We wish you a Happy New Year 2012

An eventful year reaches its end and we do not want to miss the opportunity to thank you warmly for your cooperation, trust and support. 

The development of TeamDrive’s next generation kept us busy throughout the whole year. We look forward to the new version and the Smartphone App for iOS and Android. 

In the first months of the new year you will be able to experience TeamDrive 3.0.

We wish you and your families Happy Holidays as well as a prosperous New Year.

Your TeamDrive Team

TeamDrive Grows Internationally - Finnish language and local hosting services available

Our TeamDrive partner Protacon Solutions Oy in Finland launches TeamDrive in finnish language combined with local storage this week. „TeamDrive is the perfect alternative to Dropbox for finnish people and companies, who want  to share and sync their documents easy and secure“ explains Olli Porkholm managing director of Protacon Solutions Oy. „The TeamDrive solution offers companies, students and families to collaborate freely over the Internet, maintaining full privacy and keeping their files stored in Finland!“
Protacon Solutions Oy is hosting the TeamDrive Cloud Services in their hosting facility in Jyvaskyla, Finland. With a finnish language version, TeamDrive and Protacon fulfil the special demand of finnish customers for ease of use and local support. The broad availability of Internet access in Scandinavia make it very attractive for companies to move their own servers into less expensive and easy scalable Cloud Services. The TeamDrive software let users continue to work on their local documents as before and adds full control and security when sharing over the Internet. „It is a pleasure to see the professionalism and passion the Protacon team invests in our partnership“ expresses Detlef Schmuck, COO & Co-Founder of TeamDrive Systems during the press meeting in Finland.

Finnish customers please explore the new finnish website www.teamdrive.fi

Award-winning! Data Protection Seal of Approval for TeamDrive Synchronisation Software in the Amazon Cloud

Finally we received the new seal of approval for privacy and data protection in TeamDrive.

The audits took much longer this time, as the Independent Centre for Data Protection in Germany, (ULD) certified TeamDrive’s high security standards for the first time in the Amazon cloud, too.

Our End to End encryption protects users privacy in the Cloud and on private servers. No server administrator or government authority is able to view and to disclose any stored information. Documents stay under the control of its users only. And all this is done by the client software automatically without any user interaction.

German government authorities and public offices are recommended to use software which carries the Data Protection Seal of Approval. We see this as an obligation for TeamDrive to continue the development of secure and easy to use collaboration and synchronisation software for new platforms like smartphones and tablet PCs which we will release later this year.

Photo: The privacy seal was awarded by Marit Hansen, Vice President of the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) to Volker Oboda, CEO of TeamDrive Systems GmbH, August 5th, 2011

Around the world: search for privacey while using online sync

It is very obvious, Internet users this year are getting more concerned about privacy and security than ever before. The press is full of incidents of data leaks from high secure government servers and stolen identities and credit card information from the Sony network. All in common reliable services until such an incident. What do we learn from this? Security vulnerabilities are everywhere and users cannot trust by definition a secure service. So, when using the Internet to collaborate, back-up and share data on-line it is recommended to be extra suspicious of the services to choose. Often users have to read between the lines. Many online services write that they provide full encryption and forget to mention that they posses the keys for your data. This should worry users as they are kept in a deceitful security. Most online Internet services expose your data to such risk and they even confess in their terms & conditions that they will cooperate with government and official institutions to hand out requested data.
Conceptually, we at TeamDrive designed our software that way, that the privacy of customers can always be granted for all data. We highly encrypt all communication and all data in the clients and the keys remain there. Which means that no one could ever access your data outside of your trusted clients. We are very delighted that more and more users and companies around the world recognize the advantages of the Teamdrive technology. Recently we can see many tweets, reviews, comparisons and download recommendations from all over the world and in many different languages. Here are just a few samples from the past few weeks:

USA

http://www.bnet.com/blog/businesstips/share-files-with-your-team-with-this-secure-alternative-to-dropbox/11372

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/synchronize-data-between-team-members-with-teamdrive/

http://dartproject.info/WPBlog/?cat=93

http://filesynchronizationsoftware.us/synchronize-data-between-team-members-with-teamdrive/

http://www.chinwong.com/index.php?/site/article/cloud_drives/

http://janvandevoort.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/teamdrive-the-perfect-openoffice-collaboration-software-for-linux-windows-and-macintosh/

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33135/teamdrive

Japan
http://www.forest.impress.co.jp/docs/review/20110520_446924.html

Portuguese
http://info.abril.com.br/tvinfo-novo/zoom/software/teamdrive-oferece-disco-virtual-2gb-34d9287b72b47b60fcd3bb7870f353bd.shtml

http://www.baixaki.com.br/download/TeamDrive.htm

http://www.superdownloads.com.br/download/147/team-drive-free/

http://pplware.sapo.pt/windows/software/teamdrive-2-2-o-significado-de-cloud/

Italiano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I53sTpZla4U

Spanish
http://www.filecluster.es/programas/TeamDrive-Portable-127882.html

Swedish
http://www.firstsoft.se/article/16223-teamdrive_free?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+firstsoftse+%28FirstSoft+-+Recenserade+program%29&utm_content=Twitter

German
http://www.testberichte.de/p/teamdrive-systems-tests/team-drive-2-0-testbericht.html

AfterWorkArt & Charity Event

The TeamDrive team hosted a charity event to support the "NON-PROFIT FOUNDATION AGAINST THE FATAL CHILDREN’S DISEASE

NEURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS (Batten disease) NCL". It was a nice charity event and great party at our TeamDrive offices. We thank our fantastic guests, sponsors and partners. The German actor Mathieu Carrière was the special Guest and the fantastic blues and soul singer Jessy Martens made it a great party. The pictures where all made with iPhones tweeted on TwitPic by grossstark. It was an inspiration to repeat somthing like this in a year from now.
More pictures from the event are posted on our facebook page.

TeamDrive wins the sync comparison in Computerbild

Great news for TeamDrive in the first week of the new year. Computerbild, the largest computer magazine in Europe, voted TeamDrive as the best online sync tool. It is an encouraging result in a very competitive environment and a great motivation for the hole team to work hard to expand that position with our new upcoming releases. The competition to TeamDrive in the test where Microsoft LiveMesh, Wuala and Dropbox. As the smallest company in this field we need to spread the word and continue to grow our recognition in the market.

Happy New Year 2011