re: RES Software announces on-premise Dropbox-like "follow me data" solution called RES HyperDrive

Cees — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:16:51 GMT

Reminds me sort of of Tonido?

re: RES Software announces on-premise Dropbox-like "follow me data" solution called RES HyperDrive

Grant Tiller — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:46:38 GMT

Hi all - Grant Tiller Senior Product Manager at RES Software here.

Hopefully I can steer you in the right direction...

@ Daniel Schoppmann

Whilst RES HyperDrive has not been designed as a collaboration tool, there are some neat features that you may find useful in this respect.

1) a team HyperDrive will allow you to share data with your colleagues - syncing with your local machine (as with your personal HyperDrive, the local cache is encrypted for security and compliance)

2) you are able to send a link to a HyperDrive resource from within your e-mail client, and do nice things like set a permitted number of downloads from the link as well as a expiry date, when the hyperlink will become invalid.

You can also get a notification sent through to tell you when someone has downloaded the data that you share with them.

We believe these feature will prove useful, especially for our friends in Germany as well as verticals like health, finance and government who are all hyper-sensitive about where the data resides, and who can access it.

@ dominic_laplante@cascades.com

We would love to talk more to understand your use case on this one.

As it stands, RES HyperDrive will create an area on your on-premise storage media (i.e. SAN) which is mounted by a virtual appliance (VMware, Citrix and Microsoft flavours will all be covered)

Your HyperDrive is a folder that is created on here, and then shared out to your HyperDrive clients (PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, Android, Blackberries and Windows Phone) you can also access your HyperDrive via a web browser too!

For the devices that have storage capabilities, the content of your HyperDrive is cached locally, which is secured in an encrypted format.

You can define the location of this cache if you wish - and you could select a network location for the cache (either mapped drive or a \\servername\sharename network path)

However, you would only be able to access this data in it's unencrypted form via the RES HyperDrive client.

@ Rod Trent

Absolutely!

SharePoint will provide a lot of this functionality, and more besides and would be anyone’s first choice for collaboration.

However, our goal with RES HyperDrive is to introduce a very flexible solution for people that are looking for the flexibility of Dropbox and the cloud without the security worry of where the data is residing via a simple appliance that will integrate with storage that you already have in place.

The special sauce is that it is extremely easy to setup.

Give it an IP

Point it to the storage

Click Finish

It won't be the silver bullet to everyone, but we think a lot will find it useful!

@ Mads Soerensen

Not at this stage, but we would love to talk further in the near future about your requirements.

This is initially aimed at the SMB and Enterprise space, but further down the line we see great scope and potential to work together with integration partners and service providers.

Please keep an eye on www.reshyperdrive.com for more information.

For a quick walkthrough, have a look at the walkthrough my colleague Jeff Wettlaufer put up on YouTube earlier http://youtu.be/qV2hu6fFtGY

I know BrianMadden.com and consumerizeit.com don’t like vendors plugging, so I apologise if anyone thinks that this post feels like that in anyway – it wasn’t my intention to be salesy.

re: RES Software announces on-premise Dropbox-like "follow me data" solution called RES HyperDrive

Mads Soerensen — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:41:21 GMT

Brian, do you know if it's possible to white lable it, like ShareFile??

re: RES Software announces on-premise Dropbox-like "follow me data" solution called RES HyperDrive

Rod Trent — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:09:09 GMT

Can't Sharepoint already provide a similar feature?

re: RES Software announces on-premise Dropbox-like "follow me data" solution called RES HyperDrive

dominic_laplante@cascades.com — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:38:14 GMT

Is it possible to synch with a Network drive ?

re: RES Software announces on-premise Dropbox-like "follow me data" solution called RES HyperDrive

Daniel Schoppmann — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:02:19 GMT

Hi Brian

Thx for the article. That's exactly what I have been waitung for since I "married" dropbox ;-)

As you know, here in blurmany we do care a lot about where our data is stored and I was constantly wondering about why nobody sets up a dropbox like virtual appliance for the private cloud.

We will definitely test this!

But am I right, there is no plan of building in some colobaration features like the shared folder in Dropbox. That is by far the most important feature for me. Not having to "upload" or "download" anything, to give someone access to certain data, just to say "i've droped it". That's freaking easy!

Greetngs from Germany, Daniel