Jungle Disk Online Backup to Launch Cloud Data Backup Server Edition for the SMB Market

November 10, 2009

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Online backup and storage provider Jungle Disk is rolling out their biggest launch ever.

Jungle Disk announces Jungle Disk Server Edition, a brand new addition to their product line.  This is Jungle Disk’s very first server offering. It promises to provide advanced server backup capabilities at a dramatically lower price than what’s currently out there.  Server Edition is available for Linux and Windows, and like its existing products, Server Edition users can choose whether they’d like to store their files with Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files.

Jungle Disk also soon be announcing “the next major release of Jungle Disk Desktop Edition 3.0 and Workgroup Edition 3.0, with a greatly enhanced platform that cuts across the entire product line.  Enhancements within the 3.0 release include new sync functionality that works with the cloud-based network drive to make users’ data consistently available anytime, anywhere.  Jungle Disk 3.0 also offers an improved Automatic Backup feature with block-level de-duplication and no file size or backup size limits”.

Jungle Disk says, “We are doing everything we can to make our product the fastest, most efficient and most trusted online storage provider”.

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By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
09 Nov 2009 | SearchDataBackup.com

Rackspace’s Jungle Disk preps cloud data backup Server Edition

Jungle Disk is preparing to enter the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) - cloud backup market this month with general availability of its Server Edition as the Rackspace Hosting subsidiary continues to move up in scale.

Server Edition will join Jungle Disk’s previous Desktop and Workgroup Editions. Jungle Disk, founded in 1998, staked its claim to fame by writing software that provided a GUI interface into Amazon’s S3 cloud data storage as an alternative to the service’s native APIs. After Rackspace acquired Jungle Disk in October 2008, it added support in its Desktop and Workgroup Editions for the Rackspace Cloud hosting service back end.

“We initially started with a focus on consumer online storage and backup, but last year we released our first Workgroup Edition for business desktops,” Jungle Disk president Dave Wright said. Server Edition is the next step of that scale-up strategy.

Server Edition, first released to public beta in early October, will support Windows, Mac and Linux server cloud data backup, remote management, and block-level data deduplication. Only new blocks will be sent to either …

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