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As someone actively pushing a company away from that model to the ubiquitous M365/SharePoint/OneDrive approach, there are so many hidden costs to 'a network sha

As someone actively pushing a company away from that model to the ubiquitous M365/SharePoint/OneDrive approach, there are so many hidden costs to 'a network share'. How are you managing VPN access to file servers? How about backups/versioning? Any searching? Access control that can be easily managed by end users? Data governance, RBAC, compliance audits? BYOD/mobile device access?

troyvit 2y ago
> How are you managing VPN access to file servers? How about backups/versioning? Any searching? Access control that can be easily managed by end users? Data governance, RBAC, compliance audits? BYOD/mobile device access? This seems like a great idea for a SaaS product.
- sbarre 2y ago
  Yeah it's called Google Workspace.
  - troyvit 2y ago
    Maybe some aspects, but I don't know about the VPN side of it, and my point was directly to the idea of managing shared drives.
    - sbarre 2y ago
      That's fair.. Google does have BeyondCorp but that's not standard in Workspace.. So it's not a packaged deal.