BrickFTP Reduces Price for Online Backup

BrickFTP (Action Verb, LLC) is a cloud- based service that helps customers, from individuals to corporations, work with files both internally and externally.

It announced a price drop designed to put it’s service within reach of businesses of any size. This file sharing and storage solution is being offered for $0.50/GB stored.

Many times a company will need to a way to distribute documents, photos or videos across their different departments. For example, their billing team might only need expense reports, and their design team would only see website mockups.

While other file sharing solutions include basic versions of this, this takes this concept and extends it to to the enterprise, meeting the demands that these companies often require. It features HIPAA compliance, security and encryption, custom white-label branding, API access, desktop application access (Windows, OSX, and Linux), audit logs to see who exactly is accessing what, when, and how, and a lot more.

Since its launch in 2009, the customer base has grown to encompass a range of different industries and markets, each bringing their own set of challenges to the table. By listening to customer needs and requirements, it has built up a set of features which is made to satisfy almost any type of business out there.

Here are examples of the types of companies that take advantage of BrickFTP, as well as the features they use most:

• Architecture firms love the web interface that is brandable. For example, Peachtree Associates points their account to their own custom company.com domain name, and then uses CSS and Javascript to customize the interface to match their website. Because it does not put any of it’s own logos or mentions in the product, this firm can brand it as their own proprietary software, impressing customers and clients.

• Health and medical services deal with protected health information which must conform to HIPAA privacy rules. This supports compliance with HIPAA. Health customers also take advantage of the security controls that it offers, such as required SSL connections, brute force protection, AES 256-bit encryption, restricted IP access, control of backup retention, and more.

• Transcription services need a way for their clients to upload files without signing up. It offers a feature called anonymous uploading, which lets anyone upload to a ‘dropbox’ folder in the account, but without him or her being able to see what’s inside. These companies also take advantage of the notification feature, which will email any number of users any time a file is added or overwritten within a folder. This means the second a client uploads a file, an email will be dispatched and the company can begin their work transcribing while staying on a deadline.

• Graphic design agencies benefit from the sharing capabilities, which allow single files or entire directories to be publicly shared with a single generated link. One feature of these public ‘QuickShare’ links is that, if they contain images, video or audio, the public link will also show previews, so that the receiver can view the media before downloading the entire (and potentially large) zip file. Likewise, there is a visual breakdown of all the files within a shared bundle, so the user can opt to download just a single file rather than all of them.

• Video agencies deal with files that are very large in size. This can handle files that are several gigabytes large, and has customers who store many terabytes of data in their account.

Signing up for BrickFTP does no require a credit card and includes a free 30-day trial.