Pertino

Services and applications continually move to the cloud; so why not networking? Pertino allows you to create an on-the-fly network in the cloud. You can add to your network devices you use everyday such as file servers, computers, printers, and fax machines. Then invite others users to connect to the network and share these devices no matter where you, the devices or invited users are located. Pertino is an example of the emerging Networking-as-a-Service (NaaS) trend, and it's targeted at the smaller end of the small and mid-sized business market. Pertino's sweet spot is that it could eliminate the need for SMBs to invest in traditional networking hardware or hire someone to manage a network.

Innovative and easy-to-use for non-networking gurus, Pertino?currently available in Limited Release? has a lot of promising benefits for the SMB and is an exciting development in Networking-as-a-Service, However,? this still nascent solution needs some feature enhancements and is best suited for those with lighter networking needs.

What It Does
Once your Pertino network is created, you can add servers and computers to your network and invite others on the network. Those other users can also add their own devices. Such a network, allows all individuals to share files off of each other's devices and also remote desktop to machines within the created network.

What's great about adding devices is that they do not have to be physical devices. I was easily able to add a Hyper-V virtual machine to my network. For those who have cloud servers created in hosted platforms like Rackspace, 8x8, or Amazon EC2, those server instances can be added to a Pertino network, as well.

For security, the service uses 256-bit encryption for data protection. Pertino's file and desktop sharing is integrated tightly with the Windows operating system, so you are using the local folder permissions in Windows. You can only access files in remote device's folders that are shared in Windows and you must have network discovery enabled on all machines. Remote Desktop also has to be enabled on every machine you want to remotely access. For sharing files and remotely connecting, a user has to have the local Windows login credentials to the machine he or she wants to access files from or remote desktop into.

For ease-of-use, Pertino's service leverages Windows' inherent functionality: customers use Windows' Remote Desktop Service for remote access and use Windows Explorer to access folder shares. If you are familiar with Windows tasks such as enabling remote desktop sessions, or setting up folder shares, you will have no problem with configuring Windows properly to work within your Pertino network. Mac users and others not as familiar with Windows settings may be a bit confused by what is required to configure within the Windows operating system. Luckily, Pertino's website features videos that walk you through the needed steps to share files and use remote desktop.

Subscribing and Pricing
Pertino's subscription model begins with a free Personal plan that allows customers to build a cloud network with up to three members with three devices each. This level of subscription is not only targeted to small businesses, but a family for example, could build a network for sharing photos and files or remotely troubleshooting another family member's machine.

From there, pricing is $10 per month, per user as networking needs increase.

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