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Egnyte
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Egnyte is the company blog at egnyte.com, writing about programming, systems and web. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention Egnyte as a file sync and sharing product for offices, often compared with Dropbox. One links an engineering post on redesigning its configuration system for many customers and users.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
23,000+ businesses use Egnyte to give AI the business context it needs, collaborate on massive files, and govern sensitive content on one secure platform.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-22
What Hacker News says?
Does anyone have experience with Egnyte? https://www.egnyte.com/ The thing that makes it attractive to me is that it can sync with a Netgear NAS. About half our staff are in a central office, the other half are remote, so this is a solution that looks like it would cater well to that situation.
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on “Amazon Zocalo”Submitted Transcoding: How Egnyte Serves Videos at Scale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI know at least Egnyte ( https://www.egnyte.com/ ) offers folder permissions, and has clients on Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone and iPad. The Linux client is available on some NAS devices and also as a VMWare appliance. Disclaimer: I work for Egnyte.
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on “With Sync Solved, Dropbox Squares Off With Apple’s iCloud”Submitted Dynamic Back Ends in Haproxy with Lua as a story · 2 points
HN discussion1. Google Apps for Business - No onsite hardware - Calendars with sharing - Webmail / imap access - Can be a central point of administering users, if the other apps integrate to Google Apps (e.g. the Apps from Apps Marketplace) - Supports Windows, OS X and Linux - All machines are fully usable outside the office Now you are almost there. Forget that MS stack. It's costly, vendor-lockin, and feels like a thing from a…
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on “Ask HN: The perfect 20-50 people office network setup?”Submitted How and Why Egnyte Redesigned Its Core Configuration System as a story · 1 points
HN discussionwe use Egnyte ( http://www.egnyte.com ) at our office, it does file sync like Dropbox, except more secure and scalable.
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on “Ask HN: Secure Dropbox alternatives?”Submitted Kloud Kantina as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe short-short is: how to manage granular config for over 10k customers, 500k users and still make dev, pe, support and pmo happy. Lots of performance optimizations discussion and some interesting (to me at least) requirement analysis. AMA. Also, We're hiring! Local at SF bay area, US / Mumbai India / Poznan, Poland. Remote anywhere in the US, Poland, India. https://www.egnyte.com/careers
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on “How and Why Egnyte Redesigned Its Core Configuration System”Submitted Hybrid Single Sign-On -- Sharing Your Cloud Files with Ease as a story · 1 points
HN discussion