Nomadesk 4.0 Reviewed By PC Magazine
June 9, 2010 by Filip Tack · Leave a Comment
Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine’s lead analyst for software and Web applications reviewed the latest Nomadesk release.
Here are but a few of his “discoveries”:
“Nomadesk goes beyond other syncing and file-sharing services, creating a complete virtual disk… If you just want a virtual drive synched to your PCs and the cloud, Nomadesk is worth a look.”
“A big green button on the Nomadesk webpage offers live support with an engineer in a chat window. There’s also e-mail and phone support (CET office hours only). For a Web service, these avenues are quite generous. Indeed, I got a tech rep in my chat box in seconds.”
“If the idea of anywhere access to your digital assets appeals to you, Nomadesk is worth checking out. After all, spending $50 per year to sync a full hard drive’s worth of data is a much better deal than the Syncplicity’s $15 a month for 50GB. It’s also cheaper than PC Mag Editors’ Choice Dropbox, which costs $100 a year for 50GB.”
WebWorkerDaily Covers Nomadesk Outlook Integration
April 15, 2010 by Filip Tack · Leave a Comment
Simon Mackie from GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily has tested our latest product enhancement to Nomadesk for Windows that
integrates FileLink with Outlook 2007 and 2010. From now on Nomadesk users are able to email large files such as photos, graphics, videos and presentations through a password-protected link of a file that resides in a Nomadesk fileserver. When emailing an attachment, and using Microsoft Outlook, you will be given the option to send a FileLink vs. the actual file.
You can read all about it here:
Web Worker Daily Article
December 30, 2009 by Jacques De Bruyne · Leave a Comment
Synchronize Files Online With Nomadesk
Thursday Bram from the GigaOM network posted an article about the broad offerings of Nomadesk and touches on the features that make it especially attractive to digital nomads.
If you’re on the go, there are several options for managing and synchronizing your files, but Nomadesk manages to stand out from the crowd with several handy features. The service uses a desktop application to manage files (available in both Windows and Mac flavors), although an online dashboard is also available.
Click here for the entire article.
TechCrunch: Nomadesk, Not Just Another File Sharing Service
December 21, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Robin Wauters from TechCrunch posted this article yesterday about some of the things that separates Nomadesk from the competition. Announcing the new feature of FolderLink, Wauters makes a case for the steady additions of features and business focus as a way Nomadesk is differentiating itself from the others.
For what it’s worth: Nomadesk really has an awesome desktop client (Windows and Mac) that goes far beyond most of what competitors have to offer, and the distribution part of the equation is slowly coming to fruition as well (the company recently signed a deal with Bell Canada for the company to use Nomadesk’s solution as a white-label service they can offer directly to their customers, and has similar agreements in place and in the pipeline).
But while the company has been consistently growing after its inception a couple of years ago, albeit slowly, the startup has received very little attention from tech press and industry pundits so far. I genuinely think that Nomadesk deserves more of it, as its service stacks up against most proponents in this space, particularly in the way you can control your virtual fileserver(s) from your mobile phone.
Maybe a new feature being launched today will raise some eyebrows: Nomadesk is today introducing a welcome feature that allows users to share an entire folder – regardless of its size – with anyone with an Internet connection and a browser. Simply use the desktop client to right-click any folder you’d like to share, and you can relay the link to whoever you would like to share it with, and they don’t need to have the software installed let alone be a registered Nomadesk user to access all the files in the folder.
ReadWriteWeb Article
December 18, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Nomadesk: Cloud-Based Backup Providers Doing Quite Well
ReadWriteWeb posted an article by Alex Williams about Telecom companies offering their customers cloud-based services. The Nomadesk/Bell Canada partnership was used as a prime example.
Telecommunications companies are partnering with services like Nomadesk to give customers the ability to do their own cloud-based online backups.
Nomadesk is a virtual hard drive on your desktop. It’s very simple. We downloaded the application, made some simple configurations and immediately had the ability to drag and drop files into the virtual hard drive that sits on the desktop.The hard drive is connected to the cloud and syncs when updates are made.
TechCrunch Breaks News On Bell Canada Partnership
MG Siegler from TechCrunch got the jump on everyone when he posted and article about the Bell Canada partnership with Nomadesk yesterday. The press release is scheduled for tomorrow but the cat is out of the bag.
The company has a deal with Bell Canada to give its SOHO and SMB customers easy access to Nomadesk’s cloud-storage offering. With it, Bell Canada customers will be able to share, synchronize, encrypt, backup, and store data on Nomadesk all for $15-a-month per file server. For this fee, an unlimited number of team members will be able to access the data through any computer, and more importantly for this deal, their phones.
Crossman: Nomadesk Keeps Data Accessible
October 28, 2009 by Jacques De Bruyne · Leave a Comment
Craig Crossman from Computer America posted an article over the weekend on the Citizen Times web site.
Technically, Nomadesk is a virtual fileserver. Normally when you drag a file or folder to your computer’s hard drive, that data is copied to it. With the Nomadesk hard drive icon, any information dragged to it is first encrypted and then copied out to the cloud via your Internet connection.
You use the Nomadesk hard drive as you would use any local hard drive, which makes using it about as simple as it gets. If you know how to use your computer’s hard drive, you know how to use Nomadesk.
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
Filip Tack on Computer America Radio Show
October 9, 2009 by Jacques De Bruyne · Leave a Comment
Nomadesk CEO and perpetual digital nomad, Filip Tack was a guest for Backup Thursdays on Computer America’s nationally syndicated on October 8th.
Hosted by Craig Crossman, Computer America is the longest running radio talk show about computers. People have learned they can trust Computer America to cover the world of personal computers, updating them on the important new products and services that will make their life in front of the keyboard better, and do it all with a sense of humor and a flair for entertainment.
Filip Tack was special guest expert on backing up your “mission critical” files using Nomadesk.
Novatel’s MiFi Router Gets Smarter, with Apps
October 5, 2009 by Jacques De Bruyne · Leave a Comment
PCMAG.COM reported partnerships between Novatel Wireless and several software companies, including Nomadesk, to provide imbedded applications for their MiFi 3G-to-WiFi router.
Novatel Wireless on Monday announced a plan to embed applications in the company’s MiFi portable 3G-to-WiFi router, which has its own Linux-based operating system. The first MiFi apps will let the device act as a shared network drive, negotiate VPNs and upload photos.
The MiFi’s first three application partners will be Eye-Fi, Nomadesk and Alcatel-Lucent, Novatel chief marketing officer Rob Hadley said. Nomadesk will offer an app that turns a MiFi with a memory card into a shared network drive for anyone accessing it, and also synchronizes the MiFi with Internet-based storage.
Read the entire article here.
Filip Tack on Computer Outlooks Radio Show
August 31, 2009 by Jacques De Bruyne · Leave a Comment
Nomadesk CEO Filip Tack was recently interviewed by John Iasiuolo for his Fox News Radio show, Computer Outlooks. Here’s what he had to say on his blog after the interview:
On Sunday August 30th Filip Tack – CEO of NomaDesk was our guest. Well I’m here to tell you what a great piece of software this product is. It is the easiest and listen to what I’m saying the MOST SECURE way to share, syncronize and backup your most critical files even when you are offline! Please take a minute and visit this web site.