Building upon Storage Made Easy’s Seamless Unification for Private and Public Clouds
PRLog - Sep. 16, 2014 - LONDON, U.K. -- Storage Made Easy today announced they had strengthened the OpenStack Swift features for their Enterprise File Share and Sync Solution with their SwiftStack partnership.
SwiftStack provides enterprise customers with a software-defined storage platform, powered by the OpenStack Swift object storage engine. As the number one contributors to Swift, SwiftStack ensures that both the Swift architecture is durable and massively scalable, and through the SwiftStack platform, provides seamless integration with existing enterprise systems, and simplicity in deploying, scaling and managing an OpenStack Swift architecture. Partnering with Storage Made Easy’s EFSS Cloud Control product ensures enterprise customers seamless integration with File Sync and Share.
Other key features that will help ensure a seamless integration for customers include, support for IceHouse, OpenStack’s latest distribution, deeper core OpenStack integration such as Dynamic Large Object, have been added.
As well as adding an Enterprise File Sync and Share solution to OpenStack Swift through the SwiftStack software defined controller, Storage Made Easy adds a protocol gateway which can expose access to Swift data over FTP / WebDav / SFTP and an Amazon S3 compatible API. Audit and governance features which include business level auditing of files that can be exposed in an excel format or integrated with Business Activity Monitoring Systems in Syslog format are also a core part of the solution offering.
Jim Liddle, Storage Made Easy CEO said, “OpenStack is an important platform for our Enterprise File Share and Sync Solution. We already have a number of customers and Internet Service Providers using it with our EFSS solution. Providing a deeper integration to take advantage of current and forthcoming Swift features to make it easy for our customers and prospects to use them makes perfect sense.”
Jim added, “We are very excited about our partnership with SwiftStack. SwiftStack ensures customers have seamless integration with File Sync and Share on OpenStack Swift, and the ease in management required for enterprise customers.”
Joe Arnold, Founder and CEO of SwiftStack said, “We are thrilled to have certified Storage Made Easy on SwiftStack. This partnership makes it simple for enterprise customers to leverage the OpenStack Swift object storage engine integrated with File Sync and Share.”
About Storage Made Easy:
Storage Made Easy is the trading name of Vehera LTD which has offices in the UK, USA and Switzerland. The SME solution allows IT to regain control of “cloud datasprawl” by unifying private/public company data and privately used employee cloud data solutions into a single converged infrastructure.
This can easily be managed and be used to set and enforce governance and audit controls for file access and sharing in addition to providing deep content search of indexed data. This approach provided a solution to the “shadow IT” conundrum and makes it possible for companies to find a balance between the protection of corporate data and employee data by allowing businesses to monitor, secure and audit all data silos, be they private or cloud or company or employee, from a single access point.
Further information can be found at www.StorageMadeEasy.com
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Storage Made Easy aligns with SwiftStack to expand Sync and Share integration with OpenStack Swift
September 16, 2014 at 08:00 AM EDT
