For those of you running small businesses, Egnyte's cloud file server and backup is a great product. We use it at work for distributing files to clients and keeping global files easy to access. We also backup a few OSX servers using the service. It is great all around. We haven't had an outage in the 6 months we've been customers. I could go on and on..
Last month, however, Egnyte got really Apple friendly by releasing an iPhone web client. We can now browse our file servers while on the road with an iPhone. This is actually a great feature if you just need a quick look at a document or image. The iPhone thinks Egnyte's servers are web servers and if you download a .doc file, it uses the iPhone's Quicklook to look at the file. This works with all of the iPhone's Quicklook abilities including PDFs, XLS and PPTs.
But this is where it gets interesting...
Our Egnyte file server also house MP4 movies for clients. Some almost a gig in size. Also, we have more than a few audio files saved as MP3s. Surely these won't play on the iPhone over an AT&T 3G connection?
Actually for once, I have to give it to AT&T. I was able to stream a client presentation that was saved in MP4 format while on the road. It of course looked and sounded great on the iPhone and it is available whenever I want. It is an amazing feeling to have secure access to all of your company's files from the palm of your hand - at all times.
If you haven't checked out Egnyte yet, do yourself the favor. They have a free 15 day trial of use and if you are a small company or individual considering buying or upgrading a file server, you will be hard pressed to find a better solution. Oh, and did we tell you they are extremely Mac and iPhone friendly?
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Question: How secure are the
Question: How secure are the files on Egnyte's server?
It is all https: from login
It is all https: from login page to logout. You can create public files which you can just send clients a URL however.
Why are you so willingly
Why are you so willingly giving a company access to your companies most importants assets? There's no guarantees from EGNYTE in any form, even if you pay for the service. I didn't even see any hints that data is stored only in encrypted form on their servers.
Have you asked your customers what they think about you storing data at a place that you don't have control over?
Egnyte Security and Privacy
Security and Data Privacy is a key focus at Egnyte. Security is addressed not only at access/application/network/storage layer, but also in terms of processes. Our data centers are SAS 70 compliant and also recenltly, we went through a HIPAA audit.
We have customers that range from CPA Firms, Engineering Firms, Web/Print Design Firms, Medical Professionals etc where the need for data security and privacy is critical. We also have some resellers that provide the Egnyte solution to Financial Services professionals with stringent SEC requirements (here’s a link to one of them: http://www.orionadvisor.com/).
You are right, that there is always a possibility that a company could go under. We have, specifically, to address that concern, provided a "Data Availability" clause in our Terms of Service.
Feel free to write to me at vjain@egnyte.com, if you have any questions.
Vineet
Ifolder
We have ifolder installed in our organization and it allows us to do the exact same while maintaining complete control over our data. For my organization this type of cloud has been around for us for two years now.
The combination between Novell ifolder, on OES server gives us a mac client that backs up in the background to the our servers. As well as a web interface that is accessible via any web browser and that includes an iphone.
This solution is also inline with all of our corporate policies and security practices. Our outages are maintained and controlled by our internal staff and datacenter. Organizations should really think about trading their data so freely for such minor accessibility gains.
Also combined with Novell Teaming or for opensource people Kablink you can add customer access. aThere is a opensource version o ifolder as well so everyone should be happy.
Egnyte is a great product
Egnyte is a great product that I would recommend to anyone. It makes it easy to share secured docs with clients as well as backup all my data.
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