Cloud Drive Mapper (CDM) overview
Originally released in 2014, CDM was initially a drive mapping utility for OneDrive for Business. From the beginning, it had two significant benefits over the native OneDrive sync client. Firstly, it creates drives, which is important for desktop applications that open/save data via drive letters. Secondly, it uses a real-time access model, not synchronisation, which means it avoids several of the inefficiencies and problems of the sync model.
Over time, its capability, feature set, and popularity have grown significantly. Following a complete ground-up redesign launched in 2024, CDM is now more than a simple drive mapping utility. In the IT world, it stands practically alone as an enterprise cloud storage integration and management platform. A platform that gives organizations unparalleled control over how cloud storage works and behaves in their IT environments.
Currently, Microsoft 365 remains the chief integration in CDM. While Microsoft 365 will always remain a key priority for us as Microsoft partners, we have enhanced the redesigned architecture of CDM to be modular and provider-agnostic. This means you will soon be able to integrate it with a wide range of SaaS cloud storage providers and IaaS cloud storage systems.
Cloud Drive Mapper isn’t simply a drive mapping tool. It isn’t a productivity tool or a collaboration tool. It isn’t a data security tool, a compliance tool, a document management tool, a remote working tool, or a user experience tool. It’s all of them combined and more.
