Software provider Stardraw.com has launched what it plans to be first of many planned cloud services to support and extend its design and documentation of integrated systems.

This initial service supports the latest software design and documentation package, Stardraw Design 7, and automatically synchronises all User Defined Products (UDPs) across all the computers used to run the application.

Stardraw Design 7 features extensive libraries of product data – more than 55,000 symbols representing products from more than 600 manufacturers. In addition, users can create their own data with the User Defined Product Wizard. One of the challenges the company has identified is that users frequently have Stardraw Design 7 installed on more than one computer – perhaps one (or more) in the office, one at home, and possibly a laptop. Once activated, the Synchronize UDP service will automatically upload custom product data to the cloud where it is stored and backed up on three servers in each of two geographical locations (six copies in total). Each time a user logs into Stardraw Design 7, the local UDP database will be synchronised against personal UDP data held in secure storage in the cloud; new and more recent UDPs on a local machine will be uploaded to a personal cloud storage account, and new and more recent UDPS in cloud storage will be downloaded and merged into the UDP database on the local machine. This provides full access to all of current UDPs on any user computer.

Further, the service is infinitely scalable, so there is no limit to the number or size of UDPs that can be stored online, and no limit on the number of computers that can be synchronised.

The service is available to all users of Stardraw Design 7 with a current subscription, and anyone evaluating the Stardraw Design 7 demo.

‘There is a seismic shift going on in our industry in how software is developed and delivered,’ says Stardraw.com CEO, David Snipp. ‘The scalability, elasticity, reliability and low cost benefits of “the cloud” result in new and exciting opportunities for people to collaborate, share and communicate. No longer do you email large attachments or pray that your 2Tb hard disk drive doesn’t fail before your presentation. Your valuable data is automatically backed up and available 24/7 without you having to do a thing. Nothing could be easier. We have been evangelizing the benefits of this technology for some time now and it’s gratifying to deliver our first true, scalable cloud service.

‘Synchronize UDP is the first cloud service from Stardraw.com and is a great stride forward in itself, but it barely scratches the surface of what we are capable of delivering. Our customers can expect to see many, many more Cloud-based services from us in the months to come.’

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