Team Spaces
- Always-on end-to-end browser encryption
- Excellent access control down to the document level
- Easy drag-n-drop movement of files, including entire folders
- Decent notification mechanism using e-mail and/or a real-time client
- Easily modified to include external team members from other companies
- Includes a secure IM client for convenient intra- and inter-company IM
Company site: EMC eRoom
Groove
Groove is a Microsoft product that integrates very well with SharePoint. It can be a standalone-team space, or act as a bridge between two SharePoint team spaces located in different companies.
It’s always-on strong encryption is so good the US Defense department uses it for battlefield information sharing. Its biggest drawback is that it is a very heavy client application that everyone on the team must install and learn. Here are a few key features:
- Always-on end-to-end very strong encryption of every bit of communications between end points
- Excellent mechanism for connecting together anyone, anywhere
- Familiar Windows application interface with easy drag-n-drop file and folder movement
- Many included tools such as whiteboard, notepad, lists, folders, instant messaging, etc.
- Voice messaging and real-time voice capability
- Enterprise administration server option allows for more secure control over content and user access throughout the system
Company site: Microsoft Groove
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Justin Chen:
March 30th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
For really simple and cheap file sharing, you should check out Dropbox: http://www.getdropbox.com
On the mac, there’s some nice seamless integration so you can just drag files to a local folder and have it replicated to folders shared with your teammates. I think the first few gigs are free.
admin:
March 30th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
I think the technology in Groove (now part of Microsoft Office) is very cool. It is OOB secure with strong encryption, and it works peer-to-peer, with no need or concern about data store on servers anywhere. The only problem, you still need a relay server someplace that someone has to pay for. But, the concept was really neat.