Oh, I want to welcome everyone, to our webinar, directed at the architectural engineering and construction industries.
And today, we are featuring our awesome customer, Jordy Gallas, and we're going to walk you through, not only a demo on how you can utilize your, LucidLink with some of the common AEC industry tools like Revit and any of the, Autodesk, pieces of software. But we're just gonna also take you on the journey on how, Fortigallis actually found LucidLink and what it means what it meant before and after LucidLink. So, with that, again, thanks for everyone attending.
And I have three panelists here, and I'm gonna let them introduce themselves in just a second. But let me tell you who they are. So from Tortugales, I have the chief technology officer, Omer Mashwar, and, he's got all the colorful pictures in the background.
And then his cohort, who's the director of digital design, Rato Rendersky. And then from my neck of woods at LucidLink, we have, Rich Warren, who's on the East Coast, and Rich is our, sales engineer, guru. So with that, Amir, I'd like to turn it over to you just to say a little bit about yourself and then hand it over to Roto.
Sure. Well, as you mentioned, I'm the CTO for Torti Gallis and Partners. Been with the company close to sixteen years now, in charge of any and everything IT and technology related, and, definitely looking forward to this webinar and speaking more about the solution.
Hello. Hey, everybody. Good afternoon.
My name is Rado, and I'm, representing the happy user here today.
And I'm a director of digital design at Torti Gallas and Partners. I've been with the firm for eighteen and a half years by after I was coming from Slovakia with my architectural background.
I've been using Autodesk technology for about twenty four years, including Bentley stuff and other CAD and CAM and GIS related applications.
Part of my just job description is, helping Omer for deploying the new new technology. You know?
I'm doing training, mentoring, project planning, implementation of new technology, CAD and BIM management, working on Revit templates, coordination, clash detection, you know, and also, of of course, daily support for individual users now when we everybody's working from home and and for the entire teams and, as well as in house renderings and animations.
And I think that's that's about it.
K.
Take it away, Rich.
Rich Rich Warehund, sales engineer here at LucidLink.
I've been here a year and a half. And, initially, what attracted I I was LucidLink's biggest fan. Seriously. Simple as that. I was the biggest fan of the technology. I was like, oh, finally. Could actually utilize cloud storage in a in an in an effective manner.
And then I joined the team here.
But, anyway, that's my story.
We're lucky to have you. And I'm Julie O'Grady. I'm the director of marketing at LucidLink.
And I'm gonna let Rich tell you a little bit more about LucidLink and a little bit more technical detail.
Sure. Let me, share my screen here.
But, yeah. So let me just move everything around here. There you go. So, yeah, to to start off with, the important things to know, like, what, you know, like, what LucidLink is, one, it's a centralized repository. The cloud now, that cloud storage is one hundred percent of the time your single source of truth.
No more, you know, the, you know, the days you remember in the age the ancient I always say the ancient days of the Internet. Right?
You had things things like remember, like, you got mail from, like, AOL and and that. Right? You had all the and and frankly, the same thing with cloud storage, you have all those file sync and share solutions. You know, your drop boxes out there, your boxes, your, you know, the people using storage gateways to do these things. And it's always the issue is I put this stuff up in the cloud and, I gotta sync it locally to work on it.
That's a horrible idea.
With us, one hundred percent of the time, the single source of truth is in the cloud, and that's where you work on it. No different than if it was a local disk.
Picture.
You have a forty gigabyte file.
When it's on your local hard drive, you don't have to read the forty gigabyte file in into memory.
You don't even have forty gigabytes of RAM. Right? Typically.
You just read and write to the tiny little bits of data on demand. That's what you do with LucidLink when that data is in the cloud.
All that is needed is a software client that runs on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS.
That's it. No hardware. No virtual hardware. No. Just install the software client.
This means you edit real time in the cloud.
No more, you know, like, I have a file.
I have to download it before I use it. No. You're not downloading anything anymore. Those days are over.
It's it's over. A file sync and share when you discover LucidLink and you discover the technology that it brings to the table, you realize file sync and share with the cloud, those it's dead. It's it's obsolete technology.
This means you can use you know, like, in the AEC industry, you can use Autodesk, SketchUp, you know, Adobe. So you you just you just the applications you use because it's essentially just a local drive.
