Many employers have realized the benefits in monitoring employees’ computer use, benefits which include; keeping workers focused, preventing intellectual property theft, helping to avoid lawsuits or criminal charges, and ensuring workers’ actions on company devices are appropriate and legal.

There are several types of software packages that track employees. But the volume of data accumulated can quickly become a problem.

Thanks for the Memories

It surprising how quickly storage requirements rack up as soon as you need to start tracking everything an employee does on a corporate computer or smartphone. Demand is such that some employee monitoring products require companies to have dedicated servers just for all the data. However, this option is expensive and can get unwieldy quickly.

Cloud-Based Storage is the Obvious Answer

Cloud storage means employers don’t have to worry about setting up a server, configuring a network or running out of disk space (ever).

All the associated costs of owning and maintaining storage hardware, such as drives and tapes, are done away with. All you need to worry about is a flat monthly fee and a login with a username and password…

Cloud Benefits

Going cloud offers some additional benefits too:

• Data can be accessed from anywhere and easily shared between users
• Safe from accidents, natural disasters and onsite theft
• Not a managed server – doesn’t need on-site IT staff to run.

But which products allow enough cloud storage space for adequate data saving?

A look at the options

Employee productivity software ActivTrak offers 1GB of cloud storage. However, the data needs of tracking many employees can easily exceed that, Whereas KnowIT Employee monitoringives customers 2GB of secure, private cloud storage.

Other KnowIT highlights:

There’s a lot of things that we do better than the competition, but here are a few of the key differentiating benefits to you.

• Access from anywhere via the Internet
• 2 months’ worth of data storage
• Automatic deletion to free up storage space
• Reporting settings can be tweaked to control the amount and frequency of data

For more information on how to use cloud storage for your employee monitoring needs, please go to the Digital Endpoint website.