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Over 2 million users are working with PowerFolder. This makes the Sync- and Share-Software from Meerbusch near Düsseldorf in Germany the market leader in education. The success creates new jobs.

Düsseldorf. Over two million users, a constantly growing company and an increasing number of jobs. PowerFolder is a story of success. Since the start seven years ago, the Sync- and Share-Software became in Germany the market leader in education. In the state of Baden-Württemberg alone, about half a million students and employees of all higher education institutions are given the possibility to work with PowerFolder. Using the software they are able to save, share and synchronize documents like research results and term papers.

Among the customers of PowerFolder are some of the most prestigious Education- and Research-Organizations in Germany. These include the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the University of Heidelberg as one of the oldest Universities of the country as well as the Max Planck Society.

The next – stability first – release of PowerFolder Enterprise Sync and Share is waiting for you – minor bug fixes, several improvements and a new free version are ready for you now

The new PowerFolder Version 9 Service Pack 4 comes with:

• Free version available for On-Premise / In-House installations
• Support for UTF8 special characters in user names re-added
• Easier setup of SSL
• Improved support for clustered high availability scenarios
• API improvements
• Several optimizations
• Various minor bug fixes

Those who want to save their private or business related data in a cloud do this best on their own hardware.  PowerFolder offers all users a free On-Premise- / In-House-Version which can be installed on private server. This way you will create your own private sync and share cloud independent from external services.

Briefly summarized:

• Free PowerFolder-cloud for your own server
• Available  as On-Premise- / In-House-Cloud-Version
• Up to 5 users have access to the cloud
• No limit to registered devices
• No size restriction for data storage device
• Simple to setup and to manage
• Easy to operate on the web-interface
• Secured data transfer
• Reliable and secured access to data from every Web-Browser
• Interchange large files via link in mails or chats
• Straight and fast data exchange between devices

How about your own secured cloud being installed to your private- or company-server?

Since all data is stored in your cloud it never leaves your system and can be managed by yourself at any given time. You keep control over all aspects and can administrate not only documents but also users.

Installing the PowerFolder on premise- / in-house-version is absolutely free for both, private user and for business purposes.

Your own sync- & share- cloud is installed on your existing hardware and presents access to five users, who have the pleasant option to connect to the new cloud with any device.  Appropriately there are free application for windows, mac and linux ready to be used. Additionally mobile apps functionality is also accessible for anyone.  The size and number of synchronized, shared and secured documents in your private cloud is not artificially limited –the purchased hardware by the customer alone presents a limit. In addition there are no limitations to the runtime of the Server, once you get it you can use it.

PowerFolder integrates itself into already existing IT(Active Directory / LDAP) and enables itself even in free version to be navigated by an extensive API .

Christian Sprajc, CEO: “PowerFolder exists since 2004 and was developed as an Open Source Project. Our solution is made in Germany and is therefore obliged to the high data protection standards/ privacy standards in Germany. Our software is extremely simple to manage/operate; therefore anyone is able to cope with our product.  In addition when exchanging large files there is a possibility to simply generate a link to the file, which then can be shared via mail or in chat.”

Should the free cloud-version reach the user limit, it is possible to expand it by additional users, make it highly available or even have it as a branded installation under your own brand. Furthermore paid support-package as well as enterprise features can be added to further enhance your private on-premise cloud.

The German company PowerFolder, specialized on enterprise sync- and share-solutions, offers journalists its proven cloud solution at extremely favorable conditions.

Meerbusch/Germany, 07-01-14 – More than 2 million users trust in PowerFolder, among them thousands of companies and more the 100 universities and research facilities. For example all universities in Baden-Wuerttemberg, the U.S. sensor-specialist and NASA/ESA-supplier Measurement Specialities Inc., the institutes of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the Georg-August-University in Goettingen as well as many others more are customers of the IT-specialist from Meerbusch. But not only companies, research facilities and educational institutions, but also private users benefit from the proven cloud-solution from Germany. Therefore PowerFolder is offering journalists a cloud-package at extremely favorable conditions.

Special discount for journalists: 100 GB for one year for one euro
Journalists get – in the context of this special offer – the PowerFolder cloud with a data volume of 100 GB for one euro for one year . The regular price is 72 euro (annual billing) respectively 7,20 euro (monthly billing). The offer is valid for a single user running the clients at any number of devices. So access is not just possible by smartphone or tablet (with the Android/iOS-app) but also by web and computer (Windows / Mac / Linux). At the end of the year the special-offer-package neither has to be canceled nor will it be transformed automatically into a regular-price-subscription or automatically renewed. But there will be the chance to get the PowerFolder cloud-solution again at the special conditions.
To benefit from this special offer a valid press card is required. Alternatively web links, articles or imprints with the author’s name (not older than six months) can used as qualification.

The benefits of the PowerFolder enterprise sync- and share solution
Access to latest documents is possible from any device – files and folders are automatically synchronized. So all documents and texts – written at home or at the editorial office – are also available “on the road” and are always up to date. The folders of PowerFolder can also be quickly accessed as network-drive, so it’s no problem to save videos, photos, texts and audio-recordings produced outside quick and safe and make them available to others. Colleagues and editorial staff can be invited to selected folders, documents can be sent via email, chat or QR-Code – that makes collaboration more effective. The safety of the data is always guaranteed: PowerFolder is a European cloud of a German company – there are no servers in the United States of America. Data will be transferred and saved encrypted; they never leave the German legal system. Besides the automatic backup in the background, the built-in file- and version-archive makes sure that the data will always be available and not be lost even if a computer or a server drops out.

Background
PowerFolder, headquartered in Meerbusch near Düsseldorf, develops and provides Sync- and Share- Solutions since 2007 for Business, Education- and Research-Organizations. The medium-size company serves thousands of customers worldwide, who prefer to keep their data in-house while profiting from the efficiency and comfort to access corporate data anywhere from any device.

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