Egnyte Now Helping Businesses Sync Over 5 Billion Files

We haven't covered file storage and synchronization service Egnyte before, but it's been around since 2008, and is now syncing roughly 5 billion files with more than 500,000 user licenses. In other words, there are quite a few people using it. Egnyte can best be described as a Dropbox-like service that focuses primarily on helping small and medium-sized businesses sync their files. But it isn't entirely cloud-based. Instead, it's using a so-called hybrid solution, where businesses keep a Network-Attached Storage device linked up to their office's computers, which serves as a 'local cloud' ?�all files are synced and backed up on this local, network connected hardware. Because these files are available on-site, Internet access isn't required to access them, and latency is minimized. These Local Clouds can consist of Netgear ReadyNAS devices, or VMware-based virtual appliances. But this same, 'local cloud' NAS is also hooked up to Egnyte's servers, and any changes made between the client computers and the files on the NAS are also synced up to the web for remote access. Once these files are in the cloud, company admins can enable file sharing between employees and also to business partners, who can be given restricted access to specific files.

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