See how Shade stacks up against myQNAPCloud and why Shade is more scalable for teams and individuals alike
Key takeaways
Individual vs Team
Shade offers robust security and permission controls with advanced encryption and compliance measures. It’s designed for teams, not individuals. we streamline management of permissions from subfolders to drives, including easy collaboration via ShadeFS's mounting and web sharing features. This ensures fast and secure delivery of assets for both internal and external teams. `
Ease of Use
Shade takes less than 5 minutes to setup, allowing any type of user to easily get onboarded and start using the platform. It doesn’t call for complex configurations and is super intuitive.
Third-Party That Brokers Access
QNAPCloud if it gets hacked, your NAS gets hacked. It is a third-party that brokers access to your NAS, which is a tradeoff as now there is another access point to your NAS. Keeping everything local and within your reach is vital. Shade allows for a hybrid solution so you can feel comfortable bringing your NAS, hardware, or cloud provider into Shade.
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Use Something that Scales with Your Team
Using myQNAPCloud for your daily workflows is not sustainable and difficult to configure and set up. Not only does it have large setup constraints and require lengthy configurations, but it does not offer the full capabilities that every party (IT managers, creative directors, editors) in your team needs.
Shade bridges the gap between a technically mature solution and a user experience designed for creative tools and teams to work with their files, find exactly what they need, and share files without having to bother IT. QuickConnect can be used for small teams, but as your team grows, you will need to find a more complete and seamless solution like Shade.
Shade also provides multimodal AI search that allows you to quickly sift through millions of images to find the perfect shot that you need, so you never lose an asset again.
User Experience & Journeys Matter
Investing in the customer is important and understanding their pain points is even more relevant. myQNAPCloud is an outdated tool with poor UI that requires many steps to work.
Shade is designed to be used across the team internally and externally. With Shade-published links, you can quickly deliver the last mile to clients, ask for feedback, and more. External collaborators also receive great experiences via ShadeFS’s mounting and web sharing.
Security & Permission Management
QNAP Software is half-baked and does not have a complete set of permissions. This creates many stakeholders gaining access to your data and greater risk for security risks. The more we share files via multiple software, the more we lose track of who has access to what.
With Shade, your data is unified in one pane of glass because it works in a hybrid environment so that all of your data, no matter where it is, is hosted locally, on-prem, or in the cloud. Being in control of your data really matters. That’s why Shade lets you sync your permission management once, and all of your downstream files (internal and external) can be securely managed with one solution.
