OpenStack Swift Share Folders and Files

Share OpenStack Swift folders over the Internet and share files online from your private OpenStack Cloud. Maintain data privacy and control. Turn swift into Your File Sharing Center with Colleagues.

Unleash the Power of OpenStack Swift with Gladinet

OpenStack Swift is part of OpenStack for its object storage service. The object storage service that offers scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Unleash the power of OpenStack Swift as a corporate cloud file server with desktop drive remote access, secure file sharing over web browser, and accompanied by mobile applications on iOS and Android devices.

Swift as a File Sharing Solution With These Features

Co-Editing
CentreStack integrates with Office 365 for web-based co-editing and co-authoring for files inside the shared folder.
Large Folder
Use Outlook integration to share large folder or files as web links via email.
Link Sharing
Use web links to share files and folders with recipients or to receive files.
Folder Permissions
Define different permissions for folders at different levels of the directory structure or inherit from NTFS permissions directly.
Secure Data Room
Web based secure data room allows view-only access with download disabled.
User Rights
From internal Active Directory users to external clients and partners, you can define user rights for folder sharing.

Usability is Superb!

Local large folders and files have traditionally been shared as email attachments that have to be saved on email servers and can get blocked if they're too big. Beside that, who knows where they will be copied and downloaded?

With CentreStack and OpenStack Swift combined, you can share folders online and share files over the Internet from your laptops and desktops as web links, with read and write permissions and expiration dates, or even in a secure data room with auditing features. So you get the convenience of one-click sharing combined with reliability and scalability of OpenStack Swift.

Additional Swift Folder Sharing Benefits with CentreStack

CentreStack eliminates the common drawbacks of local file server access and cloud folder sharing solutions.

Mobile Access
Simplify remote access to file shares with familiar interfaces on any computer or device. Windows and Mac desktops display natively mapped drives in Explorer and Finder. That same experience is presented on iOS and Android devices like iPads, iPhoned, and Android devices.
Collaboration
Easily collaborate with business partners by providing them with access to a limited set of internal files or folders. Share folders online with non-AD users while maintaining administrative controls. Simplify multi-site collaboration with automatic version controls and file locking.
Reduce Costs
Eliminate the overhead and support tickets commonly associated with VPN file sharing, always On VPN or direct access. Automatically use existing users and permissions to save setup time and money. Take advantage of AWS data center bandwidth for speed and time.
Synchronization
Mapped drives display directory structure but delay downloads until a file is used to reduce bandwidth usage and storage consumption. Laptops with small SSD drives work well.
Data Security
Files are secured at rest and in transit with military grade encryption, secure connections and more. Automatically use existing users and permissions to save setup time and money.
Productivity
Provide an always-on mapped drive that works anywhere on any device and allows mobile users to easily access folders on the internal file shares.
Quick Upload
For large files that has minor local modifications, binary differential blocks will be calculated and the different blocks will be uploaded instead of the while file to save bandwidth and save time.
Encryption
For files sitting in the local file cache, encryption is available to protect these files that has been downloaded to local cache. Without a successful login, these files will stay encrypt-at-rest and be protected.
Audit Trace
Audit traces and file change history logs are available to analyze who, at what time, changed which files on the local machine or moved files and folders from which source to which destination.
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