Jungle Disk Blog

I’d like to wish a happy holiday season and a bountiful New Year to all our Jungle Disk customers and partners. I hope your season has been filled with an abundance of friends, family, and food!

It’s been more than a year now since the Rackspace acquisition of Jungle Disk, and I’m extremely proud of the progress that we’ve made since then. The team has more than tripled in size and continues to expand. We’ve released several major product updates and two entirely new products, and Jungle Disk is now available through Rackspace Email & Apps to the entire range of Rackspace customers. My role has changed over the past year as well as I’ve transferred responsibility for engineering and business operations to others at Jungle Disk and started exploring the other divisions of Rackspace.

Working with the Rackspace Cloud group, I’ve gained exposure to some of the unique challenges faced by large scale cloud operators like Rackspace, challenges that will be encountered by many hosting providers and large enterprises going forward as more and more IT services move to cloud architectures. The technologist in me is excited about the groundbreaking technology required to solve these challenges, while the entrepreneur in me sees a big opportunity to make both public and private clouds faster, more reliable, and easier to manage.  And so it is that I leave Jungle Disk in capable hands to pursue my next venture.

I’m grateful for the amazing support of Jungle Disk’s customers over the years, and more than anything I’m proud of the community that has been built around the software. The future of Jungle Disk is bright and you’ll be hearing more about those plans soon. As for me, I am and will always remain @jungledave.

We have exciting news and savings for our Amazon S3 customers that we’d like to pass along.  On Dec 8, Amazon Web Services announced that Inbound Data Transfer will be free of charge until June 30^th, 2010 to make it easier for customers to get their data in to AWS.  All other applicable charges will still apply, but you will no longer have to pay the $0.10 per GB upload data transfer fee.

Additionally, Amazon S3 EU (Ireland) storage pricing has been reduced 15% to $0.15 per GB.  They are also reducing Request prices from $0.012 to $0.010 per 10,000 GET requests or 1,000 PUT requests.

These pricing changes will be reflected in your next statement.  Enjoy this early holiday gift from AWS!

As 2009 winds to a close, we’re happy to release another set of improvements and bug fixes to all four Jungle Disk Editions. Many thanks go to our excellent user base for sharing their experiences and suggestions with us.

The complete set of changes can be found in the release notes, and we’ve turned on automatic updates for Mac and Windows users. Linux users (and those who prefer to update manually) can visit our downloads page. Note that we didn’t release 3.03 for general availability, so most of you will upgrade from 3.02 to 3.04.

All of us at Jungle Disk want to wish all of you a warm and happy holiday season, and a joyous New Year. We look forward to meeting your cloud storage needs for many years to come!

Jungle Allan

Today we’re releasing Version 3.02 for all four editions of Jungle Disk.  This release contains a number of performance and usability enhancements, plus fixes for several issues reported by our users since 3.01 went out.

One notable enhancement is our new “Usage Information” screen for Backup Vaults (see the screenshot below).  Several of you have asked for additional details on what comprises your backup vaults, and we’re happy to oblige.  You can run this report on your own vaults by clicking the link at the bottom of the Backup Vault configuration page.

You can download the new version of your edition from our Download Center — we plan to enable automatic updates early next week. Once we do, Windows and Mac users can upgrade to the new version by selecting “Check for Updates” from Jungle Disk’s Help Menu.

Jungle Disk's Backup Vault Usage Screen