That's all that cloud storage is. How secure is it?
Very secure.
Client side encryption.
Never do you create a user ever in a web portal for your LucidLink Filespace.
It's always created in the software client. That means only the client ever has the password to unlock that encryption key to get access to the data.
That means your administrative password, your root password, you can never forget it. We can't even reset it for you.
Does it what we call it, a zero knowledge encryption model.
And then to even you know, the security on that, remember, you wanna protect things. You want an efficient way to protect things. And we we have immutable snapshots. You could define the interval that you wanna do these snapshots. They're immutable. You can't write to them.
So, you know, I remember in twenty nineteen, there was all these stories of these some of the big name companies, that were subject to ransomware attacks.
I always said, Jesus, they're just using LucidLink And and doing and using immutable snapshots, there'd be zero money paid to ransomware.
Zero.
The architecture is fairly simple. There's three components, the LucidLink client, the object storage itself, and then off to the side and not in the data path is a LucidLink server. So you install the LucidLink client on your Windows, Linux, or Mac machine. This does the data compression. This does the encryption, handles the encryption. Right? We also use a local cache as well on their five gigabytes by default expandable to ten terabytes.
That's the LucidLink client. Now here's the key thing to remember. You read and write to the object storage directly. Read and write.
Your data is not being passed through some LucidLink thing in a cloud or anything like that. No. You read and write directly to the cloud, directly to that object storage from your client. Off to the side is Elusive Link service.
Now one of the key things that we do is we extrapolate the metadata from the data.
So sync and share solutions, Right? Even your storage gateways, all these obsolete technologies, what did they do? They synchronized the data from the cloud locally and then you read and wrote to that local appliance or to your machine. Right? Your typical Dropbox, storage appliance type model. Right?
The LucidLink, sir, what we do is we extrapolate the metadata. The only thing we synchronize across all the clients globally is the metadata, not the data.
And then we chop the data up. Right? You know, the old model was one file equals one object.
What we do is one of a file equals many objects. Actually, two hundred and fifty six kilobytes by default. But it's those tiny little blocks that you read and write to on demand.
You don't download an entire file anymore.
The LucidLink service coordinates that metadata so all clients globally, truly globally are up to date as to what's happening in that object storage. But every client globally is reading and writing directly to that object storage.
And then, what does what does this mean?
This is the coolest thing. You have your global name space in the cloud.
It sits up there.
Workers working from their home office connect to it, read and write to it directly.
At the corporate office, people read and write to it directly no matter where it is. From a construction site with that Internet connection, a hotspot on a phone can read and write to that name space or from a VDI setup.
But it's truly a globally accessible name space where every client reads and writes directly to it.
Now I'm gonna stop babbling here. I'm gonna throw it over to Amir here, and he's going to, that Amir and Rattle are gonna show you how it works.
I'm gonna stop sharing.
And, And right before we jump to Amir, I'm gonna do a little, quick poll here.
Excuse me.
So here's our question.
What's your role in your company? I'm just gonna give you a few seconds to answer this.
Got some project managers, director of digital IT. Here we go.
K. Anybody else chiming in?
Five four three two one. Okay. I'm gonna end the poll, and here are the results.
You got it? So we've got, you know, a tie between IT and other. So I'm curious to see what that other is.
But right now, I'm gonna turn it over to Amir, who's gonna tell us a lot about how, TorTagalus found LucidLink and what they were using before and and just the journey that they've gone through with us. So take it away.
Yep. So I'm gonna share out, my screen. Do go through a quick little PowerPoint, just a couple of slides. So let me know if everyone's good to see it.
Yep. But just just wanted to give a little bit, on our company. We're toward the Gallatin Partners. We're architecture, urban design and planning firm.
Our headquarters is in Silver Spring, Maryland where we have offices in, DC, Los Angeles, Philly, Tampa, and a liaison office in Istanbul, Turkey. So, we are spread out, even more so today, much like I'm sure everybody else due to the pandemic and, working remotely.
And, we are really happy to be here to be presenting with, the Lucelyn folks.
So with that, just a little bit about us. We've been in business, six to eight years. You know, we do work all over the nation, and internationally as well.
