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FolderMaestro is an enterprise level, real-time, multi-directional, distributed file locking and synchronisation technology. It ensures the same data exists on all participating servers regardless of where changes occur, and prevents users from accessing files that are currently in use by another user.

With FolderMaestro you are able to ensure that your data is accessible, providing a reliable IT solution for you business. FolderMaestro makes data collaboration for businesses with diverse geographical locations a reality. Now your staff can access files and folders in a controlled collaborative environment wherever they are located in the country or around the world.

A truly collaborative environment should mean that not only are files between servers controlled and managed, but also PC and laptop users. The difficulty with PC users is that they come and go on the network, so special measures need to be taken to cater for their needs. FolderMaestro Server ensures the server based files are kept synchronised at all times whilst FolderMaestro Laptop allows users to checkout files and hold them so they can be edited whilst on or offline.

No longer is there a need to use email, FTP, or a centralised file repository. FolderMaestro ensures that your data is always up to date on every file server through real-time file replication. Version conflicts are prevented through distributed real-time file locking ensuring only one person can edit a file at a time.

A study of 40,000 projects found that 66% failed or were are late, over budget or missing critical features. One factor that can contribute to these failures is the geographic distance between project team members. As companies expand and open remote office locations or work with partner firms, teams must find ways to work together across both geographic and company boundaries. With increasing complexity comes the necessity to hold local copies of files at each office.

Historically, providing project files to every team member was done by any number of means. Through email attachments, uploading documents to an FTP site for retrieval. Using a document management solution as a centralised data repository. More recently, through document sharing services offered on the Internet. However, each of these solutions have their own limitations.

So how does FolderMaestro respond to these challenges?

FolderMaestro was created to provide seamless document collaboration capabilities built around traditional file server management processes. File servers utilising FolderMaestro benefit:

• Choose which folders you want to share and with whom on a folder by folder basis. Shared folders will automatically replicate to only those file servers you designate.
• Shared folders will have real-time replication so changes made anywhere will propagate to all other locations.
• Files being edited at any location will propagate a file lock (to prevent version conflicts) at all other locations.
• All file transfers are secure and encrypted via SSL.
• Only changed portions of a file are replicated. Because all files are replicated, large project files are accessed instantly at local speeds.

Which implementation best suits you needs?

FolderMaestro Laptop ensures that end-users with laptops, can “check-out” shared files from the file server, for remote editing. This it can do even if you have a single server without FolderMaestro installed. However, when used in conjunction with FolderMaestro Server, as a file is “checked-out”, FolderMaestro Server locks down the corresponding file across all servers until the laptop user “checks-in” their file edits and those edits are synchronised across all systems in the collaboration group.

FolderMaestro Server is an enterprise-level, real-time, multi-directional, distributed file locking and synchronisation technology that ensures the same data exists on all participating servers regardless of where changes occur, and prevents users from accessing files that are currently in-use by another user in the session.

How FolderMaestro works

A file collaboration session consists of two or more participating servers, and a folder hierarchy called the Watch Set. This is located on each server which will be kept synchronised by propagating file locks and modifications to all participating servers in real-time. FolderMaestro has local and remote characteristics that form the basis of a distributed application framework. FolderMaestro installations are composed of 3 primary components:

• FolderMaestro Hub - The Hub is the central component of the FolderMaestro framework. All FolderMaestro solutions are installed, configured and started at the Hub.
• FolderMaestro Broker - The Broker makes up the central messaging system that supports FolderMaestro applications. The Broker provides the core communication facility that connects the Hub and Agents in a FolderMaestro collaboration environment.
• FolderMaestro Agent - The Agent is a lightweight component that is installed on a networked host that enables it to participate in a FolderMaestro collaboration environment.

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