Jungle Disk Reseller Edition
We’ve been posting quite a few product announcements on the blog recently. First Jungle Disk Desktop 2.0, then the Workgroup Edition, and now we’ve got one more before we lock the doors and put the finishing touches on Jungle Disk 2.0. We get requests on a regular basis from businesses that want to offer managed online backup services to their customers using the Jungle Disk software and Amazon S3 service. We’re pleased to announce that we’ll soon be offering a Reseller Edition of Jungle Disk to help meet this need.
The Reseller Edition is based on the Workgroup Edition and has many of the same features including sub-accounts, access controls, and usage reporting. The main difference is that the client software will not be Jungle Disk or Amazon-branded. Our reseller partners will be free to sell the service to their customers under their own brand or bundled with other IT services. The Reseller Edition will be available as part of two programs. The White Label program will include a generic-branded client with no Jungle Disk or partner-specific branding in the software. This program will be completely turn-key and have a low startup cost. The second option is the Private Label program, which includes a custom build of the software with your branding and logos. The Private Label program is targeted at larger resellers who want full integration of their own brand in the software.
Using the Reseller Edition is simple and secure. The reseller partner provides a single Amazon S3 account that will be used to store all their customer’s data. The Jungle Disk technology provides a secure way to isolate customer’s data from each other and doesn’t require the S3 account credentials on customer machines. Our account management site allows the reseller to create and manage customer accounts and obtain daily reports on usage by customer or groups of customers.
Pricing for the Reseller Edition is simple - the reseller partner pays the base Amazon S3 usage fees ($0.15/gb) and a Jungle Disk license fee of $2/user/month, and they are then free to bill their customers however they choose - based on usage, flat rate, or integrated as part of a complete managed services package. We don’t mark up the Amazon pricing and we don’t restrict how partners bill their customers. Compared to other online backup reseller offerings that are $1.50/gb or more, we think companies will see a significant savings with Amazon S3 and Jungle Disk.
We’re starting an interest list from companies that are considering reselling Jungle Disk. If you want to be notified when more information is available and when we start beta testing for the program, please sign up here.
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Adam said,
April 17, 2008 @ 11:07 am
Great news to start the day! Thanks JD! Can’t wait to get started offering this great product to my customers!
Johan Forngren said,
April 17, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
Cheers! (:
Will it be possible to set a quota for clients?
Jungle Dave said,
April 17, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
Hard quotas will likely not be in the initial feature set, but we will continue to add more options like that over time. Some form of soft quotas may be supported.
Jack James said,
April 18, 2008 @ 6:11 am
This is very exciting stuff. Of the top of my head I can think of some very interesting prospects for this within my industry. But how much will we be able to adapt this to our requirements. For example, I would love to be able to generate a web page for each client that provides a report with (for example) links to QuickTime movies they have stored in their account. Obviously I wouldn’t expect you to build this functionality into what you provide, but the point I’m making is, would it be possible for me to do things like this given the interface you’ll be providing?
Jungle Dave said,
April 18, 2008 @ 8:35 am
@Jack - The great thing about how the product works is that all the data is stored under your (the reseller’s) S3 account, so you can build your own functionality on top using the standard S3 APIs. We’ll also be providing source code to go along with JD2, just like we did with JD1, that demonstrates how encryption and key encoding is done.
Jack James said,
April 19, 2008 @ 4:19 am
Ok that sounds fantastic. It looks like I need to brush up on the S3 API…
Jack James said,
April 19, 2008 @ 5:17 am
Perhaps this is not the best place to ask this, but one of the few concerns I have about this, is if I offer this as a long-term solution to my clients, how will I be able to guarantee that their data will be safe in the event that my company goes bust? I guess what I’m asking is, will there be some process for migrating all of my clients’ data to separate (JD-based or otherwise) amazon accounts somehow (preferably without their intervention) if the worst happens? (sorry for all the questions, but I honestly think this could be a fantastic move for our company and want to know what the constraints will be)
Jungle Dave said,
April 19, 2008 @ 7:53 am
The data will be stored under your S3 account, so if you went under overnight, they would lose access. However, should you decide to shut down the service in an orderly fashion you simply allow your clients to set up their own S3 accounts, transfer the data there, and let them switch to the standard Jungle Disk client.
Marc Boschma said,
April 21, 2008 @ 8:23 pm
While it would be lovely to have an Amazon presence in Australia (or at least at a low enough latency from here) is it possible to configure the client to address either an S3 compliant server, or even a caching proxy to improve performance?
The alternative of course would be to allow for an extension API to allow such a new back end - especially if the caching proxy wouldn’t be of help(?).
Certainly got the mind racing with possibilities for my clients.
Larry Rodis said,
April 24, 2008 @ 11:34 pm
With the reseller/workgroup edition will it be service based instead of being a logon startup process?
Also will you provide e-mail notification and or event log notification of the individual backups?
Jungle Dave said,
April 25, 2008 @ 6:54 am
@Lary - not in the first release, but we are planning on offering both of those down the road.
Larry Rodis said,
April 25, 2008 @ 8:31 pm
I can live with the logon requirement for some clients but I need somw way to automatically monitor status of the backups.
Alex said,
April 28, 2008 @ 8:20 pm
Can you please elaborate on the pricing models being considered for white label vs private label? Thank you in advance. Eagerly awaiting beta.
Jungle Dave said,
April 28, 2008 @ 8:43 pm
We haven’t finalized the pricing for the two, however private label will be higher priced due to the customization effort required for each partner. The pricing will be per-partner however, not per-user, so for large partners the overall cost will be minimal.
Ian Page said,
May 16, 2008 @ 5:17 pm
Hi Jungle Dave,
I really can’t wait for this software, could I ask how are you going to work the licensing of the client you say $2 per month which I don’t have a problem but I don’t see what’s to stop me downloading once and install multi times..
Could I also ask would I be able to pre-load in the client ‘Your Access Key ID:’ and ‘Your Secret Access Key:’ and maybe any support email address ? This would allow me to allow my customer to download and install without me having to attend site.
Could you guy also have a third option instead of white label and branded… Maybe you could have your software point to a URL and when you login the client it downloads the images / Access key and secret Key and support email addresses etc…. every about this configuration. Maybe you could have a configuration button on the Amazon site. and you use you amazon login to access.
It would be secure because it done via SSL etc..
cheers
Ian
douglas cohn said,
June 30, 2008 @ 7:15 pm
I also see this as a great option. I currently use Logmein Backup for some clients. The price is very inexpensive because it does not include the offsite storage capability.
A few questions. For clients that want to keep Logmein can I point Logmein to the network drive created by the Jungle Disk software?
I like the idea of a Private Labeled product but I would love to know what you refer to by Large Clients. IE is the cost of the private labeling that high to make it not fit everyone. I would be willing to pay a one time fee and even an additional fee for each upgrade if I did not meet the minimum just to have the private Labeled version. I say that because I believe it would give us the best chance to grow with it.
Is there ideas on how I can use this as a place to Vault my clients data that are currently using Tape Backup products? For example lets say I back up a client to disk and then the back gets written to tape. I then want to also vault it offsite but using Jungle Disk. Any possibility of Jungle disk writing plug ins for UltraBac, Backup Exec and/or other backup products.