Simple secure access and file sharing solution based on Amazon S3. iOS app and mobile access included!
You have moved data into Amazon S3 and are looking for a simple way to access those data from your mobile devices such as from an iPhone or an iPad. AWS management console has a web based file manager. However, it doesn't provide a s3 mobile application on iOS. The closest tool from Amazon is the Amazon S3 Transfer Utility for iOS, which is a mobile SDK for developers to integrate into their own applications. There are many other S3 iOS applications out there too.
So what is different with CentreStack? With CentreStack, you can access S3 files and folders from iOS devices, and share S3 files and folders as web links. You can integrate your on-premise file servers to Amazon S3 and create a hybrid cloud file server to facilitate mobile access to your on-premise file servers.
It's important for employees to have access to company data, some of which are now sitting in Amazon S3 buckets. With CentreStack, shared data from corporate file servers and Amazon S3 buckets are unified into one distributed file system view. Employees can access these work documents from the iPhones, where they can create, edit, share and view projects created in Microsoft Office, such as PowerPoint presentations or Excel spreadsheets.
Accountants work on Quickbooks and close the books for the month. The Quickbook reports are saved to corporate file servers, which in turn synchronize to a company-owned Amazon S3 bucket. The CEO, upon receiving a notification that the financial report is ready, open his/her CentreStack Cloud Drive iPhone app and read the financial report.
Real estate agents visit houses about to enter the market and take pictures of the house on their iPhones and iPads. The pictures are uploaded to Amazon S3 as the company's centralized media repository. Graphical designers back at the head quarter use a s3 mapped drive and Photoshop to enhance those house pictures before the house is posted for sale with nice picture presentations.
Integrates NTFS and folder permissions with files sitting in S3
Using employee's active directory credential to login
Add comments to files and folders for team collaboration
Notify team members of file changes
Law firms upload reference libraries to Amazon S3. Lawyers on the go can mark specific library folder as offline favorite and the reference materials in those offline folders are pre-fetched into iPhone CentreStack Cloud Drive app. When a lawyer click on a file inside the reference library, he can use the iPhone default viewer or a specific iPhone application to view the documents.
Amazon S3, for the most part, is designed for independent software vendors (ISVs) to build business solutions, and not for direct use. It is kind of like a hard drive, which is not designed to be used directly but as a building block behind a tool like Windows Explorer or a file sharing platform such as a Windows file server. When you are on an iPhone accessing files from S3, you are likely an end-user instead of a developer.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. In the business world, Amazon S3 is approved for enterprise use while at the same time Dropbox is likely banned. However, as the CIO or the head of the IT team, you wish there is an iPhone solution that turns Amazon S3 into a corporate file accessing solution as easy as a Dropbox solution would but keeps data in Amazon S3 for its enterprise features and corporate strengths.
Using iPhone applications such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Applications to edit files in S3 and save it back to S3.
Taking pictures of real estates or building projects and save it back to a centralized company-owned S3 bucket.
Connect S3 bucket to corporate on-premise file servers and access corporate file server network shares on iPhone.
Mark files and folders sitting in S3 bucket as favorites and access files and folders on-demand to get jobs done on an iPhone or iPad.
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A solution that adds iPhone application, web browser interface, Windows mapped drive and Mac Finder volume to Amazon S3 buckets and turn Amazon S3 into a corporate cloud file server solution.
Combines on-premise file servers and Amazon S3 for secure remote access without the need of using a VPN.
Leverages Amazon S3 as a central cloud file repository with version control, file change history and audit tracing to provide business continuity for file servers on-premises.
Uses Amazon S3 storage in the cloud for secure mobile file sharing from a web browser or from mobile applications.
Sets up a hybrid deployment between local file servers and Amazon S3 storage that can be seamlessly converted to AWS only later.
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