Turning Open Stack Swift Into A Rich Business Ready Cloud Service
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The document outlines how Storage Made Easy transforms OpenStack Swift into a sophisticated cloud data service that is business-ready for ISPs and end-users, providing features such as file management, sharing options, and encryption. It highlights functionalities like user management, branding, and audit capabilities, as well as integration with platforms like Active Directory and various file editing tools. Additionally, it describes the cloud file server's ability to operate in hosted or on-premise environments, supporting fast searches and customizability through widgets.
Turning Open Stack Swift Into A Rich Business Ready Cloud Service
- 1. Turning OpenStack Swift into a rich business ready Cloud Service 1
- 2. What SME does - Makes OpenStack Swift ‘Business ready’ for ISP’s or direct end-users - Turns Swift into a sophisticated Cloud Data Service - Supports virtual drive and sync for all desktop clients & native Apps for all Mobiles - Adds control / audit / governance to all files - Indexes meta-data for rapid search 2
- 3. Initial sign in ‣ Initial Home Page after creating a Cloud File Server Account ‣ The service can used from a hosted environment at • US: http://storagemadeasy.com • EU: http://eu.storagemadeeasy.com ‣ The Service can be run from a customers own premise (supplied as a VMWARE, XEN or KVM instance) ‣ The service can be run on Linode or EC2 3
- 4. Custom Branding ‣ Each Cloud File Server can be branded ‣ Online and on-Premise hosted Cloud Appliance can have ‘deeper’ branding • All desktop and mobile tools can Branding & be branded for on-premise use of Unique login page the SME Appliance 4
- 5. Cloud File Server Admin Branding ‣ Cloud File Server Administrators have additional options ‣ This enables them to ‘control’ the cloud file server users, options, security, and governance. 5
- 6. Homepage Widgets ‣ ‘Widgets’ can be added to the home page ‣ Widgets can be customisable ‣ Widget framework enables custom widgets to be developed for hooking into company information 6
- 7. User Management ‣ Users can easily be managed or added ‣ Users can completely managed from another Identity Management system • Active Directory • LDAP ‣ Bulk users can be added from .csv file 7
- 8. Active Directory / BYOD Active Directory & BYOD integration 8
- 9. File Manager ‣ Rich / functional web file manager shared folders • Separate ‘lite’ file manager for locked down browsers • Visualises all OpenStack Data supports file Locking & encryption drag / drop files straight onto webpage 9
- 10. File options ‣ Files options depend on file type • Office files can be edited and saved back to the original location using Zoho office or Google Docs • Text files can be edited also inline • Viewers exist for various files integrated with best of breed online services 10
- 11. Example: viewing an Autocad file ‣ Files can be viewed or edited inline depending on the file type • This is an example of an Autocad file being viewed through the Google Viewer 11
- 12. Sharing Options ‣ Rich sharing options • Share by secure link, time expiry, over email, to external groups Email sharing URL Sharing Group Sharing 12
- 13. Encryption ‣ All files no matter the location can be encrypted • AES SHA-1 256 bit secure encryption • Public Key stored but private key not stored, remains with user 13
- 14. Sharing files Internally ‣ Shared folders can be used to promote internal file sharing • Access control lists supported at folder, role & user level • Can integrate with Active Directory ‣ Admin can delegate users to also create shared folders 14
- 15. Sharing files externally ‣ Business Workspaces can be used to share external files • Create a group, invite people and then simply share file with group • All members receive updates • Set Auto-updates based on rules • Members can be collaborators • Members can be private (don’t see each other) 15
- 16. Sharing files over email ‣ Files can be ‘sent’ to OpenStack simply as a ‘cc’ or bcc’ on regular email • Users has private folder with email address • Shared folders have email addresses so that data normally trapped in emails can be easily added 16
- 17. Searching files ‣ Quick search interface • Search against all Swift indexed meta-data quickly • Works from any client Tagged file search 17
- 18. File notifications ‣ Set sophisticated notification options for when files are added to a shared folder 18
- 19. Event Auditing ‣ Audit each file event • For security • For legislative purposes 19
- 20. Sophisticated options ‣ Sophisticated Options • For management • Corporate governance • Security • Branding • Encryption • Versioning 20
- 21. That was just a brief look at the Web platform of a Cloud File Server based on using with OpenStack Swift 21
- 22. Native desktop Drives + Sync Windows Mac Linux 22
- 23. Native Clients for all mobiles / tablets 23