Our new browser-based Shared-Drives in the cloud; intuitive for users and painless to deploy.
With several remote branches and sales reps all over the place and were looking for a way to move our shared drives to the cloud - that our users will ACTUALLY USE (dare I say: LIKE).
This Yarkon product was very simple to deploy (as a test run first, then in production); we had a small question (after trying to improvise during the installation...) and their support was quick and efficient.
Once in place it was completely intuitive for our early adopters and almost as easy on the, ahhhmmm, less-competent users (did I mention Sales Reps?!); people spoiled by 5-30 years of Windows Explorer and/or Mac Finder knew exactly where to go and what to do when first browsing to Ys3's user interface (to the point it took a while to understand why files need to be downloaded for local editing).
The Admin Console further improved my quality of life, especially with users coming and going constantly.
If there's a down-side it's the lack of some of the superfluous features I got used to paying extra for and rarely using, but the end-user ease of use and virtually no learning curve on both the admin and customer side, not to mention the cost-effectiveness, made this a no brainer for IT and a quick sell to those who sign our checks.
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Impressive, useful, and free utility for basic S3 management
We have been using this little web interface application for a week now, and have been very happy so far. It works as advertised making the basic tasks we used to use the Amazon S3 UI for go faster and smoother.
Pros: it works in a browser, so no downloads - that's a must for us. It feels faster than the generic S3 interface (we use Chrome). It has all the basic features we need. We really like the bucket size analysis feature - the graphic display is very cool for a web application. And, it is free, did not ask for any registration.
Cons: does not have all the bells and whistles other tools have; but then again, this tool offers simplicity and if we wanted to do more complex things, we would use scripting anyway.
PS
It fixed my biggest pet peeve with the S3 interface - so many times did I routinely hit the "back" button to go to the previous view, only to lose my bucket listing, then had to spend few minutes scrolling and reloading until getting back to where I was, ouch...