Constantly, taking on new projects and working on all scales, buildings, and and sizes of projects. And, we definitely like using technology to push our limits and, you know, deliver as greater project as we can.
So this is a little bit kind of more of a traditional setup. Talk about the IT side of things a little bit. Might be boring for some of you non IT folks. But, you know, this is kind of how how office used to be set up, especially in a multi office environment, like we have. You generally have some heavy expense circuits like the MPLS shown here in the middle, that connects everything.
You know, you have your on prem storage, be a NetApp, EMC, whatever, your favorite, physical, storage device to use is. And you got people connecting with some sort of VPN. We're Palo Alto, so we use GlobalProtect. But, this was generally where everything was kept.
It was on prem, you know, not as great to access from home. Though we we started to branch out, you know, we took on Office three sixty five pretty early on in its rollout. So we've been doing SharePoint. We've been doing VDI and Workspot, to give some better access and better tools for remote workers.
And then, obviously, when BIM three sixty came around, it it was definitely a big change for for us to ship projects.
We we definitely still do a ton of projects in BIM three sixty, but you can see everything's kind of its own little silo. Right? Each office kinda have their projects. Their data was kept either, you know, in their location.
As as Rich mentioned earlier, you know, that kind of there wasn't really that kind of syncing to keep, like, active datasets in every location, And, you know, you might have had an outdated set or you'd have to go across the MPLS to grab data from somewhere else, and you're hoping it's the right one. It's the most up to date. And so, you know, as we we kinda transitioned, we began looking at every kind of program we use across the office. So here's kind of a few of them.
So we use pretty much the full Autodesk suite, big Revit shop, AutoCAD, Civil three d, InfraWorks, Navisworks, obviously, Adobe, lots of renderings with Enscape, Lumion, SketchUp, and a big new form of shop currently. And we, we needed to find something that worked with everything because, you know, you can't just leave off half the office when you're looking at a enterprise wide solution.
So we had to really start, to educate ourselves on what's out there, see what was the best fit. And And then we also had to, on top of all that, find out what would best work for people working from home because, you know, we've done that for the last year. And that had to be a big part of the solution to make sure we were in a position to move forward and improve everybody's access because at the end of the day, that's how we, you know, kept projects going. We need people working. So so we we went with this cloud first approach.
You can see, obviously, the the offices look a little different in this setup. We we don't spend that heavy expense on that interoffice connection because there's really nothing that needs to flow between the offices anymore. We have Internet connections at the locations, and now everything, for the most part, is cloud based. We have a couple systems like Nuforma that still sit in one office or another, but, we moved all of our data into the cloud, at least everything we could.
And now all of our data resides where it's highly accessible to everybody, and extremely fast to access. And that's really the big differentiator because you're not going through your Internet connection at the office to get to a big file. You're going through these giant pipes that these cloud storage providers have, and you're not limited because, hey, we have a hundred people working remotely. Our connection's gonna be extra slow for everybody.
So, this also helped us bring in kind of the scatter data where we'd have stuff in, like, SharePoint for one group, and then there might be some project data in one office for another group. Now everybody's looking at the same unique set of data, and that really helped kinda bring it all together.
So with that in mind, I'm going to, stop that screen share for one second, and I'm going to bring up one more thing. So so it it it's fun to talk about, you know, sharing all this, but let me show you kind of kind of the real time. Right? So on my screen, you can see, three Windows Explorer shells open. This is my local machine.
This one in the top right is, on one of our work spot desktops, PDI sitting in Azure, and the one on the left is actually, our server sitting out in our LA office right now. So you can see everybody is looking at the same folder right here, inside LucentLink, and I'm gonna drag and drop a file real quick.
So you saw me load it in. You'll see it pop up on every explorer shell in just a matter of seconds.
This has changed everything from how we can now, build our teams. It's not like that project's in that office, so that office works on it. Everybody can access everything.
You know, you can see it with bigger files. Obviously, this is like a smaller DWG.
We're gonna show a a a quick demo with Revit in just a minute.
But, you know, the beauty of LucidLink is you just have a little application here, shows your connection to the dataset.
You know, obviously, we have a lot of storage, so you can see that we have a lot of storage.
