The ability to easily share information and documents is becoming an essential component of a successful company. In this Mediacast, Forrester Research analyst, Stephanie Balaouras, reviews and discusses a number of different topics, including:

• What are the trends driving businesses toward file sharing and collaboration?
• What are the technical challenges created from these trends?
• What are the various approaches and offerings from different vendors?
• What are the critical selection criteria in choosing a solution?

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The majority of consumers share media files that are meant for viewing only; corporate users typically send and receive files for review, editing and collaboration. Business users engage in an iterative, real-time process, where a file typically travels many times over many routes; each route must be secure, transfers must be efficient, and the process must embed safeguards to avoid version conflict. FolderMaestro was developed to address these requirements, making it the industry’s first enterprise-grade business file sharing solution.

FolderMaestro File Collaboration is an enterprise level real-time distributed file synchronization and locking technology that ensures the same data exists on all participating servers regardless of where changes occur, and prevents users from accessing a file that is in use by a user on another network for version conflict control. File transfers on disparate networks are secure and encrypted via SSL. To assure efficient performance, only changed portions of a file are replicated.

“Internet-based file sharing is a business imperative; the security vulnerabilities and inefficiencies of consumer-based technologies are unacceptable in business environments,” said

Jimmy Tam, FolderMaestro General Manager. “Historically, sharing files among every project team member was done through email attachments, uploading documents to an FTP site for retrieval, using a document management solution as a centralized data repository, and more recently, through document sharing services offered on the Internet that were developed for consumer use. FolderMaestro provides ‘corporate-grade’ file sharing, whereby business users — lawyers, engineers, designers, decentralized business units — can share files securely, without running into version conflicts. Additionally, sharing large files over a slow connection is no longer an issue.”

Visit www.foldermaestro.com for information on pricing and availability.

About FolderMaestro

FolderMaestro was founded by executives and engineers with a combined 30 years of experience in developing enterprise file synchronization and replication solutions for corporate customers world-wide. FolderMaestro provides easy-to-use, secure, enterprise file sharing and file collaboration solutions.