Egnyte and ReadyNAS

I haven't tried it, but there is a link to a review (perhaps you could contact the reviewer?): http://www.readynas.com/?p=3629.

I don't know if this only works with x86 ReadyNas or not. I'd recommend the NVX, Pro, 2100, 3200, 3100 or 4200.

We support both infrant (sparc) and intel based ReadyNAS devices - like Duo, NV+ on the low-end and Pro, NVX etc on higher end.

egnyte wrote:
We support both infrant (sparc) and intel based ReadyNAS devices - like Duo, NV+ on the low-end and Pro, NVX etc on higher end.

Great, can you tell me about local users mapping to the NAS via drive letter for normal nas usage? How do the permissions for Egnyte correlate to the user permissions on the nas.

Once the local cloud "add-on" is installed, you can map the local NAS user to the username in the Egnyte Cloud File Server. Subsequently, when the synchronization happens, the cloud ACL's are applied to the file system on the NAS device. Any changes made in the folder permissions in the cloud, are automatically percolated down to the NAS device.

This is from our product guide:
Local access permissions are automatically managed
Egnyte synchronizes all access permissions from the Cloud File Server into the NAS device. This allows users to access files locally with the same level of security as they would on the Cloud File Server. No additional directory service is required to establish access security. Optionally, it can integrate with an existing directory service like Active Directory."

Been testing this out for the last day or two. Quite impressed so far. Only thing I'd really like to see added is Encryption of resting data with a private key.

BSRdr wrote:
Been testing this out for the last day or two. Quite impressed so far. Only thing I'd really like to see added is Encryption of resting data with a private key.

Agreed, but then how would you share data with Egnyte Standard users accessing through the web? I'm OK with them storing the file server data unencrypted, but at least offer encryption for the backup portion of their service. This is one of the reasons why I continue loving Jungledisk for backup. I hold the encryption keys and no one else. Very few cloud backup services like that! Egnyte is more than just backup though.....

claykin, Using ReadyNAS Vault you can use your own key as well I believe. So if you choose to use your own key and then lose it, there goes your Vault backups.

Yes Egnyte is far more than backups. It's good for sharing documents and syncs changes made on the cloud or on the NAS, not just one way.

mdgm wrote:
claykin, Using ReadyNAS Vault you can use your own key as well I believe. So if you choose to use your own key and then lose it, there goes your Vault backups. Yes Egnyte is far more than backups. It's good for sharing documents and syncs changes made on the cloud or on the NAS, not just one way.

Correct, losing your encryption password means your data is lost, but as far as I'm concerned that is acceptable alternative to having to trust an unknown with my data. Frankly I don't care how many certifications they have, SAS, UL, CE, HIPAA, etc... I cannot trust that their datacenters are trustworthy, their employees are trustworthy, and every employee that ever worked for them is trustworthy. There's been too many examples of data loss associated with supposed "trusted" providers.

Jungledisk offers sync and with their 3.1 beta they are offering public file sharing. Its not really competitive with Egnyte's file sharing solution which I believe is more competitive with Sharepoint. Haven't tested Egnyte but have heard fairly good things.

mdgm, did you give Egnyte a trial run?

I've tried the egnyte software - though not a particularly thorough test. Overall it appeared to do as it claimed with no major issues except one - I could only get it to work under windows. I reported the issue to which was acknowledged by Egnyte, but no follow up since then and the lack of mac support stopped my tests pretty much dead (I only ran the windows test to diagnose why I couldn't get the software to work on my mac)

BTW: My issue may not actually be an Egnyte caused problem. It was this that caused the issue:

Local access permissions are automatically managed Egnyte synchronizes all access permissions from the Cloud File Server into the NAS device. This allows users to access files locally with the same level of security as they would on the Cloud File Server. No additional directory service is required to establish access security. Optionally, it can integrate with an existing directory service like Active Directory."

The permissions are enforced via ACLs on the ReadyNAS - they were there and all seemed correct but my macs could not access any protected folder over AFP or CIFS, and ReadyNAS hasn't rolled out NFSv4 yet (though it appears to be in the kernel). So this may be somethign related to ACL support on Macs or on the ReadyNAS

I was having a look at this new offering also but was wondering, the Office-NAS plan is $89.98 per month and the similar small business plan via the website is only $50 a month.

With a quick look, the only difference I could see is the NAS server license, seems a bit of a high premium unless I am missing something else.