One of the hardest things to do in any business, especially one in which some employees work remotely, is keep everybody on the same page and work together on projects. A wide variety of materials have stepped in to attempt to fill that niche, and one of the newest comes from YouSendIt, whose new product line Workstream looks to keep businesses, customers, and vendors all on the same page, no matter where they happen to be located.

Workstream allows for easy sharing of folders and files alike via cloud storage, thus allowing not only mobile users to access their necessary content while they're moving, but also allowing other necessary users to access those files on a variety of different platforms, including the variety of iOS devices as well as Android devices and full-on PC systems.

The product line is designed to work with Microsoft (News - Alert) Active Directory, SharePoint, and Outlook, providing a stable platform for software that many are already using. It allows users to share content in a fashion that's not only flexible, thanks to the number of different platforms it works with, but also secure, thanks to some solid encryption features like passcode enforcement and remote wipe capabilities.

There are already a healthy variety of customers using Workstream systems, including Sesame Workshop (News - Alert) and AMAG Pharmaceuticals, among others, so it's safe to say that this is likely to catch on.

And with good reason. While cloud storage should never be regarded as a replacement for physical storage, it does a spectacular job as a mobile storage concept or an offsite storage concept for your most important files, or for those files that are worked with by a variety of users needing centralized access to them. Whether you're a sales rep needing access to a catalog on the road, or you're a vendor looking to find out what's already in a customer's catalog so you know how to augment it, cloud storage does a good job of giving everyone who needs access to files access to them. Security, of course, becomes of paramount importance in the execution of a cloud system, but Workstream seems to have that well in hand.

It's safe to say that systems like Workstream are going to become more popular, and more widely used, in the years to come.