One of the major reasons for the surge in shadow IT services in recent years is that many internal IT organizations couldn’t really provide a file sharing and synchronization capability for users of ...

Connected Data has also developed apps for mobile Android and iOS devices that enable smartphones and tablets running those operating systems to share and download files stored on a Transporter.

Connected Data offers two configurations: The Transporter, reviewed here, houses a 2.5-inch, 500GB, SATA 3Gb/s hard drive (renting that much storage on Dropbox would cost $500 each year).

You can query data from different sources simultaneously, apply filters and sorting, and even join data across files. Important: When using the Multi Source driver, all connected files are read-only.

Alation’s Connected Sheets uses a no-code interface that allows enterprise users to query for data without having to learn a new language, the company said, adding that the offering also helps ...