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Their recommendation isn't going to work for me at work. They actively block Google Drive/Dropbox/Skydrive/etc.
by jhawk28 13y ago
Their recommendation isn't going to work for me at work. They actively block Google Drive/Dropbox/Skydrive/etc.
- carsondu 13y agoWell why do they that do that? It's like complaining that Amazon can't deliver to you because you don't allow FedEx in your building.
- giovannibajo1 13y agoI know some companies that just have a blacklist of services that can't be used (popular cloud ones); then of course you can use the N+1 clone of such services, until it gets popular enough for the IT dept to ban it. Eg: Dropbox & Drive are blocked, but maybe copy.com isn't. IOW they block Drive not because they don't want people to download open source tarballs from it, but because they don't want them to use it for company files/docs.
- carsondu 13y agoHow about they just ask their employees not to use it for company files? Or do they think their employees are idiots or not trustworthy? How do they think that reflects on them and their employees?
- giovannibajo1 13y agoMy experience is that, beyond some size threshold, people tend to stop caring about generic company policies because they don't understand them (nor they are well communicated or explained, since there is a large gap between management and employees) and just do whatever is handy to them. At the same time, management stop thinking that trust works as a way to enforce policies and start enforcing them technically.
- simonh 13y agoFinancial services companies have legal obligations to cntroll the ways their information is managed. Even in other industries there are some kinds if information for which legal restrictions and responsibilities apply to their storage and dissemination.
- dgesang 13y agoMore like: they want to enforce the use of their own delivery service, because they don't trust FedEx.
- yeukhon 13y agoBut I don't get why they didn't block Google Code in the first place, given it is part of Google. Google Drive or Skydrive is probably the best alternative, depending on the corporate environment.