Five years ago we took the "beta" label off of Digitalbucket.net and officially opened for business. It is humbling to think of all the small businesses (and big businesses) who do not survive five years, much less these last five years during the economic downturn. We are grateful for your continued dedication and support. 

It's also crazy to think about how much the technology world has changed. In early 2008, "cloud computing" was an emerging trend, the iPhone was still a baby, Box.net was still unknown, and Dropbox was on the drawing board. Today "cloud computing" is a no brainer, and we see new cloud services that continue to push down the cost and/or increase the productivity of running a small business. 

It's been so exciting and fulfilling to hear stories of our customers picking Digitalbucket over Box, Dropbox, and the others out there. Digitalbucket continues to be the best solution for small businesses to securely share files with business partners and colleagues, upload big files quickly, and access those files via Web, Mac, PC, Mobile. 

Even more important than the features, we strive to provide excellent customer support to each and every customer and have been generously rewarded with your loyalty. Thank you!

We're not resting on our past achievements. In 2013, we will continue to innovate, enhance, and simplify our service for you.

Here's to the next 5 years as we transform file sharing for small businesses!

We’re really excited to announce first version of our Android app! For those who are working from their smartphones, digitalbucket.net is now offering an Android app, which joins the existing iPhone and iPad apps, to enable users to access and share files while on the road.

The Android app has some nice features, shared with digitalbucket.net web app, such as being able to:

     • Access and View Documents, Photos, Videos, and Presentation on the go.

     • Share files by links easily via email.

     • Save files locally for offline viewing.

     • Photo Galleries.

     • File renaming: Simple as it sounds – files and folders can now be renamed.

     • Single-tap access to actions: All file and folder actions are available from a single tap.

Thanks to all of our users who helped us test the build earlier this week.

Download the digitalbucket.net 2. app from the Android Market.

The digitalbucket.net-Salesforce.com integration lets users leverage the power of digitalbucket.net to Access, Store and Share files directly from Salesforce.com. The files are stored in digitalbucket.net are accessible in the Salesforce.com interface and It allows users to easily share files such as product data sheets and sales collateral with customers and sales team members directly from Salesforce.com.

We have developed a Widget that allows users to access their files right from salesforce.com. A visual page has been developed that make this integration possible.

This application allows users to add the visual page to the Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, and Accounts tabs. It is also possible to insert the page into a new Tab.

When users try to access their files from the salesforce.com for the first time, the application asks for digitalbucket.net user credentials. Single Sign on has been implemented that allows users to automatically log into their account after their first successful integration.

In order for users to access the digitalbucket.net account, users must have a valid account with digitalbucket.net and their plan must support this integration. 

Please contact us for more information if you are interested in this integration.

There is a new study that shows that more companies are turning to the cloud to store their business critical information. The study surveyed nearly 600 companies across a wide range of industries about current data volumes, data growth expected, current data backup practices, and challenges surrounding online data storage, file management and distribution.

Nearly 40 percent of respondents currently use a cloud-based solution for either primary or secondary backup, while two-thirds ranked costs of cloud or backup systems as a problem for them, and only 15 percent said they were very satisfied with their current cloud solution.

While cloud services usage show a positive trend with this business audience, many companies are still experiencing significant challenges with their data backup and distribution.

Can cloud services really benefit your business?

There are still a large percentage of businesses do not use cloud services. This may be because they are unaware of the new technologies and services, do not understand the benefits, or simply believe it’s too expensive.

Increasing Data growth and the corresponding hardware obsolescence are creating the biggest challenges for business. A company’s ability to manage documents and data effectively is critical to operational effectiveness, employee productivity and ultimately help reduce expenses.

Digitalbucket.net gives your business access to storage and other in-the-cloud IT infrastructure services on demand, charging you only for the resources you actually use. With digitalbucket.net you can reduce costs, improve cash flow, minimize business risks and maximize revenue opportunities for your business.

· Use digitalbucket.net to provision IT resources on-demand within minutes so your business’s applications launch in days instead of months.

· Use digitalbucket.net as a low-cost test environment to sample new business models, execute one-time projects, or perform experiments aimed at new revenue opportunities.

· No long-term commitments. Supports multiple operating systems.

· Digitalbucket.net is Reliable, Secure, Inexpensive, and it is Flexible.

· Digitalbucket.net is used in Sales and Manufacturing, Marketing Firms, Law Firms, Retail and Franchise and many more industries.

Give digitalbucket.net a try and see how our cloud services can benefit your business’s bottom line.

We've identified you as an active digitalbucket.net user and are pleased to introduce our new customer appreciation program. By September 15th, if you refer digitalbucket.net to a new client and they sign up for an Annual Small or Midsize Business Plan, we will provide you with a $50 Amazon Gift card.

At the end of the promotion, the person with the most referrals will be eligable to receive a brand New iPad, courtesy of digitalbucket.net.

