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BitTorrent has long billed its Sync file-sharing service as a peer-to-peer alternative to cloud storage, but on Wednesday the company announced it's working with Onehub on a new, combined offering for large businesses.
Onehub Sync integrates BitTorrent Sync into Onehub's online file-storage service through what the two companies call a hybrid, peer-to-peer+one approach. The result is said to combine the benefits of syncing directly between peers with using Onehub as a "persistent peer" that's always available in the cloud.
BitTorrent's Sync service requires at least two peer computers to be connected for file sharing to occur. With Onehub Sync, the cloud part of the equation means that users' Onehub Sync clients will always have a peer to connect with, ensuring that their content can stay current.
"Sync is ideal for organizations with hundreds of people, or individual workgroups," said Erik Pounds, vice president of product management for BitTorrent Sync, in a blog post announcing the news. Onehub is well-suited to companies of all sizes and delivers key features for enterprises, he said.
The combined offering provides numerous benefits for large enterprises, including speed, scalability, reliability and security, Pounds said.
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday July 19 2015, @04:51AM
Last I checked anyway:
What at one time was an Open Source project's SourceForge page now links to bittorrent dot com where one may download closed source, proprietary Mac OS X and Windows torrent clients. At one time one could download the Open Source Python code from bittorrent dot com but no longer, and I am unable to find it anywhere at SourceForge.
In fact I am unable to find the last Open Source release at all. It must be out there somewhere perhaps you can point it out.
I do know that SourceForge archives all the source that is ever checked in to its repositories but I don't know of any documented procedure for extracting that source from Dice Holdings.
If you care about an Open Source or Free Software project, don't assign copyright to anyone - if they want to change the license then they have to ask you to relicense your own source. Also if you possibly can make regular backups of the entire repository, not just the release tarballs.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]