Egnyte Now Helping Businesses Sync Over 5 Billion Files LINK by @jasonkincaid ... 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

Really interesting backup solution: Egnyte Now Helping Businesses Sync Over 5 Billion Files | @techcrunch LINK ... 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 appl

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