Cloud File Storage for Business: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

Cloud storage providers love talking about security, but the jargon and technical language can leave users guessing. Here's a plain-English guide to encryption, privacy features, and the safeguards that actually protect your files.

Storing and syncing files in the cloud makes your life easier and keeps your data safer. The best cloud storage services we've tested let you easily share and access files from anywhere and restore them if something goes wrong.

Box offers business-centric cloud storage with strong security, whiteboarding, AI tools, and unlimited data backups and e-signatures, but could use a snappier interface and fewer add-ons.

Google Drive is an easy-to-use cloud storage platform that's core to the business-focused Workspace platform, but questionable security at its lower tiers prevents the service from being tops in the category.

Dropbox Business gives small- to midsize businesses many productivity-enhancing tools, including advanced syncing options, enhanced collaboration, and OCR capabilities on mobile devices.

Microsoft OneDrive for Business is an excellent cloud storage and file-sharing service with plentiful storage, many security options, and high-quality mobile apps.

Proton Drive is our go-to option when it comes to stashing sensitive data in a secure place. And you can get 200 GB of cloud storage at 60% off for Black Friday. Did we read that right?

Internxt is a high-capacity cloud storage solution with strong privacy protections, perfect for anyone dealing with a lot of data.

Egnyte is an extensive, easy-to-use cloud storage service that lets businesses safely and effectively share important data.

Livedrive performs well as a basic business cloud syncing service with data-securing GDPR compliance, but its storage and file-sharing tools lag behind the competition.

The agency under Lina Khan has increasingly targeted Big Tech, but her days at the agency are almost certainly numbered as a second Trump administration looms.

Proton is adding more options for privacy-minded teams and businesses with 1TB of storage per user.

Give your Valentine the gift of cloud storage with Koofr, a truly private platform.

Japan drops floppy disks, which—alongside CD-ROMs—have long been required to submit more than 1,900 official documents to the government.

Google Support acknowledges there is a problem, but they don't know what's causing it (yet).

Internxt is an encrypted cloud solution that's a smart alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive.

User abuse and crypto miners forced Dropbox to introduce a storage cap.

Proton unlocks access to its ultra-secure cloud storage service on mobile devices.

Nobody will know the contents of your files, not even Dropbox.

A text file containing nothing more than the character 1 (or 0) apparently violates Google's terms.