VIDEO: Syncplicity Demo: Cloud Storage and Backup

welcome today we'll be looking at syncplicity a cloud backup and storage solution aimed at business and enterprise this review is brought to you by technologyadvice and the smart advisor tool which lets you compare 50 cloud backup and storage companies in under two minutes simplicity has a very robust set of admin tools which will be of interest to any large business planning to manage a lot of users this dashboard right here this is their web interface and we're under the admin and dashboard setting will tell you how many seats you have active which is your workstations how much of your storage you've consumed a little bit of your account info and then down here your storage consumption history which you can see for the last 10 20 or 30 days um if you go to reports this is an interesting feature it will let you download reports on the storage taken up by any user on the system the bandwidth that user has taken up or you can audit a user just audit a user option right here and you can put in your date range and that will give you every action that they've done on syncplicity or on their desktop client throughout that range so this is a great tool for it administrators and for large corporations who need to actively monitor what their employees are doing and view what's being shared on their network then the files tab here is their more traditional upload interface for syncing and sharing documents we have the default folders here and you can just drag files right into them so use our test test dock and once that's in there it'll give you options to download the file share the link if you click that you can see that you can require recipients to log in to download the file so they'll have to be users of simplicity or you can require them to enter a password to download the file and there's also a way to set expiration dates on these links so that after one day they won't be when they click it it won't go to anything you can also see the different versions of this file if we changed it so they have file versioning as well and then they have a desktop client their desktop client it allows you to manage your folders choose what exactly you want to back up on each workstation and you can also share the folders or download files from them onto the computer and so those are the two interfaces that syncplicity offers and that's a brief walkthrough of their user interface the pros simplicity has a very easy it's very easy to use it has a lot of features but they're pretty simple you can really pick it up and run with it it has a centralized admin control panel which we showed you and the ability to view reports on user behavior and also allows you to register employee devices to each account so you can see exactly where they're accessing it even if it's on their phone from their house it also offers file versioning which is really helpful if you're working in groups and you need to go back to an earlier version without some changes the downsides to syncplicity they don't have 24 7 customer support and there's no physical media restore so if you do lose files you'll have to download them using your internet connection before you make any decision on cloud storage however i recommend that you go to technologyadvice.com and check out the smart advisor tool that's going to let you compare simplicity to 50 different cloud backup and storage service providers in under two minutes

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