And you can see, you know, up to date how your metadata index is. And this really drives everything for us.
And it's really important to kinda understand what you need to drive when you're looking at a solution like this because, you know, at the end of the day, it needs to work and needs to be seamless.
And, you know, the fact that we're now using cloud storage here, accessible through this app, and we're mapping it to every system we have, be it in Azure, be it in another office, and we make we can just mount it as a mount point looking like literally the exact name name of our old file storage. So links don't break.
We have, you know, new formal working with it, which was an issue with some other systems we're looking at. We have servers being able to read it, you know, depending on their their different things. And it just really brought together everything in one place, and unified all the data across all our offices.
And, you know, when you look at the decision of of doing something like this, obviously, your end user, Rato, who was a big tester for us, is is really the most important player because this is gonna affect them one way or another and really looking to improve that experience. So, with that said, I'm gonna stop my screen share so Rado can show you you him playing in this file, and then I'll I'll do a sync so you can see that Revit works just just well off this. So let me stop this.
Rado, when you're ready, feel free.
Yep. Let's go ahead. Okay. You see my screen?
Yep.
Okay. So we are in the same file. This is basically not a big file. The DGP is using much larger files in real life, but this is the default Autodesk example. And what I wanna do, I just want to make some changes here real quick, you know, copy some some elements and then save it over to central file. This is worksheet file. So maybe I can just select all the instances of the columns, the entire projects, and just copy it over.
And I'm going to save to central real quick just like the regular Revit workflow. And, again, it's sitting on the LucidLink.
I'm gonna save to central.
And we have a files that are over six hundred megabytes, and and saving time to LucidLink is, like, two to three minutes the most.
So it's much faster than it used to be through the regular VPN and other applications. So I'm gonna stop sharing here.
Omer can go ahead.
Just reload.
So then you can see excuse me. I have the same file open. Just, you know, I made my local copy. So I'm gonna reload this.
There we go.
Can see all the changes he made. Just like we're working off, like, our our on prem storage, You know, this this just really simplified everything for us. You know, we I will say we're still big BIM three sixty shop. That's the way for all of our projects.
But, you know, you can't put everything in BIM three sixty. And so, you know, for older projects, for stuff we're doing internally, kind of before we up uploaded to BIM three sixty, we do all our work right off LucidLink, and then we have used that as as as a bridge, especially now with everybody working from home, and it's been incredible to the speed and the responsiveness that we've been able to get out of this product. And, Rad is gonna show up a little bit more because we use a lot more tools than just Revit. So I'm gonna stop my share and let him kinda show you some of the other stuff we've been doing.
Before I show that, one thing I wanna mention, you know, like, when we migrated to Lucid Link, you forgot to mention that fifty terabytes of data that you had to actually brought from the the original servers and see the archives. And we have folders from backups from, like, nineteen ninety.
Right? The the firm used to use microstation j and and v seven, v eight, and there was a very I'm sorry, sophisticated way of of mapping the drives to load the the configuration variables so these programs can even run. And now with LucidLink, actually, we can remap those old network drives and still use the old programs and open up the very old data and and, you know, use those archives. Otherwise, it would not be possible. So this is this is very good benefit of LucidLink. So don't worry about losing your old network structure if you are migrating to to LucidLink.
So I'm I'm going back to share my screen here, and this is not a software tutorial, but I just wanna mention for people who are afraid about, like, a file size. So so the Revit, we showed about Revit. I have a civil three d file opened over here, and what you're looking at is the entire Washington DC base file made out of the GIS twenty nineteen dataset.
And the file size of this drawing is one point three gigabytes.
And it takes three and a half minutes to open and save using LucidLink.
And it has three d contours. It has all the, you know, even street trees and stuff like that. So this is just to show you the amount and how how, you know, great that the time opening is because in the old VPN environment, I was waiting, like, fifteen to twenty minutes to open file like this. And from LucidLink, really, it takes three and a half minutes.
So and also including the the Microsoft Bing auto image geographic behind. So it's it's very flexible, very fast. You know? And we've been using you know, we are we we are an architect, but we are using civil three d because so the advantage because now everything is geolocated, and we are receiving geolocated files from civil engineers and surveyors.
