Acronis Files Connect

Acronis Files Connect has an easy and clean interface that is loaded with effective and very powerful components and also every easy to use. Ability to access multiple project files through Acronis Files Connect is effective and easy cost management platform. Storage and the categorization of different files is fantastic and the reports are very clear and professional.

Acronis Files Connect tools are easy to access and the management of different project documents and storage of all the business files on one platform is perfect. Organizing files on Acronis Files Connect is very easy for all users and the training guidance that Acronis Files Connect team provides is an effective and excellent support desk.

We're a Journalism School that have several hundred Macs. Traditionally, we'd use Apple servers with Xsan or some other local storage, but we wanted to centralize our storage and servers to VMs and the campus Netapps. Apple, for whatever reason, hasn't ported Spotlight search to some SMB system, or integrated with Windows Search, so search just doesn't work right over SMB, let alone things like Office apps overwriting permissions, etc.

Acronis Files Connect allowed us to migrate our storage to a central VM running 2012R2, and have storage on the Netapps (in the form of a couple LUNs), and share that data out over both SMB for Windows users, and AFP for Mac users. And all the annoying things that Apple's native AFP server used to do (ghost users, permission overwrites, etc) can be fixed/blocked/etc with Acronis. It's pretty amazing. Oh, and Search works!

If you have enough Mac clients working off a server, and they need search, or have been causing issues with Office docs, then this is definitely for you. Even if it's just a few users, the price of a small license is quite reasonable.

If you don't have these issues, I wouldn't bother. The Mac does SMB "relatively" well.