Business version of Wuala

The nicest thing about wuala for me, apart from file availability and encryption, is the network drive option for Windows computers. This is because it is transparent to the user and requires no additional steps to work with files, you simply manipulate the files as if they were on a local drive. In a business environment this would be great because the user needs no additional training to use the program. 

What I would like to see is a version of the client for mobile business users with the following features: 
-Disable 'world' access so that business documents cannot be shared with the outside world 
-Enhanced sharing permissions and access control 
-Better Windows x64 network drive integration and Linux FUSE support 
-Sync to local 'master copy' of files, on company intranet server. 

I think businesses would gladly pay for such a version because of small infrastructure & training costs.
 

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nickname replied 12 hours ago
one thing about the syncing of stuff and maybe the roadwarrior (mobile user) scenario with heavy "offline" times.

it would be great for example if i could "subscribe" (sync/watch-for-changes) to some elements in the wuala store.

for example coworker1 takes his mobile device/laptop with wuala running out of the office to some client where he needs to show some presentation, demos, chars, drawings, pictures and so on.

coworker2 in some other department creates some of the stuff for this client the company works for currently.

coworker2 dumps some nice ppt/pdf/younameit in wua.la/worldcompany/importantclient/collectionoffilez.zip

whenever coworker1 is connected to the wuala network the wuala client at coworker1s machine should automatically try to fetch all the elements/stuff that he is subscribed to, for example the stuff that coworker2 creates in that above directory/location/url....

the magic is the work automagically.... automagical sync whenever i connect the wuala client to the wuala network in any way... coworker1 needs to stay up-to-date with the changes and material coworker2 supplies and creates and maybe even vice-versa (random access memory group - read/write for all the groupmembers, all groupmembers subscribe to this group for example) and so on....

what i miss at a lot of times that wuala clients still lack some basic intelligence or data syncing/mirroring/fetching/pushing/pulling settings and methods.....

so far you can only use your wuala-stored data (when you are in an offile/network-less area) when you actually have downloaded it (click/download).

but it would be great if there was an auto push/pull/sync setting that could be applied and configured extensively and in detail for a certain object, for certain kinds of objects (filters, regexp, younameit), sync-policies, rulesets and so on......

anyone agree? cheers.

also: it would be great if i run multiple wuala clients with the same credentials each of the wuala clients should actually mirror all (just as an example, read: configurable of course) the data that belongs to that wuala account.

this would ensure the presence of the piece of data at the additional wuala clients (and also the other way around), and again in the case of network outage and all those scenarios. and it would also add to the propagation, distribution and redundancy/backup-quality of the stored data.

even when i run multiple wuala clients at distinct locations at high uptime percentage, in cases of networkoutage at a specific wuala client i cant access my own data on that wuala client if it hasnt actually downloaded its own data (just an example scenario) at least once before......

it would be great if the user could select things like: 
- mirror/store/sync my own data on this storage/client for x% (amount) of the local datastore-capacity
- always store/sync own elements changed/accessed in the last x hours/days/weeks/months/years/from date to date.... / younameit...
- always store content X (favorites, links, other users data, groups, filters/regexp,.....

there are basically a bazillion ideas for this......

i can think of great discussions on the details.