Drive Bender Release Schedule

Division-M the company behind the DE replacement add-in Drive Bender have just released their release schedule. And its good to see that by early June the add-in will be released in its final form:

In between beta releases there will be updates releases as deemed necessary.

Beta 1 – 2011/02/21

• Initial release of core service and drives.
• Drive Bender Manager.
• Create pool functionality.
• Create network and drive letter mount points.

Beta 2 – 2011/03/21

• Drive Bender WHS addin.
• Add drive to pool functionality.
• Remove drive from pool functionality.
• Merge drive into pool functionality.
• Folder level duplication.

Beta 3 – Mid May 2011

• WHS shared folder support.
• WHS media streaming support.
• WHS remote access support.
• WHS addin – share and pool management integrated into the storage tab of dashboard.
• Full file / folder security support (including WHS management).
• Full action list support.
• Refresh of walk through documentation.

RC1 – Late May 2011

• Read / write performance enhancements.
• WHS health addin support.
• User definable data balancing (i.e. the business rules used to determine where data resides within the pool).
• Improved client / server interaction (this is mostly to do with task feedback in the existing client applications (such as the Manager and WHS addin).
• German language support. **
• Enhanced documentation.

RC2 – Early June, 2011

• Changes / updates as required.

Release – Late June 2011

• Down the pub…

** Indicates that the feature may be pulled or moved to a different milestone release.

More details on Drive Bender are available from here.

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