Providing an Enterprise File Share and Sync Solution for SoftLayer

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Storage Made Easy Providing an Enterprise File Share and Sync Solution for

SoftLayer Object Storage

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STORAGE MADE EASY FOR SOFTLAYER


The Storage Made Easy (SME) Cloud File Server is a comprehensive Enterprise File

Synchronization and Sharing (EFSS) solution built on top of the SME revolutionary Cloud

Control Gateway.

The SME EFSS Cloud Control Gateway allows IT to control access to SoftLayer and

transform it into a ‘Drop Box’ style solution. The SME Cloud File Server layers

Collaboration, Synchronization, Governance, BYOD, Audit, Security, Encryption, Back-up

and migration capabilities on top of SoftLayer to give organizations an enterprise grade

EFSS solution.

Storage Made Easy Enterprise File Share and Sync Solution for SoftLayer Object Storage


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SoftLayer, is an IBM Company, which provides cloud infrastructure as a service from a

growing number of data centers and network points of presence around the world, and

which offers an OpenStack compliant object storage solution.

New legislation coupled with privacy concerns means that companies want an easy way

to know ‘who’ has access to data that is stored remotely, ’when’ they had access, and

‘what’ they did. To this SME extends the use of SoftLayer in 5 critical areas:

1. Enabling sensitive data to be encrypted with a private key prior to being stored

on SoftLayer. The private key is then needed before the file can be retrieved and

viewed.

2. Enabling share data to have file sharing policies in which, for example, a

password has to be assigned and / or links are set to be time expired.

This feature can work not only from the web but also with an Add-In integration directly

in Microsoft Outlook. A similar add-in integration for Mac users that use SoftLayer

extends Mac Mail or Mac Outlook with similar controls to the Outlook Add-In.

Use SoftLayer Object Storage with secure audited controls


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3. Full file event auditing is provided to enable companies to have complete audit

logs for all file events including remote file IP’s etc of users who downloaded

documents and users who shared documents and controls to set GEO location

restrictions. This can also be configured to output in syslog format to work with

solutions such as Splunk and other log aggregators.

4. Enabling key data to be backed up to SoftLayer easily.

This provides a mechanism to backup files to other Softlayer or to backup Softlayer

files in one region to another.



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5. Audit Watch

Cloud administrators can set up an Audit Watch on files which enables them to be

informed in real time of any file activity on any file or combination of files, or even a

folder, that is stored on SoftLayer. Once the designated file event takes place the

administrator will receive an alert informing them of the event and which user invoked

the event.

This can be extremely useful to keep informed of file access, changes, sharing or

downloads on any type of file.



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SoftLayer does not support WebDav, FTP, or SFTP by default but Storage Made Easy adds

these features making it easy to interact with SoftLayer or share data using common

protocols.

As an example an ISP uses Storage Made Easy with Softlayer for its customers and

backs up data from one Softlayer region to another.

Access SoftLayer Object Storage from any Protocol


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The Storage Made Easy Web Drives for Mac, Windows and Linux are a great opportunity

to extend access to SoftLayer directly into a users desktop. Drive mapping can also be

configured using scripts and can be a replacement for existing network drive access.

SoftLayer Accessible from native Drives in Windows and Mac

CIFS Drive Access into SoftLayer Object Storage from any desktop


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Secure links to SoftLayer files can be done directly from Microsoft Outlook and Mac Mail,

or new files can be uploaded from the desktop directly to SoftLayer and shared as a link.

All such files shared in this manner are audited and can be password protected and time

expired.

Email integration with SoftLayer Object Storage from Outlook / Mac Mail


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SoftLayer files and private data shares (CIFS / NFS / NAS / SAN) can be united in a

single interface for anywhere access through desktop cloud drives and mobile devices.

Although Storage Made Easy functions as a Cloud Gateway companies can still take

advantage of uploading files direct to SoftLayer as the Gateway will ‘discover’ and index

these files on demand. Also note that no files are stored on the Gateway. It does not

replicate data, it indexes data about the files including location to download.

Unify SoftLayer Object Storage files and private data

Access files and local files shares in a unified interface from inside or

outside the corporate firewall


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SoftLayer can end up storing a lot of structured documents such as Word, Powerpoint,

Excel, and PDF files. As part of the Storage Made Easy solution a Cloud Content

Connector can be used that indexes data remotely stored on SoftLayer so that file

searches can be conducted on content.

iPhone Search Example:

Search document content on files stored on SoftLayer Object Storage


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The Storage Made Easy Solution is fully brandable, from the web client through to the

desktop and mobile Apps.

For ISP and OEM partners this means the solution can be fully integrated into a product

offering, and for direct corporate use it means that the product can be aligned with a

strong corporate brand identity.

Fully Brandable


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Providing an Enterprise File Share and Sync Solution for SoftLayer