Enterprise File Fabric™
As smartphone devices become more sophisticated and are built to retain and interact with all our personal /company digital information the more it makes sense to ensure that they are properly secured.
To that end below are 5 not so well known Apps, in no particular order, that you can use to achieve this:
Continue reading “5 not so well known Apps to secure and protect your Android device in 2020”
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My name is Erik, I work as Director of Engineering, Storage Made Easy in the US. I want to share my favorite File Fabric feature with you. Some day’s life gets hectic, and it is not just work I am talking about. As you can use all SME features in a personal account, this post will focus on enterprise deployments.
As an IT department, it is hard to respond to every demand. First the users, there is some combination of “access anywhere”, “BYOD”, “VPN free”, “faster”, “bigger”, etc. Then as a manager your requirements are something like this: Continue reading “My Favourite Feature: The File Fabric Client Ecosystem”
by Today we released a new standalone Android App for S3 compatible Cloud Storage called S3 Xplorer and available from the Google Play Store.
Features include:
– Works with multiple S3 compatible cloud accounts
– Create, browse, delete buckets / folders
– Upload / download files
– Open files directly in other Apps
– Copy / Move files
– Share files with expiry
– Set a pin lock
Continue reading “S3 Xplorer a free Android App for S3 compatible Cloud Storage”
by We recently released a new version of the Storage Made Easy Android Application, the Android client for the SME Enterprise File Share and Sync Fabric.
One of the new features in the updated App was to provide the ability to View, edit and create Microsoft Office files directly from the data stores configured for the SME Sync and Share Appliance.
To be able to do this firstly ensure that you have installed the SME Cloud File Manager from the Android App Store.
by This blog post title may seem a little strange given that Storage Made Easy promotes the use of secure cloud file share and sync but we understand that there are times when you simply want to bulk move files directly from a laptop or PC to be able to access them on the move.
A little know feature of the free SME iOS and Android Apps is that they have the ability to turn themselves into an FTP Server which can be wirelessly connected to from an FTP client on the same network.
This allows files to be easily uploaded to the App in Bulk on each device.
From a security viewpoint you will still want to secure the files in the event you lost the device or the device is stolen.
On iOS the SME App can be protected by a pin, and the forthcoming release supplemented by fingerprint Touch ID for devices that support it. Also If you turn on the device password for the iOS device then the SME App takes advantage of the encryption features build into iOS and all files are encrypted when the device is ‘locked’ or “at rest”.
On Android the SME App can also be protected by a pin but for additional security users should consider encrypting their device storage. You can read an article now how to do that here.
by We’ve updated our Android App on Google Play.
New features include strengthening of team features for mobile workforces on the move, that includes mobile file lock/unlock for when teams edit files on the move.
Other changes are the strengthening of local file preview for images (images now have small icon that shows the image) and support viewing / editing iOS .plist file and viewing of .webarchive files.
The App continues to be free and can be used with Free, Personal and business plan. For Service Providers and corporates it possible for it be custom branded with corporate logo / colours etc when purchasing an on-premise appliance subscription.
by As part of our rebrand, we are doing some work on re-branding all our clients. We thought that we would give you a sneak peak of the Android App – screenshots below:
We hope you like it. As with the current Android App it will work with SmartPhones and Tablets and a similar branding theme will be rolled our amongst all SME Access Clients.
by We have updated our Android Cloud File Manager application today in Google Play and on our site. The new version adds supports for:
– iCloud
– Google Drive
– BaseCamp
– Office365
It also features a dedicated settings section where the various App settings are now consolidated. The App also now supports copy and paste between Clouds, an often requested feature.
For a brief overview please check out the video below:
by For over 2 years now we have had the Public Files page. When users sets a file public from any of the 35+ information Clouds they have mapped to their account then it is displayed on this public files page. Users have always been able to make such files password protected by encrypting the files on upload through our platform, but we have had feedback that what users really wanted was the ability to have any files on this page password protected, whether they were uploaded as encrypted files or not.
We’ve now added this change to the service. To take advantage of it all that needs to be done is to assign a password to the public files page from your Cloud DashBoard after login to the web. This can be set under the “extended options” section (at the bottom of the DashBoard).
Setting files to be public is easy, just right click on the file from the web and choose to make the file public:
Other desktop and mobile clients also enable files to be set as public, as in the Android example below:
Once files are set public they appear on the public files page that each user account has:
These files are also available as an RSS feed that can added to the foot of an email for example, or as a an iPhone App:
Once a file is then accessed when public file sharing is turned on then the user is redirected to a password page when they try to access any file from the public files page:
This feature works across files from any Cloud and indeed Cloud Files from different clouds can be shared and protected from the same page in this way.
Business Cloud File Server users can take advantage of this or turn off file sharing completely for their users.
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A user Steve shared with us that he uses the iSMEStorage iPad App to share files with his android device. He turns on the iSMEStorage FTP Server and then connects using FTP Cafe from the Android (same Wi Fi network a pre-requisite).
We tried it, and it works great.
by We’ve updated our Android App to version 2.1 The 2.1 update is a substantial update that beefs up the features for local transfer of files from PC’s and laptops. Now users can transfer files directly from their PC over WiFi using FTP clients or a browser. This makes very easy to take files with you that you have stored locally.
The update also adds a scheduler for automation of the synchronisation of files to/from the device and one or more storage clouds. This was a must requested feature from users so we’ve managed to get it into this build.
The third major part of the update is better integration with the Android Operating System so that all upload, download, and file event notifications are visible in the Android notification taskbar.
The tighter integration with the Android OS means that you can now take advantage of SMEStorage Cloud File Manager from many other applications. This is one of the particular strengths of the Android, as is the great notification features, and we are pleased to now be taking fill advantage of these.
This tighter integration means that all downloads and uploads are now processes as tasks that show up in the Android notification bar and the users do not need to stay in the Application for the uploads or downloads to complete
SMEStorage is available from the Google Android Marketplace at:
https://market.android.com/details?id=ta.smestorageg
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We have updated our Android SMEStorage Cloud File Manager on the Google Android Marketplace to version 1.7. This new release has the following changes:
– Enabled Notes to be emailed as attachments
– Accessing notes changed to a double tap
– Added support for HTTPS on login (https is slower)
– Added support to upload any file from phone to storage cloud chosen
– Added support for icloud, safesync & Sharepoint clouds. SharePoint can only be used by SMEStorage business accounts.
The next release will feature HTTP / FTP support for local file upload over Wi Fi and also sync from ‘cloud to phone’ / ‘phone to cloud’ scheduling, a much requested feature.
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