The Enterprise Storage Podcast | Storage Masters S2 – E1: Benefits of using the Cloud for Scale Out NAS. A chat with Nasuni CTO Andres Rodriguez

The Enterprise Storage Podcast is back with a new season of Storage Masters!

For the first episode of season 2, Andres Rodriguez, CTO at Nasuni, and Jim Liddle, CEO at SME, discuss the challenges of adapting to a new data ecosystem in which companies want REST API access to data, but there’s still a lot of on-premises end users storage that require more traditional protocols.

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Customer Case Study: Improving Workflows and Collaboration for Asia United Bank with the Enterprise File Fabric and Cloudian Object Storage

AUB is a publicly-listed universal bank that has been in operation for 23 years, joining the ranks of Forbes-listed companies and an illustrious league of Philippine banks.

As part of its commitment to continuously improve its services, the Bank undertook a revision of systems, including enhancing data accessibility for end users, coupled with disaster recovery. They found the solution for this with the combination of Storage Made Easy’s (SME) Enterprise File Fabric and Object Storage from Cloudian.

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LucidLink Technology Preview Setup Guide

In our “The features and benefits of using LucidLink with the Enterprise File Fabric” last blog post we outlined the features and benefit of using LucidLink with the File Fabric.   We have made available this integration to the Enterprise File Fabric as a technology preview.  The following instructions outline the adding of a  File Fabric ‘Filesystem’ Provider connected to one or more filespaces.

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The features and benefits of using LucidLink with the Enterprise File Fabric

LucidLink is a “Cloud NAS” endpoint delivered as a SaaS solution.  The Enterprise File Fabric provides storage aggregation, permissions, auditing, sharing and data movement for over 60+ storage platforms and providers.  The combination of LucidLink and the Enterprise File Fabric creates a storage solution which can be considered greater than the sum of its parts. Continue reading “The features and benefits of using LucidLink with the Enterprise File Fabric”

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CISO Bulletin: Two Factor Authentication for any Storage using the Enterprise File Fabric™

With so many employees working from home, organizations are looking for ways to enhance the security of their data, often spread between on-premises and cloud data stores, without compromising employee productivity and to comply with cyber insurance policies that may be, being added or renewed.

For enterprises using the Enterprise File Fabric™ , activating Two Factor Authentication (2FA) is an easy way to enhance access security on resources such as remote SMB/file and Object Storage with minimum disruption for end users.

 

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Top 5 Multi-Cloud Data Governance Recommendations

File Fabric Data GovernancePost pandemic has resulted in a surge of cloud adoption with many companies now operating a hybrid mix and match approach to corporate data to fit in with new digital transformation approaches that encompass hybrid or remote workers.

Whereas a hybrid multi-cloud approach is best for flexibility and ROI it can increase the threat surface of data so it is key to adopt a unified policy based approach to data governance and compliance. Below are 5 key recommendations for multi-cloud data governance:

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Using Storage Made Easy File Fabric with Exoscale Object Storage

Exoscale is a Swiss-based cloud services platform providing hosting and infrastructure services, including storage, throughout central Europe. This article walks through adding Exoscale object storage to the Enterprise File Fabric. For information on launching the Enterprise File Fabric from on the Exoscale cloud platform itself see Getting Started with Exoscale.

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Customer Case Study: Providing Secure End User Access, Object Storage File Services, Governance and Compliance for a Top Tier Financial Services Firm

A global financial services firm was facing two critical challenges. First, a portfolio risk management application was working off a local server, which was a single point of failure. Secondly, the permission structure implemented was inadequate given the sensitivity of the data.

In our latest case study we show how the adoption of the Enterprise File Fabric provided secure end user File access to Cloudian Hyperstore ObjectStorage whilst maintaining Data Governance and Data Compliance.

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GDPR Checklist for 2021

Today, almost every aspect of our lives revolves around and is influenced by data. Various entities collect, analyse, and, more importantly, store our personal data, such as our names, home and IP addresses, and credit card numbers. This phenomenon was further confirmed by the 2020 UK Business Data Survey, which showed that 81% of businesses handle digitised personal and non-personal data from employees and customers alike. As these businesses expand, the use of data increases as well.

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