October 13th, 2008
Egnyte: using and sustaining Enterprise 2.0
Egnyte, in a nutshell, is a software as a service, cloud storage application. But it’s a lot more than just that. It feels like your online home of files, storage and where you put your valuables.
Egnyte started out because the small business, which is roughly between 1 and 250 employees is a unique market and sensitive to investments, but generally there seems to be a low IT competence. With the advancements of technology and broadband getting faster, storage seemed less of a commodity. The world is getting more mobile with working from home, tele-working and commuting twice a day. The enterprise and small-medium market is accepting a more on-demand solution, and with this, Egnyte was created.
The service is an on-demand infrastructure with increased mobility, Web 2.0 sharing, virtual collaborative teams and on-demand storage. A unique solution is needed to support complex business needs and expanding business model.
If you read all that and thought, “yawn, you mentioned business related words, I’m switching off”, it bores me too. However take this on board instead. It’s basically Live Mesh but so much better and will probably always be better. I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed using Egnyte, which is something I can not always say about every product I’m pushed.
Egnyte is primarily an on-demand file server. In an ordinary on-site enterprise you’ll get sharing issues, backup issues and disaster recovery, security flaws which need patching, remote access violations and all other kinds of crap a workplace doesn’t need.
Egnyte eliminates the need for:
- physical servers
- backups
- added hardware
- maintenance overheads, as after all, a small-medium business doesn’t need these clogging up the workplace, as well as the financial impact.
It works excellently, if not specifically, for branch and distributed geographic offices, includes secure desktop and web access, has built-in disaster recovery, works incredibly well with sharing large files through direct transfer or hotlink sending and has a comprehensive auditing capability.
SaaS, security and file storage –>
Amongst many things, Zack Whittaker is a good-for-nothing, pink-sock wearing,
tea drinking, British student at the University of Kent, Canterbury, on the south-east coast of England. Currently in his second year, he decided to change courses to BA (Hons) Criminology and Social Policy, because he got bored with computer science.
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