Release Candidate

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Today we released build 109, reaching the release candidate milestone. In the past month, we focused primarily on stress testing. For example, I can now download my Google Picasa web albums (5600 pictures, 245 web albums) completely to my other PC overnight without glitch. I can also upload big folders to Amazon S3 as well. I can setup incremental backup of my documents to Google Docs. It is becoming more and more usable.

This is what the Cloud Desktop needs to be. The bridge between the Cloud and the Desktop needs to be reliable. It is a goal that may not be easily achieved, we will need to continue to push the limit. There is always version 3.0.

The most recent Google Docs service glitch also proved that if we can solve the backup problem (such as Google Docs has a local cache copy or an Amazon S3 backup), the service will be more usable. If there is a backup copy into Amazon S3 for Google Docs, there won't be a concern of business continuity when the Google Docs becomes part of the company document infrastructure. The strength of multiple service providers combined can be much bigger than a single one.

Gladinet as an open platform, lays a foundation to support multiple service providers. It takes time for the platform to mature. Reaching release candidate milestone is a good step forward.

Comments

Dan Hedley said…
Downloaded and installed. It feels a lot more solid and quite a bit snappier. The interface is getting there too, although I'd like to see more consistent "Windows-like" behaviour.

Very nice. Keep up the good work!
May 6, 2009 at 3:13 AM
jerryhuang said…
Thanks. will keep improving. We will change some of the interface from AJAX back to Windows. Initially the design goal was to make it easily portable to other platform(including a pure web browser) and Javascript was a good fit. However, Windows native UI still has advantage in the native theme support and speed.
May 6, 2009 at 11:34 AM
G. said…
It is perfect!
The only thing I miss is the inability to disable the Windows Explorer Side Pane. I find it very annoying.
May 6, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Anonymous said…
is also possible to use GMail like drive?
May 7, 2009 at 6:39 AM
CentreStack said…
We are working on improving the side pane using the standard Windows Explorer integration. Will be better soon.

We would add the Gmail drive like feature to a list of feature requests after Box.Net integration, Webdav integration and etc.
May 7, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Gustavo Walendowsky said…
I cant download a CNET!
May 13, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Gang said…
Please retry later. The links should be good. If you still have problem downloading, please contact us at support@gladinet.com.
May 13, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Scoroncocolo said…
Jerry, Do you plan to add Synclpicity support any time soon?
June 14, 2009 at 1:07 PM
jerryhuang said…
We will take a look. Currently our plan is to release a Gladinet C# SDK. It will be easy to integrate more and more later on.
June 14, 2009 at 9:34 PM
birth control lies said…
MORE importantly does it have a featured analogous to FXP?
July 23, 2009 at 1:57 PM
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