Adam Thompson, Executive Director and Co Founder at eHealth Africa, shares how his NGO uses Resilio Sync (formerly BitTorrent Sync) for a wide variety of replication and synchronization needs. At eHealth Africa our mission is to deliver better public health services to vulnerable communities through data-driven technological solutions. We have over 800 staff members, with […]
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Virtuos Games Uses Sync To Move Huge Datasets When Porting Titles
Jurgen Kluft, Senior Technical Director at Virtuos Games, takes us through the process of using Sync to move the huge amount of data generated when porting titles to PlayStation4 and XBox One: Virtuos Games is an outsourcing company that provides co-development services to game companies. We consult on everything from art production and porting of […]
Sync 2.3 Brings More Features For Power Users
Sync provides a simple and powerful solution: the ability to move large amounts of data directly between devices. This concept has a wide variety of use cases and today we’re announcing the release of Sync 2.3, which provides new features to better support power users seeking to unlock Sync’s full potential.
Understanding the Sync Encrypted Folder
For Resilio Sync 2.3 we’re releasing a new type of folder: the Encrypted Folder. The Encrypted Folder extends the functionality of the existing standard folder by giving you the ability to have peers that hold data encrypted at rest. An encrypted peer can communicate with both read-only and read-write peers by sending and receiving data […]
Sync Security and Privacy Brief Now Available
Security and privacy are two of the leading issues for users when transferring important data. Keeping data on-premises makes business and IT leaders feel more secure, but comes with technical challenges when there’s a need to share data externally. BitTorrent Sync offers the ability to sync data securely and privately by replicating data directly between […]
Sync 2.2 Now Available
Sync is a big idea providing a very simple solution: the ability to move large amounts of data directly and efficiently between devices without the public cloud. We’ve been evolving the initiative from the start, and the launch of Sync 2.0 was a major milestone: the introduction of a commercial version of the product. Today […]
BitTorrent Sync Partners with Onehub, Brings Integrated Offering for Enterprise Sync and Share
We built BitTorrent Sync to be a great tool for business workgroups and individual power users. It gives people an easy way to sync files across their devices and share with others, leveraging peer-to-peer technology to work fast and maintain a high standard of privacy.
How a Creative Film Company Uses Resilio Sync with Adobe Premiere to Share Files
Steve Cassingham, founder of Metastyle Films, shares how Resilio Sync (aka BitTorrent Sync) helps him and his editor share Adobe Premiere files without having to deal with consistent folder structures:
The Creatives of Wonder Giant Squash Inefficiencies with BitTorrent Sync
Danny Davis, the founder of Wonder Giant, shares how his team uses BitTorrent Sync to focus on creating and how they remove technical hurdles like providing everybody access to files and keeping projects secure:
Sync Tips: Quickly Finding Things in Resilio Sync
The more you use Sync, the more folders you have in the main list, the more you interact with other users, and the more devices synchronize files. Until now, the more valuable information you have in Sync, the harder it often became to navigate. Recently, we implemented a search feature and some additional columns in […]
Airborne Tech Company eWind Created Their File Sharing System with BitTorrent Sync
Brennan Gantner, Director of Technical Development for eWind, shares how his team uses BitTorrent Sync to reliably and securely access shared files without fuss:
RecordSetter Set a World Record at SF Bay to Breakers With a Little Help From BitTorrent Sync
Corey Henderson, co-founder and CTO of RecordSetter, shares how at the 2015 Bay to Breakers road race in San Francisco, BitTorrent Sync played an important role in helping the team transfer hundreds of Gigabytes of video footage under less than ideal Internet access:
BitTorrent Sync’s Android Update Brings Intel x86 Support
The Sync mobile app gives you a way to access all of your shared files on the go, without the need for any cloud storage. Whether you’re reviewing a work document, checking out a video clip, or backing up you the photos/videos to another device, it’s fully private and in your control.
Selectively Syncing Folders and Files with Resilio Sync
Back in the day, everything you put into Dropbox was synced to all of your computers. As more cloud storage solutions arrived, they behaved the same way. Users eventually demanded that some files sync but not others, and “selective sync” was born. You could simply choose which folders to sync and which ones to just leave […]
Creative Tech Agency DXY Keeps Teams Connected and Projects Secure with Resilio Sync
Daniel Young, CEO of DXY, shares how BitTorrent Sync help keeps three global offices connected to shared assets, for sensitive project files that need to be kept private:
How a Video Post-Production Studio Uses BitTorrent Sync for Big Files
Jason Bowdach of Cinetic Studios shares how BitTorrent Sync helps this team manage increasingly massive video files internally as a team and externally with clients:
BitTorrent Sync Update: Search & New Column Options
It’s been a few weeks since we took the beta tag off Sync and introduced version 2.0. Each week, we publish a story here that showcases how a customer uses the product, and we’re quickly learning some of the areas where Sync has been most useful.
Sync Tips: Selectively Sync Files
If someone shares a large folder with you, or there’s a folder you need on another computer, you may want access to it but don’t want to sync the entirety of its contents onto your device. When connecting to a folder, you are presented with a “Sync all” toggle, which allows you to choose if […]
Owl’s Head Solutions and Its Virtual Team
Scott Rackliff, chief technical officer, shares how Sync’s distributed architecture complements his company’s distributed workforce:
The Photo Booth Guys x BitTorrent Sync
Steve Bliesner shares his team’s story: Here at The Photo Booth Guys, our aim is to create beautiful photos and amazing experiences. There’s no detail too small; we look at every background, every prop, every print, making sure the final product is awesome. We operate in Australia and the United Kingdom, offering both photo booths […]