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cFTP allows you to create clients accounts with a very easy to use front end. Then you can upload as much files as you want under each account, with the ability to add a title and description to each one.
Log in, select the client, upload the file and then you can send him a link to a web page that contains your logo, and a sortable list of every file uploaded under his name, with description, time, date, and control over their deletion. It also works as a history of "sent" files. They can check the differences between versions, the time that it took to do that, and so on.
Additional benefits include saving hundreds of mb on email accounts since every file remains on your server until you decide to delete it, and they can be accessed from any browser anywhere.
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OpenStack: The 5-minute Overview
What the software does: The goal of OpenStack is to allow any organization to create and offer cloud computing capabilities using open source software running on standard hardware. OpenStack Compute is software for automatically creating and managing large groups of virtual private servers. OpenStack Storage is software for creating redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of commodity servers to store terabytes or even petabytes of data.
Why open matters: All of the code for OpenStack is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. Anyone can run it, build on it, or submit changes back to the project. We strongly believe that an open development model is the only way to foster badly-needed cloud standards, remove the fear of proprietary lock-in for cloud customers, and create a large ecosystem that spans cloud providers.
Who it's for: Institutions and service providers with physical hardware that they'd like to use for large-scale cloud deployments. (Additionally, companies who have specific requirements that prevent them from running in a public cloud.)
How it's being used today: Organizations like Rackspace Hosting and NASA are using OpenStack technologies to manage tens of thousands of compute instances and petabytes of storage.
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