Introduction
This white paper describes CentreStack. The solution can be used by
businesses to privately deploy and host a file sync and share solution, providing an access
layer (browser, mobile, desktop and file server access) around private cloud storage
service and local file server storage, and retaining full control of data and the
related access infrastructure.
Problem Statement
As the CIO of the company, whether it be an enterprise or a medium sized business,
you are now faced with the Dropbox problem. The employees of the business are using
Dropbox on their own to backup some local folders and make them easy to access from
over the Internet. However, from business perspective, it is not good knowing that
company documents may be scattered on multiple PCs and in different places on a third
party hosting site, creating
liabilities for regulatory obligations and leakage of business secrets.
You can't simply say no to personal Dropbox accounts. Instead, it would be great
if you could self-host and manage a dropbox-like service for your business and give
your employee an alternative solution and replacement solution that is also user friendly and at the same
time, under your own control.
CentreStack Solution
CentreStack provides a solution for the problem above. First it enables
you to install and host the solution completely on-premise or inside a trusted service
provider's data center. Second, it can be integrated with the file server storage,
SAN storage or NAS storage. This is a solution that you completely own and control.
Benefit 1 - Support Active Directory Users
There is no additional setup to add active directory users to the solution. Active
Directory users can simply log in to the on-premise Gladinet Cloud web portal. When
an employee leaves company, you just simply turn off his/her active directory entry and
the access to the solution will be turned off as well.
Benefit 2 - Native integration with Home Directory
Optionally, user's home directory information will be directly used for web browser based and
mobile device access. At work, employees are used to access the company wide personal home directory. Outside,
the employee will access to the same home directory.
Benefit 3 - Integration with Your Own Storage
The solution can be integrated with your own storage, whether it be file server
storage, SAN storage or NAS storage. In addition, you can also connect to your own
public cloud storage services.
Implementation
It is recommended that CentreStack be installed on Windows 2008 R2 servers,
or Windows 2012 R2 servers as shown in the following configuration. You can connect
the Active Directory to the CentreStack instance as the user manager.
You can also connect your local file server to the CentreStack Server.
Summary
CentreStack leverages the local connectivity to Active Directory and
enterprise's own storage solution to create a self-hosted dropbox alternative
solution. The benefit is to give security and control back in the hands of the
enterprise and the
employees.
For more information, please contact Gladinet Support @ enterprise@gladinet.com
or visit http://www.gladinet.com
See Also
Installable Enterprise Sync & Share Solution
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