We can do the elevation analysis, slope analysis, and stuff like that, and everything is very, very, very fast for us in in the civil three d environment.
The next example I have over here is the the Infraworks, and this is a two hundred square kilometers of, the land in suburbs Washington, DC. This is Bethesda, Maryland.
And, you know, what I've been using this program for or us been using this for, like, creating the base models for visualizations and renderings and and presentations.
So this this file is over two hun I'm sorry, two point five gigabytes, and it's an SQL database. And, you know, for those of you who are familiar with Infraworks, Infraworks does not have a save button. If something crashes right now on me, it's there. When I open it next time, everything is there because it's constantly saving. So right now, I'm constantly saving the database to Lucid location.
Right? Because this file is running from Lucid location. So it it's amazing how how, you know, fluent and, you know, immediate the response is even with the files like this. So what we've been using this, like, this is a base file, and I can switch to to Lumio, and this is, like, the almost final product where I have, another three gigabytes of data.
I have I have three d trees. I have another buildings added. And, again, it's running from from Lucid. You know, it may be a little bumpy because of the zoom, but this is this is the the file that is actually sitting on on Lucid, and everybody can can launch it from any office around the world.
You know? And I I just wanna mention, like like Omer said, we have we have multiple offices that you see next to my face here, but now we have over hundred and twenty offices. And the other day, I was talking to guy and he needed help, and and he told me that he lives in Portugal and I had no idea. So we have a people who moved around.
So we have a we have a over a hundred and twenty offices, and everybody can actually flounce the same data and and use it the same way. Also, I have Navisworks here opened. This is something that is currently under construction, groundbreaking in Arlington, Virginia. And, you know, for clash detection, I can bring multiple files from multiple sources, and everything is just nice up and running.
This this file opens in less than a minute. It can be saved in less than a minute. So this is about my quick presentation that, for for cat users, LucidLink is actually much faster than that the old practice doing the remote desktop or or VPN connection because everything lives in your computer. And now when Autodesk actually and I'm talking about Autodesk.
Now when you have a user assigned license, you can actually install the program at home because you have a Autodesk ID. So when you log in to LucidLink, you are running directly from your computer. You don't have to VPN or or remote to some other computer. And we do have those work spot machines.
I have two laptops here. One is on Wi Fi and another laptop is on Ethernet, and this is a desktop Ethernet.
And everything is just no hiccups.
The only thing is people need to be careful and and disciplined when LucidLink releases the new update. It's important to run those updates because then it just reconnects the database, But that's the only user involvement that, you know, people need to be aware.
Otherwise, it's just a single click and you see all the drives like you used to and there is no Yep.
No difference.
And and and in regards to the upgrades, you know, obviously, now with everybody work from home, that is something, normally, IT would just run for them. But, you know, we're asking people to just keep up on their updates, which is pretty common right now.
You know, excuse me. The the other thing here that that, you know, we haven't touched on, especially with looking at, like, cloud storage and, you know, some of the others is, file locking is a big deal.
The reason a lot of things don't work with Revit is because the file locking doesn't work, and it can break Revit. It can break the files, and we tested, you know, pretty much every file type. The beauty of LucidLink is you can literally put in every kind of file type you want file locking to engage on, and they will engage into that file type. And so the second someone opens it, the file lock, flag goes up and, you know, it's just like if, you know, it was sitting on your NetApp or your Window share.
The file locking works incredibly well, and it's been, it's been a big asset to us. So, that was one thing that, you know, I was kinda surprised about. I was like, how's just a software solution gonna handle all this? But it really does, and it's kind of incredible.
And so it's it's changed a lot of how we we we're looking for the future, and, you know, this is obviously gonna become a big part of kind of how we look at the hybrid workflow because, you know, when things do settle down, when things get back in the office, hybrid is gonna be the way to go. So, that's we're ready for it. So regardless of where people are working, they're gonna be connected and and good to go.
Thanks, Muir. That's that's great insight. I'm gonna do just a couple more polling questions, and then, we're about ready to open up for questions. I'm sure you have a lot of questions, and these guys are prepared to answer them. So, let me go to, sorry, go to poll number two. Okay.
