VIDEO: Egnyte File Sharing Demo

welcome today we'll be looking at ignite a cloud storage solution for Enterprise this review is brought to you by technology advice and the smart advisor tool which lets you compare over 50 cloud storage and backup companies in under 2 minutes now ignite builds itself as an Enterprise grade sharing service and they have some unique features for companies that need to keep a really close eye on where their data is and who's accessing it they offer Cloud file sharing that's their primary function um that works similar to a program like Dropbox in fact they build themselves as a Dropbox replacement for companies that need data security and you can see there basic um storage and file syncing interface right here this is their web interface it is drag and drop once you've logged on um see our test file it's pretty fast um equally fast as Dropbox or box or service like copy and you can also monitor your um file permissions in here um you can send a public link to the share button you can create folders um you have a private folder and a shared folders defaults interestingly ignite also allows you um some pretty granular control over who is accessing these folders so you can actually invite people into your documents folder for instance but restrict them from viewing some of the subfolders inside of that and I think that ignite is the only um file syncing service at the moment that lets you um change the permissions down to to the subfolder level then there's also this is sort of the admin screen but for just your local personal computer this is what it looks like and so you're going to have a um recent activity over here and a synchronization status and also your most recent syncs um it's set to do it pretty much continuously as you can see um and you can configure your folders uh depending on what you want to synchronize and whatever you check off here is just going to appear on your um on your computer and you can drag folders into there and then under settings this is the sync synchronization settings and that allows you to customize it um in pretty great detail um you can choose what time you want to go how many minutes between the syns um your internet bandwidth caps if you want to keep your connection free you can set a proxy a lot of lot of options in there now one of ignite's other big selling points is that it allows businesses to let their employees access files remotely behind the company firewall meaning that you don't have to upload the documents to the cloud before you share them before employees can access them from their home computers or on the go with mobile devices that's a big plus for companies involved in anything like Finance legal work or Healthcare where you can't really afford to upload sensitive files to the cloud but employees still might need them on the go and that's why they build themselves as a Dropbox competitor because in Dropbox where you would upload all of those ignite allows you to actually access them behind the company firewall the pros the user interface is simple but there's a lot of hidden options just under the surface and you have a lot of control over what employees can access and where they can access it including that subfolder control which is nice and your employees can access those files remotely while staying behind a firewall the drawbacks to ignite um there's no physical media restore if you have a lot of files on here in your hard drive crashes you will have to download them all from their web interface and it's not really a backup solution in that it doesn't do an automatic backup of your workstations it's a storage and file sharing service um just like an Enterprise version of something like box before you make any decisions on cloud storage we recommend that you go to technologyadvice.com and use the smart advisor tool and that'll let you compare ignite to over 50 different cloud storage and backup companies in under 2 minutes thank you for watching this review of ignite

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