Egnyte Storage Service Combines Google Cloud, Local Data
July 19, 2013
Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
Local storage and the Google (GOOG) cloud have become one in the most recent offering from Egnyte, which has unveiled a platform for enterprises to offer users access to data of all types from a single location. Now, the question is whether it can steal market share from alternative storage services such as Dropbox.
Egnyte has been around since 2006, and it first began offering its namesake cloud file server product in 2008. With the latest release of the platform this week, however, Egnyte now offers Google Drive integration that it says "provides enterprise customers with the flexibility and security to use the collaboration, storage and sharing tools that best fit their needs."…
The solution allows users to access all of their files, whether they are stored locally or in the cloud, from a single location. Importantly, it also lets enterprise IT staff manage permissions and perform auditing on that information, which is one of the features that make Egnyte different from other services including Dropbox…
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