Enterprise File Fabric™
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.
Continue reading “Using Storage Made Easy File Fabric with Exoscale Object Storage”
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Many IT teams at medical organisations are looking to modernise their IT infrastructure and manage growing costs by moving to either on-prem cloud, hybrid cloud or multi-cloud.
Cloudian Hyperstore provides a world class object storage solution for these organisations but many are often unsure about how to provide end users access to their data in a safe and secure manner that is able to be fully audited and compliant. That’s where Storage Made Easy’s File Fabric comes in.
Continue reading “Technology Demo | The Enterprise File Fabric for Healthcare Organisations w/Cloudian”
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We are very excited to announce The Enterprise Storage Podcast is now live!
We are living in a data world, overwhelming and sometimes confusing. Making company’s data easily accessible, wherever it may be stored, is our main claim. Through this podcast you will learn the ins and outs, the nuts and bolts, the tips and tricks to make data management easy.
Continue reading “Introducing our new podcast: The Enterprise Storage Podcast by Storage Made Easy”
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As pre sales engineers there are often times when we need to enable a prospect or customer to connect to the Enterprise File Fabric based on their specific infrastructure and requirements, often impacted by security and architectural topologies.
Recently I had to enable a customer to be able to synchronise local data from a windows server. Normally I would install the File Fabric’s sync app for Windows but there was a security requirement that meant no new software could be installed on this server, it was locked down.
Continue reading “Using WinSCP to sync data to Amazon S3, Azure Blob and other Storage clouds over SFTP”
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The Storage Made Easy Enterprise File Fabric™ platform now supports Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage as a first-class storage provider. It’s been one of our most requested storage providers. Many organizations are already using Backblaze for cloud backup and want other data and workflows to take advantage of low cost cloud storage.
This blog walks through setting up a Backblaze B2 provider, highlighting some of the nifty features as well as nuances and recommended settings.
Continue reading “Storage Made Easy Adds Support for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage”
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The Enterprise File Fabric is often used with Object Storage solutions, particularly Amazon S3 but also S3 compatible object solutions that may be deployed on-premises.
More and more unstructured data stored on S3 object systems is not always just a backup or archive and there is increasingly a requirement to provide real-time access to unstructured data to end users.
Continue reading “How to Optimize S3 and S3 Compatible Object Storage Solutions for End User Access with Hundreds of Millions of Files”
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Organizations working with media assets often have a requirement to validate a file’s integrity.
Whether it is to detect if any corruption has occurred, through to establishing the security of a file transfer or ensuring that a file is fully formed, the Enterprise File Fabric is equipped to easily deal with media asset validation integrity.
Continue reading “Media Focus: Validating Media Asset Integrity”
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During the OpenStack Summit in Berlin, James Norman, Engineering Manager at SME, presented a live demo on:
How to transfer assets between storage tiers quickly and efficiently?
How to archive data onto Object as part of our existing workflows?
How to distribute content stored on Object Storage securely?
The official videos from the event have not been posted yet but you can catch a video from James presenting this below:
The File Fabric has lots of hidden cool features that are very powerful and as a part of a new series of posts on File Fabric features we are going to kick off with a feature called ‘FileBox’.
FileBox is a feature that enables files to be emailed, from any standard email client, directly into any FileBox nominated folder, or shared team folder.
Continue reading “File Fabric Feature Focus – Collaborating on the move using FileBox”
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The Amazon S3 API has become the de-facto standard for object storage API access. As such, many software products adopt the S3 API first. The Storage Made Easy File Fabric provides an S3 compatible API endpoint for any storage backend. This means that non-S3 storage providers such as Dropbox, Azure, Google Drive, OneDrive, Sharepoint and others can now be accessed via the S3 API.
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Command Line Interface (CLI) is a command line tool for accessing AWS compatible services. AWS CLI is one of the most feature rich S3 tools publicly available (Free!!!) .
This article will outline the setup AWS CLI with the SME File Fabric and non-S3 compatible storage providers.
Continue reading “How to use the AWS CLI with almost any Storage”
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We have just added a great new feature – File Approvals – to our Enterprise File Fabric. Here’s an example of how it works:
Continue reading “Streamlining document workflows across data silos with feedback and approvals”
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”
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