After a silent launch last month we are proud to announce the official release of PowerFolder Server 5.0.
Below you will find an overview of the updates included, as always you will find the most comprehensive information on our wiki here!

New Features include:

- RADIUS / Federated EDU RADIUS connectivity
- News-stream of changes / Audit trail.
- Enterprise addon leaves beta and goes live. Centrally manage backups.
- Script after download. Automate processes after sync.

Improvements
-API functions added: query account data, change account permissions.
- Enhanced apps for iOS and Android. File upload added.
- License service connection is now highly-available.
- License and micro credits stats added to admin dashboard.
- Folder lists now show up much quicker in web portal.
- Connection speedup: Clients get much smaller folderlist now.

Full Patchnotes and update information available in the wiki here!

We just released PowerFolder Client v 5.9.4 as RC1.

This build is the first publicly available, yet already very mature, fusion of our latest developments.
You will find both the new user-experience based on our new UI and also the new high-performance java-virtal-machine “JET” present in this latest client.

The new UI greatly enhances the user experience and gives you a very slick and effective way of using all the functions available within our world-class product suite.

The new JET-technology will greatly reduce memory loads even in the most extreme usecases, for example users synchronizing tens of thousands of files with a volume of dozens of GB will have a memory footprint reduction of 75% to 200%

Get it now from:
https://www.powerfolder.com/de/support/development-builds.html

It is possible for both PowerFolder Pro and also PowerFolder Server customers to update to this version if they want to experience the latest and greatest PowerFolder experience. Keep in mind that Server customers will need to manually configure their own Server-URL.

In der Ausgabe 02/2012 der GWDG-Nachrichten berichtet die GWDG, das IT-Kompetenzzentrum der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft sowie das Großrechenzentrum der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, über die Nutzung von PowerFolder sowie die Erfahrungen in der Zusammenarbeit mit PowerFolder.

Unter http://www.gwdg.de/index.php?id=2542 können Sie die GWDG-Nachrichten direkt bei der GWDG als PDF downloaden.
Weitere Informationen über die GWDG sind ebenfalls direkt bei der GWDG verfügbar unter http://www.gwdg.de/index.php?id=ueber_uns

Wir bedanken uns bei der GWDG für die exzellente bisherige und zukünfigte Zusammenarbeit.

Due to a hardware failure in our cluster system, we recently discovered some possibilities for improvements in our infrastructure as well as our server software. As you may have noticed, most of our infrastructure was available, but some services were not or only usable with limitations.

As failures are common, when it comes to IT, we used the opportunity to gain a benefit from this situation and added improved redundancy to PowerFolder Server internal routines and our infrastructure hardware to avoid longer downtimes in the future.

Now we can serve also our customers with that benefit, since the development of stronger failover routines have also been implemented into our server software, which is running in several enterprise-scale environments. Furthermore we are happy to serve you with our knowledge about automatic failover scenarios, to help you implement them also in your distributed, but at the same time centrally managed PowerFolder cluster environment.

In detail we added:

• Automatic failover mechanisms, which result in improved availability for the registration & licensing service as well as database related transactions
• New hardware for our PowerFolder Server cluster, to stand by in case of malfunction

If you are not yet a customer, but searching for a reliable, centrally managed and distributed data backup or collaboration solution, our sales team will be happy to introduce you to the advantages of a PowerFolder Server cluster.

Some users reported problems when trying to install the latest PowerFolder client.

If you are affected by this problem indicated by a message like “PowerFolder.exe still running” we have a workaround for you.

Please download and install the upcoming PowerFolder version 5.6 optimized edition RC1.

Note: When later upgrading to the official release version (ETA: 2 weeks) your configuration will be preserved. (Release notes for version 5.6, Read more about the optimized edition)

Blessings and a fantastic year 2012 to you all.

Due to a severe hardware failure in one of our clusters a limited number of users may not be able to synchronize their data to the cloud or access the data via the web portal.
The service interruption may persist until the 21st of December 2011.
Data integrity is not affected for any user, synchronization and backup between the clients is not affected.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

In 2012, we will introduce a new technology across the board that will feature a significant improvement in the memory footprint and improved performance.
As a teaser for the holiday season we have decided to release a BETA client with this technology.

The technology introduced in the new client reduces the idle memory footprint from 200 to approximately 50mb while increasing overall performance. In medium to high load situations the new client is expected to use about 150mb with 50k files and a few dozen GB of data.

Beware that this is BETA and will install into a seperate folder, we do appreciate any feedback and suggestions.

Due to unscheduled maintenance the service is not available for two hours until approximately 22:00 CET 19.12.2011.

We apologize for any inconvenience.