Gladinet has launched Cloud Gateway v1.0 and Cloud Desktop v1.3, designed to meet the cloud computing needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
According to the Gladinet, the Cloud Desktop turns internet into a virtual PC while the Cloud Gateway is its file server. Built on the same open platform as Cloud Desktop, Cloud Gateway connects individual desktops to cloud storage through one access point.
The company said that the Cloud Gateway allows one server to support many individual desktops. The application allows SMBs to scale back their own data storage capacity while providing reliable, centralised administration and backup capability. It uses smart caching, making copies of files stored with cloud services accessible on local desktops eliminating the problem of lost data in the event of cloud service business closures.
Gladinet said that, once configured by an administrator, Cloud Gateway is available to every Cloud Desktop user in a company and requires no account information to be entered by individual users.
Jerry Huang, co-founder of Gladinet, said: Cloud Gateway acts as a liaison between Cloud Desktop and cloud storage. Before, if a company had 100 employees using Cloud Desktop, they needed 100 connections to Amazon S3, Google Docs or whatever services their employees were using. With the Gateway, that’s all changed. Now SMBs only need Cloud Gateway to connect to cloud services, regardless of how many different interfaces or accounts they may have. The Gateway acts as a file server to the Desktops, which simply connect to it over their LAN.