Here here's a couple questions for you. What's your comfort doing for remote work? Thank you. Omer, you just gave me that, like, great intro when you talked about hybrid. So Yeah. Great time to take a look. And then also on our, a little poll here, we said, is your is your company a cloud first company?
So if you can all take a moment to just respond to these polls, that would be great.
In the meantime, you can think about, some what questions you might have.
K. Give you guys about, five more seconds to see if anybody else wants to answer.
Alrighty. I'm gonna show you the poll results poll results here.
Okay. There's there's, you know, three quarters of you looking at the hybrid approach, and a lot of cloud first companies out there too.
So thank you all for your, opinions.
So right now, I wanna open it up to questions, and I see, we have a few here in the q and a. David asked, how does the DWG file locking work? Have you had any issues with people being in the same file?
I think I'm gonna answer that live.
Yep. Is it okay to go ahead and answer it?
Yes, please.
Oh, okay. Yeah. Like like I mentioned, the file locking is great inside LucidLink.
We actually went through all our file types, when we Radon and I were working on the, the demo, to to what we wanted to set the LucidLink file locking in place for.
So, you know, we pretty much did all of our our standard file types and, DWG is one of them, and there's been no issues of people being able to override or or get into the same file, with that in mind.
So Great.
Great.
So David had another question here. Did you find that users in your offices saw any performance degradation?
They went from opening files on their local file server, which was in your LAN, and now they are communicating with LucidLink through the WAN, question mark?
It's faster through LucidLink.
Yeah. We're we're noticing with a lot of stuff, it's it's either just as fast or faster, because of the the way it breaks down the files, as Rich mentioned. And so, even, you know, right now, our offices are are we're getting ready to renew our ISP, so we are looking to increase in bandwidth. But, we're seeing just as fast, if not faster, performance. And then the added benefit of everybody being out of the office is getting just as fast a performance as if they were sitting here, so it's been a big game changer.
Great.
And we have a couple more questions. Few more questions. I love these. Another one from David. From the demo, it looked like you were using Wasabi. Is that what you're using for production?
Correct. We are using Wasabi as our as our cloud, storage for for this deployment of it.
You know, when we test when we did our demo testing, we did it with Wasabi and we had zero issues.
And so, we we've been live on it with our production, since we set up all of our snapshots like Rich mentioned. I mean, we we have schedules that go up to thirteen years for stuff, and the beauty now is I don't have to worry about my storage running out. It just grows as I need it.
You know, there's a ton of different cloud options you can use this with. So if you're already in with one, you can, you know, bring your provider. But, we've really had no problems with the savvy at all, being our production.
And that's something that, you know, should something happen, we know we can always migrate to another cloud provider because LucidLink has so many partners in that regard.
Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. We do you could bring your own custom storage or you can use one of our cloud providers. We have different options where we actually bundle the cloud service with this as well.
So I'll talk about that a little bit more as, towards the end of the webinar.
I have another question. This is from Sandra. Sandra asked, are you able to map more than OneDrive to the LucidLink storage? Good question.
There's ways to do it. You know, we have it, and I will show this, in let me share my screen real quick to actually answer this one. So so there there's a there's a few ways to do it. So we actually had, because of Nuforma, decided to, make our initial mount.
And when you go into, like, the settings of of LucidLink, you could see this. We made our initial mount and network location. So it looks like, you know, our previous file share. So it looks like the server, and then you see the shares.
But we have also, inside LucidLink, instructed that share to show up as our t drive.
You know, if you wanted multiple drives, there's there's ways to script it to then, you know, add folders to other locations within the dataset.
You know, I don't have it on this computer. But like Rato mentioned, for for our older dataset, we had to have something mapped to the q drive and the p drive. And, we basically done that with a registry key that, basically shows those drives and the students' LucidLink's online. You can you can go into the p and q drive, and and work on it that way.
We did this for specific departments too that may have had a specific drive letter. So, you know, they load LucienLink just like everybody else. They get the t drive and the network mount point right here like we have. And then on on their machines, they have the registry key that also maps maps it as the drive they're used to, so that, for their passing of older files, if they need to reference that drive letter, it's live and active the second least link is.
So, there's definitely ways to do it, and the team's great about whatever your scenario is getting it to work.
