![]() Around a half billion dollars has been raised by those two companies, the former doesn’t even have a prototype and the latter has a working product. ![]() There have been two ICOs in recent months for Filecoin and Storj that plan to do something similar to Resilio but on the blockchain. To close, I am going to tie back to my recent Blockchain articles. The pricing model is freemium, the free version is great for basic stuff like I was doing with my son, but doesn’t have granular control over permissions. All the Resilio products use the same engine and changing from one version to another is just a matter of popping in a new license. I can see this being a great disaster recovery tool by shadowing critical systems to remote locations. I’m not going to review it here, but briefly, this is machine to machine communication, think along the lines of server syncing and device replication. When I spoke to COO and co-founder Ilan Shamir about tweaking the UI more, he said that it was something they were working on, and I will say, it has improved a lot since I first started using it last year.Īn enterprise companion product to Sync is Resilio Connect. Simple things are pretty easy to do, like what I set up with my son, but when I started having my NAS, laptop, desktop and phone setup and just moving particular files around, it got a bit confusing. The UI for Sync is quite sparse for the application, maybe a bit too sparse. I also installed Sync on my phone recently, this was handy because I film a lot of videos and it made it really simple to just back them up to my NAS without having to jump through a lot of hoops and free up space on my phone. Security for our files and information is a big deal and it was so clearly illustrated recently in the Equifax hack. Sync is essentially a mesh network arrangement at the end of the day that includes AES-128 encryption. What you can do however is work on the file one at a time and all the changes will update to everyone that is sharing the directory with the file in it. We can’t work on a document at the same time, it’s not meant to be collaborative like Google Drive, but if we happen to do it, Sync will detect the mismatch and move the overwritten file to an archive directory so it isn’t lost. In this case we have kind of a hub and spoke configuration with bi-directional syncing. When we want to pass software builds around to each other or share private documents, I do the same thing and drop it in the folder on my NAS. I also have a small software company with a distributed group of developers. That’s a really simple, but handy use case. Whenever he turns his computer on, any changes are just automatically taken care of and it is crazy fast. Since we have a 17 hour time difference, it meant I didn’t have to leave my computer on, to sync up with him. This allowed me to move my son’s directory onto the NAS and just leave Sync running all the time. Turns out that Resilio had a version of Sync that ran on the Synology NAS. I use it for backing up all the computers at home and storing my photos and that kind of thing. I also have a Synology NAS unit at home, one of the best investments I’ve made. I was looking for a simple way to just have a directory on my computer that I could put things in and it would shadow to his laptop on the other side of the world, which is exactly what Resilio gave me, but let’s dig into the details some more. He also would get mail in that I’d have to scan and email to him, which he lost most of after I emailed. ![]() So I ran across Resilio because my son moved to Australia last year and he couldn’t take a lot of stuff and forgot a lot of his CD’s and Anime DVD’s, so he’d ask me to rip them for him, which I’d do, then put on my server and then he’d download. These offerings use the torrent technology they’d developed to move into a pure peer-to-peer technology for users and businesses to be able to share files without having to go to the cloud. to focus on the Sync and Connect (enterprise) products. The company was spun out of Bittorrent Inc. That said however, I think I have a new favorite and that is the “Sync” (not to be confused with the aforementioned Sync) from Resilio. Of all those, I found Sync to be the easiest to use and most flexible and is the only one I continue to personally use. Cloud based file storage has been popular for some years now with services like Box, Dropbox and Sync, then hybrid cloud/onprem solutions like Egnyte.
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