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SpiderOak intros 'private enterprise-class' cloud storage

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BANGALORE, INDIA: SpiderOak, a cloud backup, sync and sharing service provider, announced the release of Blue, touted to be the 'world's first truly private enterprise-class cloud storage system'.

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The company introduced three new suites of SpiderOak Blue products:

SpiderOak: Blue - Designed for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs).

SpiderOak: Blue OpenLicense (OL) - Based on SpiderOak's current OpenLicense program, SpiderOak Blue OL features all the benefits of SpiderOak Blue while placing data ownership into the hands of end users.

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SpiderOak: Blue Plus - Is designed for enterprise. The Blue Virtual Appliance places all management control into an open-source virtual machine (VM) that runs on company infrastructure.

SpiderOak Blue offers 'zero-knowledge' privacy guarantees and online backup, syncing and sharing along with centralized management and provisioning of all company data.

"Today's companies struggle with the consumerization of their IT infrastructures," said Ethan Oberman, CEO of SpiderOak. "When employees use consumer-oriented tools for enterprise purposes, they run the risk of exposing company data to applications and cloud infrastructure that guarantees neither privacy nor confidentiality. Companies retain complete ownership and administration of all their data - knowing that SpiderOak employees can never view their company's data for any reason (even under subpoena)."

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SpiderOak Blue Features:

Bulk create and manage user accounts; download and edit via CSV

Corporate-level managed controls that can be pushed down to all individual clients

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Detailed statistical and trouble-shooting reports on user activity

Selectively enable or disable Web and mobile access to individual accounts or groups

MSI installers for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

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The ability to follow policy-set permissions in the Windows Registry or as a text file in Linux (through /etc) or Mac (through /Library)

Key escrow technology decouples passwords from encryption for Blue + accounts. Private master keys give company administrators full control over all company data.

User account integration with Microsoft Active Directory, OpenLDAP, and RedHat Directory Server. Directory group membership provides SpiderOak account entitlement.

Integrated password management via either LDAP bind or RADIUS (e.g. RSA SecurID)

Users on company-defined LDAP groups automatically visible inside SpiderOak's web-based management console.

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