And it and it works. I like I said, I I've been using it, and I have a multiple drive letters mapped to the same LucidLink storage.
They point to the different locations for the standard files, for configuration variables, and stuff like that. So it is very helpful.
Great. So, Peter had another questions. Another question. Excuse me. Do you use Sheet Set Manager with Civil three d? Does it work? Does it not break?
Actually, we are receiving Civil files and consultant's files with the Sheet Sets. We are not producing it in house because we are primary Revit office, but, we have never had problems with the sheet sets as far as I know.
And, we actually got the same question coming out of, both David and Sandra. It's about backups. How are you handling backups?
LucidLink has a great mount snapshot feature. We forgot to mention that you can actually go to history. Maybe, Omer, you can mention a little more.
Mhmm. So, I can I can actually share this to, let me share my screen out? But, yes. Basically, when you when you create your file share, you will see, you know, you can set up a schedule for your snapshot management, and this handles pretty much all your backups, and they're immutable as Rich said. So nobody can, cause any damage to your backups. You can grab files from at any point. You can mount them at any point.
We we determined our best schedule. Obviously, with with the AC world, there's, you know, in some jurisdictions, thirteen year compliance. Sometimes it could be longer. So we have a schedule with yearlies, with monthlies, with weeklies, with dailies, with hourlies, and each one's set to keep a certain number, based on our, what we felt was our best snapshot schedule for us, and manage it that way.
You know, if if you're asking for a full dataset backup, I mean, these are these are incredible. Some companies are looking to back up their cloud, so some of that depends on, which cloud provider you're using. And if you're gonna just, like, back up that way, you know, there's ways to do that too. We've been we've been working with the snapshots, and it's been it's been great. So, we've had no issues snapshot management, with access, and so it's really good. And like I said, it's really up to your schedule. So you you dictate what the snapshot schedule is when you create your schedules, and, it's very easy to work with.
That's awesome.
So, I wanna see if we've got any more questions here. Yep. So David said, are the snapshots snapshots accessible to the end users so they can do their own restores?
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Just like I I showed in the in the, in the plan a second ago, that snapshot screen is is available. They can they can mount the snapshots at any point to access them.
And and as the admin side of the house, it's not something we need to worry about them deleting something out of it because, you know, they can drag stuff out. They they can't add anything to it. Like, Rich said, it's it's read only. No one can mess up the snapshots.
So they can go and grab their file and pull it out. It's it's kinda like volume shadow copies in in the Windows world, and they, you know, they you can see the folders. You can go into them and and browse for what you need, so it works really well.
I'd also like to add to that to where, you could assign users specific read only or read write access to folders, to the folders of your choice. With the snapshots, those users still only have access to what you've given them permissions to have access to even on the snapshots.
Mhmm.
Great point. Great point. David's got another question here. A couple questions.
Are you backing up your Wasabi or just relying on snapshots?
At the moment, we're we're, excuse me.
At the moment, we're relying on our snapshots, though that is part of our our next evolution of this, to do, either another data center or something along this line.
Great.
I I will say that we do have some customers, even on, they would they'll they'll, like, replicate.
They'll have a machine set up a lot of times in the cloud, set up, and it'll do the replication from one file space to another file space using rsync or robocopy. Typically, rsync. Right? Set up the Linux machine. It'll do the rsync maybe once every twenty four hours interval to where they can have another file space in a different region, and even from a different provider.
So we do have, people doing that as well.
That's great. We've got a lot of great questions here.
Feel free to ask more questions. What I wanted to remind everybody is Listen. League offers a free fourteen day, trial. And you can check out our basic file space, which is using Wasabi cloud storage. You can use a team or an enterprise file space, which is featuring the IBM cloud storage.
And all these, you can get your whole, team on there and try it for fourteen days, or you can bring your own custom storage.
We support Azure as well, or or any you know, if you're already set up, you're you're all set. So I please, I I really invite you to try us out. And, if you have any other questions and if you want to talk to someone, in more detail, you can always send us an email at info at LucidLink dot com.
And with that, I wanna see if we've got any more questions. This has been an awesome webinar with just loads of good questions.
Amir, do you one more.
You got one more?
Looks like one more one more was asked. Is there any option for collaborative editing, like, three sixty five? So this this is really, like, your file space. Right?
