Egnyte

Egnyte is a company that provides Adaptive Enterprise File Services for businesses. The company differentiates itself from other cloud-based file-sharing services by being able to store files on a company’s existing data center infrastructure, as well as cloud storage. Egnyte integrates with numerous clouds, storage, devices and business applications to give customers control of where their data exists. That means companies can keep working with the hardware they have invested in.
The company fits in the Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) market and is expanding into File Management and Protection Markets. In July 2015, Gartner named Egnyte a Visionary in its annual Magic Quadrant for the EFSS market. Egnyte was the only company that advanced into a new quadrant.
Some of the company’s customers include: Cracker Barrel, Garda, H.D. Smith, IKEA, Red Bull, Tommy Hilfiger, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and PCL Constructors Inc.
Products and SolutionsOn January 20, 2015, the company launched its Adaptive Enterprise File Services, with the addition of Content Intelligence and Smart Reporting and Auditing services. Content Intelligence helps users understand how their files are being accessed and shared inside and outside of an organization and helps them adapt and optimize their content strategies and workflows. Smart Reporting & Auditing helps IT understand how information flows throughout the organization with reporting and analytics that empower IT to optimize infrastructure utilization and streamline operations.
Egnyte’s software runs on storage hardware from vendors that include Netgear, Synology and NetApp. The company has formed partnerships with a variety of cloud vendors, such as Amazon S3 and Google Cloud.
Egnyte has chosen a middle ground where companies can use a combination of solutions and vendors, and they act as the glue between all of them, offering the best place to put a file, while giving administrators a full view of everywhere it’s been. As files move back and forth between the different storage locations, and get used across mobile devices, it’s important for administrators to be able to follow that trail if need be.
In March 2015, the company unveiled its Egnyte for Google Apps solution that allows customers to move files between Google Drive and their own on-premises infrastructure. Google Apps administrators can set up the integration and then manage permissions (either from the Google Admin control or within Egnyte); they can assign permissions across users, groups, storage and collaboration. Users get the same folder structure and control paradigm and don’t need to wrangle multiple user experiences.

• Egnyte also unveiled a new suite of mobile apps in May 2015 for all platforms, including the Apple Watch, that enables enterprise users to access, manage and share online and offline data from both cloud and on-premises storage.