It’s really exciting to look back at all of the great things we accomplished at Jungle Disk in 2009, however, we believe that 2010 is our opportunity to do even more great things! We wanted to outline just a couple of the areas that we’re looking to target over the next year.
Collaboration
We love that you trust Jungle Disk to backup and store your valuable files, but now we want to empower you to do more by offering cool new features like collaboration tools and public file sharing. At the end of the day, Jungle Disk is going to be the complete solution for any individual, team or company looking to do just about anything with their data. Store it? Archive it? Back it up? Version it? Share it? Sync it? Collaborate with it? Access it through the web? Yes, Jungle Disk does that.
Usability
We’re going to make a big push to improve product usability across the board. That means a rework of our existing offering and also putting more thought into usability as we roll out new features. Certainly, our efforts to improve usability applies not only to the software, but the Jungle Disk website as well.
What else?
Rest assured that we have a lot of awesome things to roll out over 2010! In addition to a host of new features and improvements for all of Jungle Disk’s products and services, you’ll want to keep coming back to find out more about how we’re taking your ability to store, sync, access and share your data to the max!
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Arni Gunnar Ragnarsson said,
February 12, 2010 @ 11:32 am
WHS integration ?
Shannon Hicks said,
February 12, 2010 @ 11:38 am
I’d love to see JungleDisk compete with Dropbox. Right now I run both, wouldn’t mind running just one.
Allen said,
February 12, 2010 @ 11:58 am
+1 on the DropBox thing. Right now syncing on DropBox is faster than JD and other products out there by far.
Scott Gibson said,
February 12, 2010 @ 12:02 pm
@Arni At this point, we have determined that we will not be continuing development on the WHS product. Certainly our WHS users can continue to use the existing beta version or leverage one of the other Jungle Disk products to backup their WHS system.
Shaun said,
February 12, 2010 @ 12:05 pm
Please, PLEASE: Usability has to mean UI. The UI is probably the one thing that stops me from recommending JD to friends and family.
I also want to say that I’m really looking forward to archiving/directional syncing.
Mike said,
February 12, 2010 @ 12:17 pm
Nice to see that new features are being added, especially sharing content with users. After trying several of the other products on the market, 6 months ago I became a very happy JD user, and haven’t looked back. Having the ability to collaborate and share (even if only read-only) my content would mean I could stop using over services such as Flickr.
Keep up the good work guys!
Randy said,
February 12, 2010 @ 12:46 pm
Any word on a Netgear ReadyNAS add-on? The integrated online backup feature built-in to the ReadyNAS products is just awesome, but totally overpriced currently… I know JD developers have mentioned in the past & I’m sure that if you were able to introduce such an add-on, it’d be a HUGE hit with ReadyNAS users/partners…
James said,
February 12, 2010 @ 12:46 pm
I’m very unhappy that WHS is being discontinued.
Scott said,
February 12, 2010 @ 1:02 pm
How about development of addons for other NAS boxes such as Readynas?
Scott said,
February 12, 2010 @ 1:05 pm
Also, please, please maintain quality and stability as your #1 priority. New features are nice, but please don’t lose sight of your origin and core business.
Ian Cummings said,
February 12, 2010 @ 2:04 pm
Whatever you do, please don’t take your eye off the reliability ball.
Jungledisk is nothing if it isn’t rock solid. We had a few wobbles with the new sync feature 9which I have stopped using) recently and I would rather wait another 6 months than have a feature which acts unexpectedly.
Having said that, the basic backup still works like a charm and I will look forward to whatever you do!
Scott Gibson said,
February 12, 2010 @ 2:35 pm
@Scott Agreed. We are indeed committed to ensuring that existing functionality it tightened up and new features are high quality roll-outs.
Regarding NAS, we have a few devices that we have done some testing on (ReadyNAS, Drobo, QNAP, etc.). While we haven’t officially decided our plans regarding NAS support, for the time being we would recommend leveraging an existing JD product to backup those devices.
Chris Emery said,
February 12, 2010 @ 3:04 pm
So once again you’re spending a year ignoring the demand for mobile phone clients ? Bad move guys. Seriously. Dropbox and Sugarsync are well ahead of you now
Scott Gibson said,
February 12, 2010 @ 3:09 pm
@Chris ohhh….I think you’re going to be very happy in the very near future.
We can’t share ALL of the great new things all at once!
RF said,
February 12, 2010 @ 5:47 pm
As much as I used to lament the lack of support for WHS, I must say that I have come to terms with it. I installed the desktop version on my WHS and have never looked back. You can’t use the WHS console to monitor it but I have set up an RSS feed of the backup reports so I can easily see if anything goes wrong.
Marco said,
February 12, 2010 @ 6:27 pm
I know it’s a very niche request, but it would give you a serious edge over Dropbox if you can market it…
Could you please plan to start syncing (in addition to backing up) extended attributes for Mac files?