So, you know, the the collaboration tools and things like that are more kinda dependent on the software you're using for your files. So, like, while Revit Revit's really good at collaborating everybody in the same central model, you know, the collaboration in, like, Excel and things like that are really built into the three sixty five cloud. So you really need to be, either on that cloud or, I mean or just using something like track changes in your word documents and then just having people go in after each other. There's not that kinda open to everybody because then you could that that's where you kinda get into the realm of, you know, saving over and overwrites that cause issues.
And, you know, we we really don't wanna break files, and that's why the file locking is important. So, you know, even with our users now, while the file may be stored on, LucidLink storage, we tell them to use the three sixty five sharing for, like, the Excel to get everybody to comment in on because that's what it's built for. Same reason we still use BIM three sixty, or Autodesk Construction Cloud now.
You know, it's built to accelerate Revit to a degree to an an advanced point and share it out with all your clients and consultants. So, you know, there's there's different aspects of this when you talk about the sharing where it's really important to understand who you're sharing with, what you're sharing, and and how to kinda move that forward. And whether, you know, I've seen firms who you who use excuse me, use LucidLink, and they will share out a folder to a client or consultant, and then they will open LucidLink in their office, and they're dropping files to each other that way. That's the way to use it. There's there's a million different ways to use it, and you just need to know your workflows, and and then you can move forward with it that way.
So Terrific.
Lot lot of great questions.
I'll just give you guys a couple more minutes in case you've got anything else you wanna ask.
I wanna just let everybody know on the call that we will have a recording available to you as well. You probably get two emails. One is to just ask to take a quick survey, after this webinar that's gonna come through email. And then once the, file's done rendering, we'll send you out a link. Please feel free to share that.
And, again, if you have any questions, feel free to contact us. We're happy to answer those. And I especially wanna thank, again, one of our favorite customers, Tory, Gallus, and Amir, and Rato, who've done a great job and, of course, Rich. And just as a reminder, this is available not only for architecture.
As you know, it's gonna it it impacts the construction industry, the engineering industry, and Lucidly has a number of clients, in those spaces as well. So we're gonna give you immediate access to your data. Amer can attest to that. And, you can access it like a local drive.
So the the ramp up time, which I don't think we talked about much, is like what did we say it the other day? We just turn it on?
What what did we say? I mean, the the time, obviously, to get this all set up was, I don't know, Rich. We did it in five minutes on a phone call. And then pretty much and then it's just, you know, dragging and dropping your data, getting it in into the client and into the cloud storage. So that time frame is gonna depend on how much data you're moving and and what you're you're doing with that data. Looks like there is one other question, Julie.
Okay.
How many users? Oh.
I believe we're we're right around a hundred twenty, users, using it, you know, pretty much everyone from home remotely either, you know, on VDI and Azure or, you know, a company issued machines. So everyone.
And, again, from the user's point of view from the user's point of view, you don't really notice that you are on that LucidLink because you are just accessing a drive later. You don't know if it's a LucidLink or if it's local, if it's a server or something. So it's there is absolutely no difference. So it takes some time first time when you have to index all the files, but every day when you log in, it actually takes couple minutes, maybe two minutes to sort of index all the changes done over because, like, Omer mentioned hundred and twenty people, different kind you know, states, countries, and continents these days. It is very, very fluent and smooth.
So yeah.
So from a user's perspective, you're just accessing things like a local drive so that the learning curve is Yes. Never Exactly.
Just like you're used to. Yeah.
Yeah. We made it same drive letter, same network path, same you know, so, everything would just work once once we said, okay, we're turning off our network storage. And, I mean, we literally got rid of all our network storage for the most part, and and migrated everything, and and it's changed everything.
So Yeah.
So do we have any more questions?
I don't think so. This has been an awesome webinar. Again, thank you all for attending.
Thank you for your time. We're happy to answer any additional questions. Sign up for a free trial. Rich does demos on, Thursdays. So if you want to sign up, you can sign up under webinars.
But, again, let's just hop on a call, and get you started. So, thank you again, and have a great rest of your week, everyone.
Take care.
Thank you, Julie. Thank you.
Alrighty. Bye bye.
Bye. Bye.
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