about Amazon S3?

Who the fuck reads shit off screen?

Seriously

Don't know a single serious thinker who doesn't print everything they need to analyse.

Not sure if S3 is quite that capable, on the face of it it looks more to be solely backup solution.

I've just signed up to the Jungledisk/Rackspace option, and am half way through my initial back-up.

Dropbox maybe?

there used to be something called x drive but seems its closed , the page referred to :

https://www.box.net/

S3 would need a service on top of it and i havent found one yet

Im using rackspace atm but only for webservers. Looks pretty good.

Yeah that's basically all I need. Or something that has an easy to understand client that's similar to Explorer. Document versions would be an advantage as well. Looking at DriveHQ atm - http://www.drivehq.com/help/features/defaultStorage.aspx?service=&from=

bob - yeah paperless probably isn't the right term, but there's a LOT of paperwork there that can be scanned off and discarded. Seriously, there's pathways around some of it.

how did you go with this?
i am looking for a similar online storage service at the moment. any recommendations?

elephant drive claims to be using Amazon S3.

http://www.bestonlinebackupdeals.com/reviews/elephant-drive-review/

I went Ezyvault in the end. Being developed by an ex Biggie here in Melbs, has a pretty sweet interface, sweet encryption and not a bad price either. http://www.ezyvault.com.au

Let me know if you want a demo, can suss you out one

Oh should say, you can't configure it as a mapped drive, but that wasn't such a major with me. The biggest issue I had with all these online storage places was their "facelessness" I guess. I find it hard to trust a place I've just found on the internet. Especially when documents like the ones we were uploading were involved. The above works for me because I know the guy developing it. It's pretty cool technology too.

Try looking at their site without having a mate there, possibly the worst, least informative website i've ever seen! Then it talks about 1GB of storage for $125... what? A month? A year? A decade? For the rest of my life?

I can back 1GB of storage up in S3 for $1.20 a year.

Hmm guess Andrew doesn't approve. Man I'm totally gutted

yeah i think im gonna have the same issue.

found this firefox add-on to act as a client for Amazon S3 if anyone is interested.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247

windowslive has Skydrive 25gb of free space - there was an article in the herald the other day. one problem is 50mb file limit. its offers drag and drop tho its not quite as easy as a mapped drive.
the article (search "backup" ) also mentioned something else it considered even better.

What the hell? Forget to take your pills? Seriously go look at the website, you telling me thats informative and well designed?

Andrew I couldn't give a shit. Makky asked me what I chose and I told him. Live with it.