2/3 of Current OFS Customers “Extremely” Interested in Hybrid Online File Sharing

Egnyte, Inc., provider of file-sharing platform for the enterprise, announced the results of a sponsored report from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), which finds that more than two-thirds of current OFS customers are extremely interested in hybrid online file sharing solutions (OFS), citing flexibility and control over data as the top factor driving interest.

Egnyte customer deployments echo these findings with 7 out of 10 customers moving to hybrid within the first 90 days of deployment, more than 2/3 of all customer inquiries and pilots demanding hybrid as a part of their file sharing deployment model and more than three-fourths of Egnyte partners naming hybrid as one of their top three solution focus areas this year.

According to the report, The Demand for Hybrid Online File Sharing Solutions ($100), published last week, ESG found that more than two-thirds (69%) of respondents who had used an online file sharing solution for at least 6 months said they were now very interested in the ability to store some or all of their data on-premises storage resources.
 
The report cites the top factors driving interest in keeping some of all data on-premises among current OFS users as follows:

• Ability and flexibility to control where data is stored – 54%
• Ability to leverage existing on-premises infrastructure investments – 41%
• Belief that we can control data better than third-party services – 38%
• Concern over accessibility of public cloud-based data to third parties – 36%
• Need to comply with government regulations – 35%
• Concern over OFS provider employees’ level of access to data – 34%
• Local copy of data helps to mitigate performance concerns – 34%
• Need to comply with industry regulations – 33%
• Better balance of fixed (i.e., CAPEX) and variable (i.e., OPEX) costs makes budgeting easier – 31%

Recent hybrid deployments include AIB, AppDynamics and Calvary Church, Devcon & Westmont College.

“The overwhelming number of hybrid deployments we’re seeing across customers of all sizes speaks volumes about where the online file sharing market is headed,” said Egnyte VP WW field operations Steve Erbst. “Simply put, it’s a matter of providing customers a choice. The cloud is great for some data & use cases but others, especially data sets that need to stay behind the firewall need to be addressed – and accessed differently. That’s where Egnyte comes in and delivers a win-win for everyone, including our customers AND our partners.”