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Digitalbucket.net makes it easy to upload your files and distribute them between all of your users, but we’re always looking for new ways to help you make the most of your files once they’re in the cloud. We’re excited to announce that you can take advantage of our fantastic video streaming from your web browser too – wherever you are!

With Digitalbucket.net you can log in to your account and from the File Manager play any video file straight from your browser. We currently support the following Video formats.

Formats: asf, avi, wmv, wma, mpg, mp3, mov, mp4, m4v, m4b, 3gp, m4a, swf, flv

Simply go to any video in your account and select Play Video:

Have any thoughts or feedback on the new video streaming? We’d love to hear from you! Simply tell us your thoughts in the comments section below this post.

To help protect your organization's data against unauthorized access, you have options for setting login restrictions.

These two new options in the security section of the Account Management will allows you to you can define IP address ranges to ban or allow user(s) from accessing digitalbucket.net.

Trusted IP Address Ranges

Account administrators can set IP address ranges from which all the account users can log in without receiving a login error messages. If IP address restrictions are defined, any login from an unregistered IP address is denied, and any login from a valid IP address is allowed.

Device Identity Confirmation

If Device Identity Confirmation option is selected, digitalbucket.net checks whether the user is logging in from an IP address they have not been used before. If the user's login is from a browser that includes a digitalbucket.net cookie, the login is allowed. The browser will have the digitalbucket.net cookie if the user has previously used that browser to log in to digitalbucket.net.

For access via the user interface, the user is prompted to activate his or her account. An activation email will be sent to the address specified on the user's account email address. The email instructs the user to click on the Activate link in their browser to activate their computer for logging in to digitalbucket.net.

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You can now embed your folders anywhere on the web – in blogs, wikis and websites. This is a flexible and easy way to display your folder content right in the browser.

To take this feature for a spin, just right click on a folder that you’d like to embed and select “Get Download Widget...” option from the popup menu. In the dialog, you can select the width and height of your widget. Copy the script and paste it in your website or blog and you’re good to go! Only Account Administrator can generate the embed scripts.

Have you ever wanted to quickly dive into your Digitalbucket.net account from your iPad or iPhone and tweak a document using an editor such as iWork Pages? It’s easy – all you need is a Digitalbucket.net Business account and the latest version of the iWork apps. The iWork apps are some of the best apps for iPad or iPhone, and each show just how powerful a touchscreen device can be for creating and editing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

You can import any document from your Digitalbucket.net account by using the + button at the top left of an iWork app, and clicking WebDAV. Simply enter http://dav.digitalbucket.net into the server address, and then enter your Digitalbucket.net username and password:

Now, the app will connect to your digitalbucket.net account. Seconds later, you’ll see all of your folders listed. Browse to the file you want to edit, and then tap it to download the file to your device.

Here’s the format that each iWork app supports, from the Apple iWork for iPad support site:

iWork App    Importable File Types
Keynote    .key    .ppt    .pptx    .pps    .ppsx    ---    ---    ---
Pages    .pages    .doc    .docx    .dotx    .txt    ---    ---    ---
Numbers    .numbers    .xls    .xlsx    .xlt    .xltx    .xlsm    .xla    .csv

Most files open great once they are imported, though you may see warnings about any parts of the documents that aren’t supported. You may have to tweak documents a bit to work best across platforms, but for the most part it’s seamless working with documents from any common Office app.
When you’re done editing simply click on the tools button at the top right of the screen and select Share and Print. You’ll see Copy to WebDAV option. Select where you want to save the file back to your Digitalbucket.net, and click on Done. Your iWork app will then convert your document to the correct format and upload it to the server.

Once it’s uploaded, though, it is instantly accessible from anywhere using a range of supported interfaces such as a web browser, mapped drive, and mobile devices.

And that’s it! Your updated file will be saved back to your Digitalbucket.net account, synced between all of your PCs and available from anywhere.

It’s amazing how Smart phones and Tablets have accelerated the pace of Businesses faster than any other technology. One of the best things about storing your photos, music, videos and documents with digitalbucket.net is the ability to access them from anywhere – and especially from your phone when you’re on the move.

Even with all these great technologies, keeping up the way you work on your Laptop, on your Smart Phone on your Tablet is still a challenge. It is impossible to keep it all straight.

Introducing touch.digitalbucket.net

It is one app, whether you are using an iPhone, BlackBerry, iPad, Andriod, It works seamlessly across all your devices with all your data.

Log in with your digitalbucket.net account credentials and you’ll find yourself in a small, sleek version of your digitalbucket.net portal. You can browse your folders, view files or send files.

You can view PDF, Office Documents, and images right from within the app. Other files can be downloaded and opened from within apps that you’ve installed on your device.

Do you regularly use our mobile web portal? Do you have particular features or improvements that you’d like to see in future? Please send us an email support@digitalbucket.net and let us know.