(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In its mission to integrate cloud services directly onto user desktops, cloud storage client developer Gladinet (www.gladinet.com) has moved one step closer to its goal with its release of Gladinet Cloud Desktop 2.0, which includes security, usability and performance enhancements.
According to its announcement this week, Cloud Desktop is the world’s first ubiquitous cloud storage client that lets users access the cloud directly from a PC desktop using Windows Explorer to move or store files to multiple cloud storage services at once with a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface.
One of the major upgrades in Cloud Desktop 2.0 is the introduction of AES 128-bit encryption for files stored in the cloud. Tackling the security concerns that are often the deal-breaker when considering migrating to cloud storage, Gladinet Cloud Desktop 2.0 encrypts users’ files on the storage client before saving them on the servers in their encrypted form.
“One of the major concerns of cloud storage users is security,” Gladinet business development senior vice president Franklyn Peart said in a statement. “How can users be sure hackers, service provider employees or anyone else can’t look at their files when they’re online? Until now, that was a nagging question with no good answer.”
Beyond the security enhancements, Gladinet added a variety of new features designed to provide better usability, performance, stability and scalability. The new Gladinet Management Console completely reworks and consolidates all the management interfaces for the Cloud Desktop virtual directory manager, task manager, settings manager, backup manager and audit tracing. And the new Cache Manager offers smart caching and granular cache controls.
Cloud Desktop 2.0 is considerably more robust than earlier iterations, transferring terabytes of data with dozens of upload and download threads, while maintaining transfer rates of up to four megabytes per second. To do so, the system uses mirrored folders to pre-cache files and utilizes Smart Bandwidth Control to allocate more bandwidth to the browser when it is in use; once the browser is idle, Cloud Desktop resumes normal transfer speeds.
Gladinet Cloud Desktop has always been fully integrated with the major cloud storage providers including Google Docs, Google Picasa, Google Docs for Google Apps, EMC Atmos Storage, Amazon S3, Nirvanix, Box.net and AT&T Synaptic Storage.
In January, Gladinet added the Microsoft Windows Azure platform to the list of cloud storage providers that its service platform supports, meaning that users can map a network drive to Windows Azure Blob Storage and start using it from Windows Explorer.
With Cloud Desktop 2.0, Gladinet provided enhancements for Google Picasa, Docs and Apps. The system now supports any file type in Google Storage, while the new Cloud Explorer allows the user to set access controls and share files with Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage.
“We are excited to introduce Gladinet Cloud Desktop 2.0 as the industry-leading, ubiquitous cloud storage access solution,” Peart said. “Gladinet developers will continue to operate at the forefront of the cloud industry and set the standard in cloud storage clients.”
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