Jungle Disk Blog

We’re excited to announce the availability of a free Jungle Disk App that allows Desktop Edition and Workgroup Edition users to access and manage their data stored with Jungle Disk via iPhone®, iPod Touch® and iPad™.    The app lets you browse photos, view files, and play music or videos stored on your Jungle Disk account from your mobile device.  You can even upload photos and videos directly to your Jungle Disk account for additional protection.  The Jungle Disk App is available for immediate download at the App Store.  For more information, visit the Jungle Disk App page.

Already know what you’re going to access while on the go?  Want to win a free iPad?

Then participate in the “Jungle Disk Dash!” Sweepstakes for your chance to win one of two brand new iPads.  Simply post a “tweet” on Twitter® (www.twitter.com)  to answer the question, “What do you want to access anywhere?” and include the @jungledisk handle and #jungledisk hashtag so we can track your entries.  The first iPad drawing will occur Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 and the second drawing on Friday, April 9th, 2010.

Jungle Disk iPad Giveaway Rules Summary

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void outside the 50 U.S. (including D.C.) and where prohibited. Open to legal residents of the 50 U.S. (including D.C.) who are at least the age of majority at time of entry. Sweepstakes begins 12:00:01 AM ET on 3/30/10 and ends 11:59:59 PM ET on 4/8/10. To enter, visit http://blog.jungledisk.com and follow the on-screen instructions to enter the promotion by posting a “tweet” on Twitter with your answer to the question indicated.  Two prizes: Two winners will each receive one 16GB Wi-Fi iPad. ARV of each prize: $499.00. Odds of winning a prize depend on the total number of qualified entries received.  For complete Official Rules and eligibility details, visit www.jungledisk.com/jddterms. Sponsor: Jungle Disk, LLC., 5000 Walzem Road, San Antonio, Texas, 78218.

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We’re very excited to announce that the Jungle Disk Reseller Server Edition is now available for all of our reseller partners!

Powered by the Jungle Disk Server Edition engine, resellers now have the ability to meet the growing needs of their customers by being able to offer reliable and secure online backups for multiple servers with the added flexibility to remotely manage them through a single Remote Management Console.

Here is a summary of what you can expect to be able to offer your customers with the Reseller Server Edition:

• Secure online backup for Windows and Linux Servers
• No file size or backup limits
• AES-256 encryption
• Advanced compression and de-duplication features
• Easy remote management on a Mac, Windows, or Linux-based computer

To learn more about the Jungle Disk Reseller Program, please visit http://www.jungledisk.com/reseller_program/overview and learn how you can start reselling white label versions of the Jungle Disk software.

We made 3.05 available on this site earlier this month, introducing one-way sync, improved backup vault cleanup, and a number of additional improvements. After the release, we continued to get feedback (some from customers already running 3.05) that pointed to a few more items needing our attention.

We don’t like subjecting our customers to overly-frequent version changes, but in this case we felt it best to knock out a few more improvements and get them into the hands of our users. So today, we’re releasing Version 3.06 for each of our product editions. In it, you’ll find even better backup vault cleanup performance, optimized uploading of backup vault database files, and a number of other improvements.

For a complete list of changes, please review our release notes. You can download the new version of your edition from our Download Center.

For the Mac and Windows customers who prefer upgrading with the automatic update feature, we anticipate switching this on for 3.06 later this week (you can select “Check for Updates” from Jungle Disk’s Help Menu to see if the new version is available).

Today we’re releasing Version 3.05 for all editions of Jungle Disk. A big “thank you” goes out to all of our customers who shared their experiences in our Support Forums and ticket system. Thanks to your feedback, we’ve made a number of performance and usability enhancements, and even added a few new goodies that didn’t appear in 3.04.

One notable enhancement is the addition of a “One Way” option to our Sync capabilities. With this feature, you can sync files from your network drive to your local folder (or vice-versa), without a requirement that the synchronization happens in the opposite direction. This feature is useful when you know the master copy of a document always exists in once place or the other, and you want to overwrite copies with the master version (regardless of whether the copies changed or not). Be sure to read the release notes on this feature, so you can set it up with exactly the behavior you want.

Other enhancements include improved cleanup of deleted data in Backup Vaults, and support for Growl and Snarl messages in Windows (and similar notifications in Linux). Linux customers will be happy to find that we restored the command-line utility that existed in versions prior to 3.0.

For a complete list of changes, please review our release notes.

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

Last fall, we introduced the Jungle Disk Server Edition with tremendous reception and many requests to make it available for resellers.   Well, we’re happy to say that day is near!  But, before we launch, we’d like to invite our reseller community to participate in a public beta test for the Reseller Server Edition.

The product feature set is the same as Jungle Disk Server Edition, but white-label branded for the Reseller community.  The beta will include a 30-day free subscription with 10GB storage included.  Normal cloud storage fees still apply after the first 10 GB and the account will convert to paying after the 30-day evaluation period, unless canceled.

Specific areas we are looking for feedback on:

• Process of generating a license key
• Ease of creating a new license
• Installation and activation with that license
• General product evaluation

Getting Started is Easy!

Simply visit the Jungle Disk Reseller Support forum to get started.  Instructions for the beta, a reviewer’s guide, and beta feedback areas can be found at:  http://support.jungledisk.com/forums/129660-jungle-disk-reseller-server-edition-beta

Note: If you are a reseller and you do not see the Reseller Community Links under “Forums” on the right hand side of the support page, simply submit a support ticket to request access.

Thanks in advance for your help evaluating this product for our reseller community.  Your feedback is very important to us and we appreciate your efforts in making this the best product possible.

Thanks,

The Jungle Disk Team