SMEStorage releases iSMEStorage the first Cloud Storage Virtualization App for the iPhone
Mar 9th, 2010 by admin
Like many people I have files stored on a number of different place on the ‘cloud’. Some are on email (several different providers), and others are on free storage sites, some are on FTP, documents are on Google Docs etc. Accessing these files as and when I need them is not hard if I’m sat in front of my PC, but the fact they are distributed in different services does present some challenges.
I’ve been using SMEStorage for a while now to tie these services together into a ‘virtual cloud file system’ so that I can see and manage them all from one place. It has worked pretty well for me and with the release of new clients, that include a linux cloud drive and Mac Integration it has made it more applicable to the devices and OS’s I use everyday.
Given I spend a lot of time on the move, what was missing was mobile access, in particular iPhone access. Happily this has now been resolved with iSMEStorage now in the App Store.
Almost everything you can do with the web version you can do on the phone version, which includes:
Features include:
- File Viewer
- DropBox like Sync but for your cloud,
- Memo / Voice Memo creation and sync, Ability to load Local Files,
- Secure Files that need password before able to view,
- Cloud Clipboard: which enables you to share file links over email for multiple files from multiple storage clouds
- Get a TinyURL for any file posted to the iPhone clipboard for use in other applications,
- Create / Manage Collaboration Groups for sharing files
- If you want to Sync your files in real time with your underlying Storage Cloud, you can initiate this from Cloud Sync
and it is carried out on the Server.
- Easily rename and upload Photos to your chosen storage cloud
- Cloud Providers: Manage your cloud providers in real time and change which one you want files to be uploaded to
from the iPhone.
A video overview of the App’ can seen below:
Clouds supported include:
- Amazon S3
- RackSpace Cloud Files
- Box.Net
- Google Docs
- Microsoft SkyDrive
- Microsoft Live Mesh
- GMail-as-a-Cloud
- Email Clouds
- FTP Clouds
- Apple MobileMe
- WebDav enabled clouds
