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OneDrive Delivers Unlimited Cloud Storage To Office 365 Subscribers

Posted by samzenpus on from the bigger-cloud dept.

First time accepted submitter FlyHelicopters writes "Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, and others have been competing to become your favorite place to store stuff in the cloud. Just this past June, Microsoft upgraded Office 365 users from 25GB to 1TB, now they are upping the ante with unlimited OneDrive storage. There remains a single file size limit of 10GB per file, it is not clear if that limit will be removed with this upgrade.

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  1. Who cares by Spy+Handler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    when most of your subscribers have an upstream bandwidth of 1mbps or less, does it matter whether their storage limit is 1 TB or 100000 TB?

    1. Re:Who cares by FlyHelicopters · · Score: 3, Insightful

      While that is a fair point... Those speeds will increase over time.

      Just this month, Verizon FIOS upgraded our service with what they call "SpeedMatch":

      http://campaign.verizon.com/fa...

      So if you have 35 megabits down, now you have 35 megabits up. 75 down, 75 up, etc...

      Granted, not everyone has FIOS, or can get it, but it may well provide pressure to others (Comcast we're looking at you) to match it.

  2. Re:Sky drive? by afidel · · Score: 3, Informative

    They got sued by the UK broadcaster BSkyB and lost so they had to change the name.

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  3. NSA Indexing by labnet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What a gift to the NSA!

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    1. Re:NSA Indexing by Shaman · · Score: 3, Insightful

      This.

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  4. All cloud services story needs this in the headlin by sandbagger · · Score: 3, Insightful

    OneDrive Delivers Unlimited Cloud Storage To Office 365 Subscribers...for now.

    Clouds evaporate, people.

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  5. If it supports rsync I'll care. by ron_ivi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Anyone know of such a service that supports the rsync protocol (either over ssh or any other rsync-friendly transport). If so - bandwidth limitations don't suck so bad; since you'd be typically just streaming incremental changes.

  6. So MS biz model = Olive Garden? by jpellino · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's back! Never Ending Data Bowls starting at $9.99!

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  7. Re:Sky drive? by Noah+Haders · · Score: 4, Interesting

    my work has office 365 accounts and i'll be darned if I can get sky drive sync to work. it doesn't seem like its' a replacement for dropbox or sync.com.

    BTW I highly recommend sync.com. It has the same feature set as dropbox, but it's a Canadian company and doesn't have condi on the board. I'm not naïve, I know that FBI/NSA will git you wherever you are, but seriously eff dropbox they can kma.