An online workspace is a virtual environment where your teams can work together to get their job done, without physically being in the same place. At a minimum, your online workspace should have features like:
- Calendar and Email
- Video calling and Chat messaging
- File sync and share with co-authoring
- Assignable Tasks
- Secure access from any device
We talk here about the 3 ways that a good online workspace should help you get your job done.
But where is the data stored? Many online workspaces will load balance where data is stored across a range of global data centres, meaning it’s often unclear exactly where your data is being stored and how it may be accessed.
For Australian teams, in addition to all the good things we’ve talked about above, your online workspace should also offer on-shore data storage options. e.g. in Australian based data centres (like AWS or NextDC) or on infrastructure that you manage on your own premise.
deskonline.cloud was created to offer Australian Businesses and individuals an online workspace with on-shore data storage options. We chose Nextcloud as the platform to build deskonline.cloud, an Australian based alternative to Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, Office 365 and all of the other cloud-based workspaces that don’t offer on-shore storage options.
There are two ways that deskonline.cloud can help you to transition to an easy to navigate online workspace with onshore data storage:
- we can work with your IT team to help you set up your own self-hosted Nextcloud online workspace; or
- we can do it for you and set you up with your own branded online workspace in deskonline.cloud.
Either way, we’d love to help! You can get in contact with us at info@deskonline.cloud or pop us a message on LinkedIn