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I'm trying to figure out a better solution for creative workflow management, and BT Sync was on my list before. From my (enterprise) perspective, this is how it
by danudey 12y ago
I'm trying to figure out a better solution for creative workflow management, and BT Sync was on my list before. From my (enterprise) perspective, this is how it seems to be set up:
- I get to host, configure, manage, monitor, and script my own infrastructure
- I don't get any user management or centralized auth
- Users have to create identities manually and then get people to share folders to them
But also!
- I still have to pay for the features I want, yearly, per-user
On top of that, there seems to be a lot of marketing material telling me the high-level overview, and lots of documentation telling me the low-level interface, but I'm not getting the whole picture. I'm sold on the idea, but not the implementation. There's nothing here that tells me, as a devops/IT guy, what this will do for my infrastructure or my users.
That said, there are a lot of features here that I love. Turning off 'sync all' and having placeholder files is great for a company which currently has an 80 GB SVN repository of all of our creative assets.
There's also no indication of whether I can revoke files from a user (and not just their access to future updates). When an employee/contractor leaves, I want them to stop having any of our files. Granted, they could just make copies before they get disconnected, but it's still a nice-to-have.
So, if there's any way to handle these issues (mostly authenticating users against an LDAP backend, in my case), I'm sold, sign me up. Otherwise, I have to go somewhere else (e.g. AeroFS, which can do this).