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Business version of Wuala
The nicest thing about wuala for me, apart from file availability and encryption, is the network drive option for Windows computers. This is because it is transparent to the user and requires no additional steps to work with files, you simply manipulate the files as if they were on a local drive. In a business environment this would be great because the user needs no additional training to use the program.
What I would like to see is a version of the client for mobile business users with the following features:
-Disable 'world' access so that business documents cannot be shared with the outside world
-Enhanced sharing permissions and access control
-Better Windows x64 network drive integration and Linux FUSE support
-Sync to local 'master copy' of files, on company intranet server.
I think businesses would gladly pay for such a version because of small infrastructure & training costs.
What I would like to see is a version of the client for mobile business users with the following features:
-Disable 'world' access so that business documents cannot be shared with the outside world
-Enhanced sharing permissions and access control
-Better Windows x64 network drive integration and Linux FUSE support
-Sync to local 'master copy' of files, on company intranet server.
I think businesses would gladly pay for such a version because of small infrastructure & training costs.
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Inappropriate?one thing about the syncing of stuff and maybe the roadwarrior (mobile user) scenario with heavy "offline" times.
it would be great for example if i could "subscribe" (sync/watch-for-changes) to some elements in the wuala store.
for example coworker1 takes his mobile device/laptop with wuala running out of the office to some client where he needs to show some presentation, demos, chars, drawings, pictures and so on.
coworker2 in some other department creates some of the stuff for this client the company works for currently.
coworker2 dumps some nice ppt/pdf/younameit in wua.la/worldcompany/importantclient/collectionoffilez.zip
whenever coworker1 is connected to the wuala network the wuala client at coworker1s machine should automatically try to fetch all the elements/stuff that he is subscribed to, for example the stuff that coworker2 creates in that above directory/location/url....
the magic is the work automagically.... automagical sync whenever i connect the wuala client to the wuala network in any way... coworker1 needs to stay up-to-date with the changes and material coworker2 supplies and creates and maybe even vice-versa (random access memory group - read/write for all the groupmembers, all groupmembers subscribe to this group for example) and so on....
what i miss at a lot of times that wuala clients still lack some basic intelligence or data syncing/mirroring/fetching/pushing/pulling settings and methods.....
so far you can only use your wuala-stored data (when you are in an offile/network-less area) when you actually have downloaded it (click/download).
but it would be great if there was an auto push/pull/sync setting that could be applied and configured extensively and in detail for a certain object, for certain kinds of objects (filters, regexp, younameit), sync-policies, rulesets and so on......
anyone agree? cheers.
also: it would be great if i run multiple wuala clients with the same credentials each of the wuala clients should actually mirror all (just as an example, read: configurable of course) the data that belongs to that wuala account.
this would ensure the presence of the piece of data at the additional wuala clients (and also the other way around), and again in the case of network outage and all those scenarios. and it would also add to the propagation, distribution and redundancy/backup-quality of the stored data.
even when i run multiple wuala clients at distinct locations at high uptime percentage, in cases of networkoutage at a specific wuala client i cant access my own data on that wuala client if it hasnt actually downloaded its own data (just an example scenario) at least once before......
it would be great if the user could select things like:
- mirror/store/sync my own data on this storage/client for x% (amount) of the local datastore-capacity
- always store/sync own elements changed/accessed in the last x hours/days/weeks/months/years/from date to date.... / younameit...
- always store content X (favorites, links, other users data, groups, filters/regexp,.....
there are basically a bazillion ideas for this......
i can think of great discussions on the details. -
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about the world area: having a setting 'hide public area (world)' in the preferences would be simple. this would hide the world tab, as well as the option to publish files. if you clicked on a link that points into the world area, you'd be asked if you like to activate the world area again. this could be set by the sys admin... would that do the trick?
about synching: you'd like to subscribe to certain folders and then it would download these files automatically? that'd be simple. synching in general though as quite a "beast" and requires good concepts. it's always on the far horizon somewhere on our todo lists, but it probably won't make it to the public beta. we first need to understand what people really need... ok for you?1 Comment
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This is one of the best points
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Yes, a simple automatic download of certain files would be enough, for my purpose at least. For more enhanced syncing needs I would rely on a versioning control system instead. -
Inappropriate?>-Enhanced sharing permissions and access control
ah, about this one, what do you have in mind?1 Comment Add a comment
This is one of the best points
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Basically for a sysadmin to be able to control group membership and folder access, similar to filesystem permissions in ntfs/unix filesystems.
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Inappropriate?May sound too critical and I really like wuala ́s idea: But for the above mentioned business use: This is what I use windows folder share for and it works perfectly for me. It justs synchs specified folders between different computers in the background, whenever I am near the internet. Like this I can have the same data on the server, my laptop, can share a folder with my colleague without having to even think of pressing any synch-button. The only disadvantage might be, that I can only access the data from specified PCs but for business use, this is just fine. (And up to now, this service is free of charge.)
So if wuala should expand into business cases, I think there is strong competition out there! But I am not a technician, so there might be some weak points in windwows folder share ;-)
I’m sorry to be disencouraging
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Inappropriate?Most companies have *one* huge fileserver and 200+ computers...
The fileserver has like 2TB storage.. but if you add the 200+ computers with an average of 80gb free space... that makes a whole lot more :)
I'd propose that to my fellow IT staff :)
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Inappropriate?Also if folder share goes offline (like the "plays 4 sure" DRM Servers) there goes your data!
AND it's not encrypted, afaik.
AND it's rather limited in size.
AND it might not always be free of charge (I don't really trust Microsoft in this case, and I certainly would NOT upload any sensitive files to their servers! Possibly unencrypted!)
AND it's a "Windows Live" Service... no Linux, no OS-X, no Unix, no Solaris, no ...
Wuala however has also it's downsides for business cases too, butbetter support for this might be an option for 2009 or 2010 and Wuala 2.0 or something (the Open Source version ;-) ) but definetly not for Alpha or (early) Beta!
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