Robert Barnes

January 5, 2018January 5, 2018

Host your own secure multi-cloud service using the Storage Made Easy File Fabric

We have been asked many times about enabling personal users to host access to their own federated cloud of public/private data and in the past we have given access to earlier versions of our software to do just this, and today we bring that up to date for personal users with our latest File Fabric release that can be used for self hosting.

Why would you want to do this? There are a number of reasons: Continue reading “Host your own secure multi-cloud service using the Storage Made Easy File Fabric”

August 30, 2017August 31, 2017

File Fabric integration with external Vault Key Server by HashiCorp (Part 2)

Welcome to Part 2 of our File Fabric integration with Vault by HashiCorp blog. In part 1, we discussed the benefits of integrating your Storage Made Easy appliance with your Vault instance as well as a walk through of setting up the integration between vault and File Fabric. In this follow-up blog we will look at some use cases and also demonstrate how to setup your Vault instance ready for integration with your Enterprise File Fabric.

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July 14, 2017April 23, 2021

File Fabric integration with external Vault Key Server by HashiCorp (Part 1)

The primary purpose of the File Fabric encryption feature is to protect a users/companies files on local and remote storage resources, such as Object Storage, Dropbox, Google Drive etc, and to achieve this in an easy and seamless manner.

When files are encrypted in by the File Fabric, users cannot access or share them directly from the storage service. The files need to be accessed through the File Fabric web or app clients because the key to decrypt the data is stored, encrypted, on the File Fabric server instance.

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