![]() Intelligent Access to Cloud and On-Premises Content - When a user is working on a file, the desktop app will automatically select the copy that is the closest to the user in order to reduce latency and optimize bandwidth cost.Once the internet connection is re-established, the desktop app will automatically sync the edited files with Egnyte Connect so all other corporate users can see the changes made. Users will also be able to mark any files and folders for offline access, allowing them to keep working with limited or no internet connectivity. Working Online and Offline - When a user has Internet connectivity, the desktop app will automatically show all the corporate content available to a user.Egnyte is adamant that its new desktop app will have multiple benefits for users. In the old way of working, a user would open a particular file and, hence, by default would specify which location to open it from. In marketing speak, Egnyte explains that the connector is "leveraging analytics to bridge content silos and intelligently optimize user experience based on location and access method." So what is a simple explanation of what is actually a pretty compelling offering?Įgnyte will now contextually chose where a file should be accessed from. It is this intelligence thing which is particularly interesting. It is focused on delivering a global file architecture distilled into a very simple desktop app - and hence a global file system. In doing so, regardless of where the content exists - on-premises, in the cloud and/or on the desktop - Egnyte offers intelligence around the shortest way to the data. In line with this, Jain believes that this release is the culmination of the company's hybrid vision - a desktop app that exposes an entire file system. ![]() ![]() While Jain sees a rapid migration of data occurring from traditional storage locations to the cloud, the fact is that significant amounts of data still resides on-premises. It is important to think about this release within the context of Egnyte's core beliefs. This is the next step in taking businesses from the 'Information Age' to the 'Intelligence Age,' where they will have smarter content and ultimately smarter businesses." "The new release of Egnyte Connect decouples 'content location' from 'user experience' by automatically providing users the fastest route to their content and allowing IT to modernize the content infrastructure without users ever noticing. "As the amount of content in organizations continues to grow exponentially and is spread across many storage systems and cloud applications, it's becoming difficult for employees to figure out how to quickly and efficiently access what they need to get their jobs done," said Jain. The rationale behind the offering is clearly articulated by Egnyte. The idea is to decouple the "where is the content?" questions from anything related to user experience. The desktop app leverages a user experience that most people are familiar with - the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer - and via this gives access to every piece of content a user needs. This latest release, however, includes a desktop application which gives users the ability to collaborate on any corporate content with no limits on file size, type or location. To explain what is going on here, Egnyte Connect has always been about bringing together content sitting in different siloed repositories. ![]() This is the thinking behind Egnyte's latest release of its Connect product, a release that - in unusually bombastic style for one so modest - Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain says will "build a 'Content Superhighway' to accelerate productivity." If you're a vendor in the content collaboration space that wants to really make a difference to knowledge workers' productivity, your key challenge is to collapse this complexity - or at least find ways to obfuscate the actual complexity that exists. This problem holds true within the organization where workers of today are bombarded by information from (and in) a plethora of different places. Those days are well and truly gone and we're all awash in information, much of it fake or - at best - alternative. Sometimes I yearn for the good old days where news was delivered on printed paper once a day, and information was either gleaned from one's school friends or alternatively from that huge collection of Encyclopedia Britannica your parents purchased in a moment of weakness. ![]()
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