Skylable releases new versions of its Open Source storage and Dropbox alternative | Linux Today

Skylable releases new versions of its Open Source storage and Dropbox alternative

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 26, 2016

Skylable announced availability of SX 2.2, its Open Source flagship solution for building data clouds and a new project – SXScout, which joins the SXDrive family of file sync&share; applications.

According to Skylable’s blog post, the new release of SX “provides a significant performance boost by improving calculation, index usage and maintaining cache of frequently computed values, as well as performing background propagation of all replicas above 1 by default.” Some performance improvements were also made in SXFS, which is a distributed filesystem based on FUSE and backed by SX.

Additionally, Skylable announced a new project – SXScout. The company has been developing its file sync&share; application line – SXDrive, for quite a while now. SXDrive is available for all popular platforms, including mobile ones, and provides Dropbox-like functionality on premise, keeping all data in the SX storage, and making use of its features, such as deduplication or client-side encryption. With SXScout one can access the remote data without the need to synchronize it to local disk.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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