Tom said,
February 14, 2010 @ 9:32 am
How about providing sources for backup disk restore from S3 again? I use your Server backup product but I’m looking for an alternative now because I do not want to depend on any service for access to my data.
John said,
February 14, 2010 @ 6:12 pm
At the moment DropBox are giving you a good kicking.
Their software is much easier to use.
You should have the edge though on them, once you get past 2GB, the S3 pricing is much much cheaper.
You also need to worry about Google. I just bought 20GB of storage for $5 a year. Whilst I still use JungleDisk to backup photos I am thinking of converting to Picasa for sheer ease of use.
I still haven’t figured how to get my photos to sync across my Windows machine and the Mac using JungleDisk. The windows machine wants to create a /machine/users/john/photos folder.
This stuff should be easy and foolproof – it isn’t.
Tim B said,
February 14, 2010 @ 7:11 pm
Have been and continue to wait for ReadyNAS support however Scott’s comment on 2/12 is a bit ominous. I love JD because it is a single purpose tool and does that very well please do not turn it into a swiss army knife where too many trade offs are made.
Scott Gibson said,
February 14, 2010 @ 9:54 pm
@Tom We are indeed planning to have a service for seeding and restoring data. Stay tuned to the blog for updates on that topic.
Sean said,
February 15, 2010 @ 3:45 am
Scott, please don’t add bloat to JD. One of the reasons I like it is because it’s low on resource usage.
Nigel said,
February 15, 2010 @ 10:48 am
I am still really unhappy that command line support has been removed from v3.x.
Please could it be put back into the product,, can’t use JD because of that with my setup. If v3.x is an improvement why have features been removed?
archcommus said,
February 16, 2010 @ 1:39 am
Been a happy Jungle Disk user for 2 1/2 years now, once it moved to a 64-bit service, it really became the perfect online backup solution for me. Excited to see growth and a great vision for the product, but as others have stated, please be sure to maintain the high quality the software currently enjoys, and if it does end up being a sort of jack of all trades, do not let it become a master of none. Avoid bloat and stick to a clean UI with reliable features and you should continue to enjoy success.
Nik said,
February 17, 2010 @ 8:05 pm
I set my parents up with JD nearly three years ago, since it was the only real game in town for online backup. Since then, Mozy, Carbonite, SugarSync, Dropbox, Backblaze, etc. have come into the sync/share/backup realm. JungleDisk has some nice capabilities, but ultimately falls short because, if for no other reason, it’s more expensive, due largely to the subscription fee and the data transfer fees.
Backups has gone to all-you-can-eat for $5/month. Thanks to JD’s compression and AWESOME de-duplication, a gigabyte in JD is very different from a GB in another service. Still, 50 gigs of backup comes to $7.50 for storage plus $2/month, which puts it at right about DOUBLE the price of a Mozy/Carbonite/Backblaze/CrashPlan/need-I-go-on?
On the sync/store side, Dropbox/SugarSync/etc. have figured that 50 gigs is worth $10/month. In JD, we have our $7.50 for storage plus $3/month, which puts you a whopping half dollar more expensive. For that matter, it even ends up being roughly the same price as Apple’s over-priced Mobile Me iDisk service — which comes along with all the other .me goodies.
Neither of these include file transfer fees, which are modest, but do add up over time.
As long as JD tries to do all of these things, it needs to offer either something much better than the others (faster backups through de-duplication is DEFINITELY one such feature — online backups are sllllllooooowwwwww), it has to come along with a better $/gig ratio if a person takes advantage of all its features.
Sure, Amazon S3 is a pass-along, but maybe Cloud Files can add some economies of scale. Even if you make it a higher priced service but do, say, $250/year for all you can eat data for backup, sync, storage and sharing would be a real solid proposition.
just an user said,
March 2, 2010 @ 6:09 pm
I do like jungledisk but would like not to use S3 or rackspace but a server I do own in a colocation via ftp or what ever protocol is used. Would give me the best privacy and data protection with the best software being around.
John said,
March 10, 2010 @ 8:59 pm
I just upgraded to JD 3.04 and wow, what a horrible icon. Why in gods name did you guys change it? I don’t really care about the application icon but now I have this horrible red and black swoosh thing on my desktop instead of a nice icon of a disk drive. I’m guessing some MBA idiot made you do it, but it really, really, really sucks.
Jason said,
March 12, 2010 @ 6:33 pm
Very disappointing that WHS is being killed after repeated posts over the previous year that a new product was in the works.
Looks like I will be ending my multi-year, multi-server business with Jungle Disk.
Stefan said,
March 29, 2010 @ 4:35 am
I’ve been using JD to backup my WHS for over 2 years now without any problems. I’m disappointed that the integrated WHS solution has been discontinued. If I do as @RF did above and switch to the desktop version, will it cause all of my data, over 110GB worth, to be sent back up to S3 again or will it be able to detect that the data is already backed up? I don’t want to incur the cost of network and S3 charges again for backing up the same data. If so, I’ll probably also go look at other online solutions.