by Joe Gleinser
7. January 2010 01:02
Three weeks without a blog post makes me feel guilty. Thank goodness I'm genetically incapable of feeling guilt for more than about 10 seconds.
In 2010 GCS is expanding our cloud service offerings in online file storage, backup, email, application hosting, platform hosting, and infrastructure hosting. Our first type of offering is a web based file server. While researching the possibilities only one vendor met all of our requirements, Egnyte. Their On Demand File Server provides an simple web interface to access files, mapped network drive using WebDav, a ton of storage and other advanced features. Key among these features is their Local Cloud product. Internet connection speeds are still too slow to move large files from cloud storage to local use on a regular basis. Egnyte's Local Cloud products allows you to work locally and have those changes synchronized to the cloud. When you later access change the document in the cloud, it syncs changes back to the local storage.
With prices starting at $75 for 1TB of storage, this product looks incredibly enticing. In true "eating our own dog food" fashion, we're in the midst of an internal deployment after a successful round of testing. More to come soon! Happy New Year!