Egnyte and ReadyNAS

Gareth -

Thanks for your response and interest in Egnyte. You have got the cost breakdown pretty much right for the solution. The cloud service costs $49.99/month for 10 users and 1 TB online storage. Now right of the bat, I would say that is one of the most competitive deals in the market for an online file server (not pure backup, but an online file server). If you add the NAS license, $39.99/month, then yes, that's a bit south of $90/month.

When you say expensive, I am not sure what you are comparing this to. The solution Egnyte-Netgear jointly offer (and hence the cost ) should be compared to the cost and maintenance structure of a traditional file server. The join Egnyte-Netgear solution eliminates the need for servers, VPN, local backups etc. Not just that, the cloud aspect offers a host of attendant capabilities - file collaboration, mobile access, file versions, sharing with customers (so you can replace FTP), file distribution using links and search capability. These are capabilities that a traditional file serving infrastructure does not provide and you would need additional point solutions to meet these needs. This would significantly drive up the cost of a comparable solution using traditional means into several hundred dollars or a few thousand dollars per month, not to mention significant upfront capex spend as well.

We have a cost calculator on the Egnyte site (http://www.egnyte.com/corp/hardware_vs_ ... lator.html) - you are welcome to run this to compare a traditional file serving solution compared to the join Egnyte-Netgear solution. This would be the apples-apples comparison.

Given all these capabilities, our customers feel that the solution we offer jointly with Netgear is a steal. A cost of file serving for 10 users at less than $90 /month is a steal for them. This is why we have over 100 joint customers already with Netgear in the very brief time we have offered this. These range all the way from 5-10 user firms to companies with several hundred employees across multiple offices.

I hope this explanation helps break down the price/value ratio of the offering. If you would like to discuss further, please feel free to also reach out to me directly (Rajesh Ram, rram@egnyte.com). Once again, thanks for your interest and for looking at our join solution with Netgear.

Hi Rajseh,

Thanks for the replay, I guess I missunderstoood a lot of the business usage features. Do you think in the future there is the possibility of an offer for power home uses that wants to look at offsite backup with their readynas - it would seem like a good fit.

Gareth wrote:
Hi Rajseh, Thanks for the replay, I guess I missunderstoood a lot of the business usage features. Do you think in the future there is the possibility of an offer for power home uses that wants to look at offsite backup with their readynas - it would seem like a good fit.

As far as I can tell, Egnyte is designed to replace a SMB or SOHO file server. It incorporates some permission features that one would typically get using a DC and Sharepoint. It indirectly acts as backup by keeping a copy of your data in their cloud (and/or your Readynas).

I poked around Egnyte's solution a bit a couple months back, and while it looks good, there is still some quirkiness associated with the local vs. cloud based shares. Upload/download by users can be confusing. Maybe that will improve as the product matures.

I know this is an old post, but those of you that tried Egnyte before should see how much we've improved.
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Cheers!
~ Johnny