Product Improvements
It has been a successful couple of months and based on your feedback, we are introducing several new features and also
focusing on nurturing the increasing Egnyte users community. Here's a highlight.
Continuing with our vision of the Hybrid Cloud, we have released a version of the Local Cloud
dubbed as "Enterprise Local Cloud". This follows in the footsteps of the
Personal Local Cloud (on your PC),
Office Local Cloud (on Netgear NAS) and now a VMware Virtual Machine,
enabling you to deploy this solution on any hardware platform of your choice - Linux or Windows servers and storage devices -
Direct Attached, NAS and SAN. Further, it has integration capability with existing directory services like LDAP and AD, enabling
businesses to leverage existing investments. User management and file access controls are applied and automatically maintained across the the
Local Cloud and the Cloud File Server. Optionally, you can use existing
directory services like ADS or LDAP for user management.
Single File Upload
Single file upload widget has been significantly improved. This method is designed for small file uploads (typically < 25MB).
Previously, often times users would try uploading larger files via this method that could fail due to timeouts. Now, Egnyte detects that the file size is greater than 25MB and automatically suggests using the java based multi-file uploader (which does file compression and chunking to ensure that file uploads happen successfully from the slowest of connections) or ftp. With this improvement we hope to make the file upload process a smoother user experience and ensure that your uploads happen successfully.
Send Link Capability Improvements
Based on significant user feedback, we have introduced several new controls for sharing files via links. You can now expire links based on number of clicks in addition to time based expiration. Equally important, you can set links so that they will always point to the latest version of the file.
When you send the link, you can now select users from the existing set of Egnyte users or select from the contact list in your email accounts with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Outlook etc. The send link emails are now sent out from Egnyte with better formatting (as compared to previously, you opening your email and pasting the links manually). One commonly requested control on disabling link creation or controlling default link expiration, has also been added.
Improved Trash Can Management
Previously, the account administrator had to manually select each file in the Trash Can to restore or delete. Now they can select all files for deletion or restoration, improving overall efficiency.
Google Apps Integration
Google Docs pure cloud based service for managing word processing, spreadsheets and presentations is now a seamless extension to the Egnyte
Cloud File Server. Egnyte enables companies to operate in a hybrid world by using Microsoft Office and Google Docs, providing one integrated view and access point to all their files.
All the Google Docs folders and files can be browsed from within the user's Egnyte account.
Additionally, Egnyte fully leverages Google Doc's online editing capabilities to let businesses access and edit Google files or Microsoft Office files online.
For example, a company can share an excel spreadsheet from its Egnyte file server with its business partner. Even if the partner does not have the Excel program, they can easily view or edit the spreadsheet using Google Docs. The updated spreadsheet will be seamlessly merged back into the Egnyte Cloud File Server.
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