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.

Product Updates:

Search Improvements: You can search inside your files. With familiar look and feel and strong searching capabilities you can search for file names (including wild cards) and also search inside the ".doc", ".docx", ".xls", ".xlsx", ".ppt", ".pptx", ".txt", ".htm", ".html", ".pdf", ".tif", ".tiff" file types for keywords. It is super fast and accurate.

Grouping Sub-Accounts: By adding sub-accounts to a Group, you can avoid having to grant the same permission to many different users one by one. Members of a group have the same permissions as it is defined for the Group.

PDF Thumbnails: View your PDF files as thumbnails.

Facebook Integration: This feature allows you to easily share your files or folders on social networking site facebook.

Google Docs Viewer: A quick and easy way to view PowerPoint, PDF, and TIFF files.

Send and Receive Faxes: We have partnered with Interfax a leading provider of Internet Fax Service. This feature provides a complete Business Fax solution, with no installation.

Update Notification: This feature allows the administrator to setup an email notification when a file in a shared folder gets uploaded or updated. It also allows the admin to specify which sub-accounts should get the notification email.

For Full description of the current features, please visit the Features webpage.

Limited Time Offer: Upgrade your account and get 50% discount. Get a Professional account with 25GB storage with many features for $149/year. Offer ends December 31st 2009. Full comparison of the plans can be found here!

API News
New api methods have been developed to support version control and account properties. For more information please visit the Developer’s site at http://developer.digitalbucket.net.

Case Studies
Technology Sales Resource is a marketing support company specializing in demand generation, telesales, sales management consulting, and business development for companies in the IT industry. Digitalbucket.net came to the rescue with their simple, economical, streamlined service. Using WebDAV, every employee is able to connect to our digitalbucket.net space through their Windows Network Places. Read More

Thank You,
The digitalbucket.net Team
www.digitalbucket.net

Our devoted team continues innovating new features and improving the operational performance of our services. This commitment is evident in several newly introduced features below. Please share your ideas and suggestions with us.
See what's new with digitalbucket.net - below are the latest services and ideas that make digitalbucket.net even better platform for preserving, sharing and collaborating your digital data online.

New Features
New format for Published Links: File or Folder's names are now part of the published links. This is especially useful for users who want to access the published files through widgets or 3rd party applications/web sites.

Upload by email: Forward your emails with attachments to upload@digitalbucket.net and the attachments will be extracted to your account.

Address book: A new Address book has been developed to store your contacts. You can define different contact groups and import your contacts from all the major email providers. For the Business accounts, contacts defined in groups can be shared with sub accounts.

Sub domain Rebranding: Enterprise users can have their own branded sub domain. This newly developed rebranding feature allows Businesses to direct their associates to a completely customized sub domain in the form of <yourcompanyname.digitalbucket.net>. Please contact us for more information.

New Audio Player: Drag and drop your music files to this audio player and create your playlist. Listen to your favorite music while you're uploading files and viewing your photo albums!

New web site and blog: We have redesigned our web site. Expect more content in the web site and share your suggestions in our blog.

API News
Keypass is a desktop password management tool that runs on both Windows and Linux. KeePassSync is a KeePass plug-in that synchronizes your database using digitalbucket.net API. This allows two or more computers to easily keep their data in sync.

Case Studies
DeBortoli Wines is one of the largest winemakers in Australia chooses digitalbucket.net to help their marketing/export departments interact with external designers. Digitalbucket.net's ability to provide publishing access for the internal sub-accounts and share. Read more.

Thank You,
The digitalbucket.net Team
www.digitalbucket.net

See what's new with digitalbucket.net - below are the latest innovations, services and ideas that make it even easier to share data and collaborate online. We love to hear from you. Keep those ideas and suggestions coming! Thank You.

New Features
SharePage: SharePage is an HTML page for integrating information, links and files across account boundaries. It is designed to provide a centralize access point for communication between admin and the sub accounts. SharePage is available for business accounts.

Windows Live Messenger: Windows Live Messenger is now part of your digitalbucket.net account. Login to the Windows Live Messenger using your Microsoft Live account and chat or share files with your buddies. To share files simply drag and drop them from the File Manager to the Messenger.

Theme and Backgrounds: Customize your account the way you like. With different themes and backgrounds, you can change your desktop appearance with dialogs coloring scheme and backgrounds. Select an image and set it as background.

Virtual Drive (BETA): Install digitalbucket.net's Virtual Drive on your Windows XP or Vista and get access to your digitalbucket.net files right from your Windows Explorer. Easily drag and drop files to the VD or vice versa. Use VD to upload the entire folder at once.

Advanced Sub accounts: Sub accounts are now capable of publishing files/folders. All folder publishing features like expiration, password protection and comments are available for sub accounts.

Sub Accounts Management: It is now easier to manger sub accounts. Account's admin can now easily view sub accounts in the tree node and quickly determine what folders with what permissions have been assigned to each sub account.

API News
The most anticipated feature is finally here. digitalbucet.net is now offering beta release of Virtual Drive for Windows Operating System for early testing and feedback. Virtual Drive has been developed using digitalbucket.net API. Download and install the Virtual Drive for Windows and try it out.

Case Studies
Second fastest-growing franchise in the Restaurant Business in the US chooses digitalbucket.net over Microsoft SharePoint for the sharing of corporate marketing material, training content, menu details, and franchisee specific financial and operational information. Read more.

News
We are offering Students and Schools with 1GB free accounts. The account email address must be in the form of .edu or have the school name in it. Please let us know if you are in academia and we will upgrade your account.

Thank You,
The digitalbucket.net Team
www.digitalbucket.net

I am delighted to announce that digitalbucket.net has ended the BETA phase as of Feb 8th 2008 and is open for business. Thank you all who bear with us during the beta period and provided us with constructive comments, bugs and suggestions.

Great News for Students
Students who sign up with .edu email accounts will continue to enjoy 1GB free storage.

Exciting New Features
We are excited to announce a number of new features that our team has been working on over the past months:

1. Web FTP Client: Say good bye to grand daddy FTP. Now you can connect to any FTP sites from your account and drag and drop files or folders to your digitalbucket.net account or vice versa. This feature is extremely helpful for the users, who want to backup their account on a FTP server.
   It is also useful for existing FTP account holders, who want to transfer their files from FTP servers to digitalbucket.net and take advantage of the digiatlbucket.net's state of the art user interface.
2. Anonymous FTP URL uploads: You can specify a URL as Anonymous FTP and digitalbucket.net's FTP manager uploads the file to your digitalbucket.net account.
3. Branding: Business account holders can customize the web desktop with their logo for their clients. This branding is also available for sub accounts as well as published folders and photo albums.

Please feel free to contact us with any suggestions or comments.

Thank You,
-Greg