Arthur Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 (edited) Source: OneDrive Blog Today, storage limits just became a thing of the past with Office 365. Moving forward, all Office 365 customers will get unlimited OneDrive storage at no additional cost. We've started rolling this out today to Office 365 Home, Personal and University customers. The roll out will continue over the coming months, so if you want to be one of the very first to get more storage, go here to put yourself at the front of the line. In the meantime, you can take advantage of the massive capacity you have today by activating the auto upload feature for your camera roll on your phone. For OneDrive for Business customers, unlimited storage will be listed on the Office 365 roadmap in the coming days and we will begin updating the First Release customers in 2015, aligned with our promise to provide ample notification for significant service changes. In the meantime, get started using your 1 TB of storage today by backing up all those work files kicking around on your PC – with the knowledge that even more storage is on its way! While unlimited storage is another important milestone for OneDrive we believe the true value of cloud storage is only realized when it is tightly integrated with the tools people use to communicate, create, and collaborate, both personally and professionally. That is why unlimited storage is just one small part of our broader promise to deliver a single experience across work and life that helps people store, sync, share, and collaborate on all the files that are important to them, all while meeting the security and compliance needs of even the most stringent organizations. We’re thrilled to continue our quest of making OneDrive the world’s cloud storage leader – and, always a key part of the best productivity service with Office 365. We’re all in! Stay tuned for more exciting announcements over the coming months. If you are already an Office 365 Home, Personal or University subscriber, click the link below to be one of the first to get unlimited OneDrive storage. https://preview.onedrive.com/?wt.mc_id=oo_blog_onedrive_insertblogtitlehere Edited October 27, 2014 by Arthur
Edu-IT Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 So this won't apply to the 'free' Education plans? Confused, slightly.
Arthur Posted October 27, 2014 Author Posted October 27, 2014 So this won't apply to the 'free' Education plans? Confused, slightly. It will, just not yet. From the OneDrive blog post quoted above... For OneDrive for Business customers, unlimited storage will be listed on the Office 365 roadmap in the coming days and we will begin updating the First Release customers in 2015, aligned with our promise to provide ample notification for significant service changes. In the meantime, get started using your 1 TB of storage today by backing up all those work files kicking around on your PC – with the knowledge that even more storage is on its way! Office 365 for Education uses OneDrive for Business, not OneDrive so that is why we will have to wait a bit longer.
timbo343 Posted October 28, 2014 Posted October 28, 2014 What are peoples views on this in terms of storage on site? What does this mean for our file servers? Could this be the end of onsite file servers? Will we still manage user's files on site, are you prepared to put your confidential/personal data there or do you keep it in your racks?
ellsandell Posted October 28, 2014 Posted October 28, 2014 What are peoples views on this in terms of storage on site? What does this mean for our file servers? Could this be the end of onsite file servers? Will we still manage user's files on site, are you prepared to put your confidential/personal data there or do you keep it in your racks? Don't think the Onedrive for business is good enough to do this yet, but I think if they built the a way of mirroring local storage (User Files) with the could we would probably opt for that. Would also need a better way of managing user files stored. Like all data hosted with Microsoft as long as its covered by he safe harbor agreement, I can't see it being too much of an issue. I do think encryption is a must however.
fiendishlyclever Posted October 28, 2014 Posted October 28, 2014 I don't think the consumer version is where it needs to be either. I want to see more Dropbox features like an activity stream and better undelete/recovery options before I use it for more than a backup of my photographs...
dhicks Posted October 28, 2014 Posted October 28, 2014 What are peoples views on this in terms of storage on site? Pretty much as ellsandell says above - my plan is to have local files mirrored to both Microsoft and Google's cloud services, with the idea being that any user can come along and edit a file locally or online via Microsoft / Google infrastructure, whichever they prefer. We'd also have that mirror to offsite backup storage, with versioning, so we'd wind up have four copies of everything, all in different locations, which strikes me as an acceptable backup stratagey.
dhicks Posted October 28, 2014 Posted October 28, 2014 I think there's still a 20,000 item limit Darn. Is that limit per user?
the_dude Posted October 28, 2014 Posted October 28, 2014 per user, yes. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2933738 20,000 * 10GB = 200TB...size wise at least that's unlimited in my book. 1
dhicks Posted October 28, 2014 Posted October 28, 2014 20,000 * 10GB = 200TB...size wise at least that's unlimited in my book. I reckon some of our shared folders might run to 20,000 items - I'll have to have a count up and get some exact numbers. Hmm, I could always have an account per share...
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