The Egnyte Cloud File Server is an easy-to-use solution for storing business files of any size or type online in secure, permission-based folders. These folders are designed to allow for a hierarchical structure, letting you nest them together in order to create folders that have smaller sub-groups, each containing its own individual level of permission-based security. Because folder access is permission governed, you have full control over who has read, write and delete privileges for every folder at every level for both individual users and groups.

When setting up accounts for employees and business partners, you decide what folders they can access by assigning appropriate folder permissions. For example, you can create a marketing department folder that is accessible only to the marketing team. Similarly, you can have a common folder that all employees of your company are allowed to access. And because Egnyte allows for two types of users - Power Users, which are typically your employees and Standard Users, which are typically your clients or partners - you can also have specific folders that your customers can access.

Control access to your files

The permissions scheme employed by Egnyte is easy to use but very powerful. Users can have Read Only, Read/Write or Read/Write/Delete permissions to the folders they are permitted to view, which in turn determines the actions they can perform on the files in that folder. For example, a user with Read Only access can view and download files, but they cannot edit, upload or delete files. You can also aggregate users to extend folder permissions at a group level

Securely access files from any computer or device

Egnyte is purpose-built to facilitate "on-the-go" collaboration with co-workers and clients. Both Power Users (typically employees) and Standard Users (typically clients) can access Egnyte using a standard Web browser or popular smartphone. Power Users also have the option to access their folders and files on Egnyte using a mapped drive from their computer for convenient file drag, drop and edit capabilities (Windows, Mac, and Linux compatible). Regardless of how you access Egnyte, however, folder permissions are always enforced. So, whether you use a Web browser, smartphone or a mapped drive to access Egnyte, the folders you can access will be based on the permissions you've been granted.

Flexible options to upload your files

You can upload files to Egnyte in a variety of way without any restrictions as to file type or size. Drag and drop files into the online folders using either the mapped drive (Power Users only) or the built-in multi-file upload tool (all users). For your very largest files of 500 MBs or larger, Egnyte provides a special no-maintenance FTP interface. We also offer Data Migration Services for customers with large initial data sets they wish to migrate into their Egnyte account.

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