Dedicated OpenStack Swift Windows Drive now available

Post Updated October 6th 2016

We now have plenty of companies and ISP’s who are using our full Enterprise File Share and Sync solution for OpenStack but we have long been approached by companies asking if they could have just the drive piece of our functionality available that works in a dedicated fashion outside of our full EFSS solution.

To that end we are pleased to announce the release of a dedicated OpenStack Windows CIFS Drive that is a standalone installer that works directly with OpenStack Swift instances.

Install is simple:

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SME adds S3 compatible API access for many clouds including Google Docs, Google Storage, RackSpace + more

We’re happy to roll out support for another API that is becoming ubiquitous. In this case it is the Amazon S3 API. This is already used in solutions such as Eucalyptus Walrus, and we have now also added it as entry point for files accessed through our Cloud Gateway.

What does this mean ? It means you can use the S3 compatible API to access your files on Google Docs, or Google Storage, or RackSpace Cloud Files, or MIcrosoft SkyDrive, or any of the many other Clouds that we support.

For those interested, moving from a file based structure to a flat file object structure was achieved using the depth first algorithm within the implementation mapping to our API.

Lets look at a practical implementation of this using a tool that supports S3 compatible endpoints, CloudBerry explorer. We’ll use this to access our Google Docs, although we could have chosen DropBox, or any other number of clouds to access.

After launching the free version of CloudBerry explorer Choose File-Walrus Accounts

Choose to add an account and fill in the endpoint as ‘s3.storagemadeeasy.com’ and the QueryID as your SME username. You can obtain the API key from logging into the SME website and going to “My Account” from the sidebar and copying the API key from where it says “API secret Key”

Now you can choose to access the service using the CloudBerry exlorer:

and you can browse, download, upload files:

You can find out more on the SME Wiki

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