General
Technical
Licensing
General
Q: What is CentreStack?
CentreStack is Gladinet's enterprise product. It was called Gladinet Cloud Enterprise
in the past. With more and more enterprise companies using the product and shift
the company focus into the enterprise solutions, the name CentreStack was chosen
to represent the product instead of extending the name from Gladinet.
"CentreStack" packages all of the file sync and share access infrastructure
into a package that an Enterprise/MSP can install on-premise, or inside a DMZ to
have full control and security protection, with optional native Active Directory
integration. You can set any storage (or your own file servers) as the default cloud
storage and provide it to your customers.
CentreStack Server can be installed on-premise, close to where your
storage is. It provide web browser, mobile app, desktop client and different device
access methods. There are many ways you will find CentreStack useful.
For example, if you have file server storage or SAN storage and want to provide
modern cloud-storage-like file sync & share and collaboration interface around
it, you can do so.
The biggest problem that CentreStack solve is the data leakage problem
the business customers are facing. CIO wants data protection and maintain regulation
compliancy while the end users love the simplicity of dropbox and other online service.
The solution is to give a dropbox-like solution to the hands of CIO so he can use
his own storage services. On one hand, data is stored in a storage service that
is secure and meet regulatory compliance. On the other hand, the employees as end
users continue to enjoy the convenience the cloud storage solution provides.
How can I get started?
CentreStack is a free download with 90-day trial built in. You can
click on the free trial link on the CentreStack page to get started.
You can also contact enterprise@gladinet.com to get started.
Technical
Q: What is the best way to try CentreStack features?
The easiest way is to sign up the 14-day Team Edition from www.gladinet.com. Gladinet
is hosting the same CentreStack on gladinet.com so you can see the
all the end user facing features. The sign up process is 3-5 minutes so it is very
quick.
The best way is still to leverage the 90-day free trial for the CentreStack
itself directly. Just find a clean Windows 2012 R2 machine and download the 7MB
installer and in about 20 minutes, the CentreStack will be up and running.
Usually we recommend you try both. After you are familiar with the features,
you can download the CentreStack package and install it yourself. You can compare the self-hosted
CentreStack side by side with the Gladinet Cloud (on gladinet.com)
and see how it works in your own self-hosted environment.
Q: Can I brand CentreStack into my (company) name?
Yes. CentreStack comes with White Labeled web portal and desktop client
so it covers most of the branding options. If you need further branding of the iOS
app and Android app, full branding option is also available too with the help from
Gladinet consulting to customize it for Apple App Store and Google Play store.
Q: What Server OS can be used to install CentreStack?
We recommend Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 R2. Any Edition from Web Edition
to Data Center Edition will work. If you have both 2008 and 2012 servers, we recommend
server 2012 R2 to start with.
Q: Where can I deploy CentreStack?
Wherever you can install a Windows Server 2008/2012 R2, you can install CentreStack
Server on it. We recommend you install it in a Virtual Machine environment,
which makes upgrade and scale out to multiple node easy. Most of the CentreStack
customer install the solution inside their own data center and inside VMware environment.
Q: How scalable is CentreStack?
CentreStack can be a farm of server nodes, each supporting up to 1000 concurrent
users (or 5000 named users) when the server configuration is equivalent to an Amazon EC2 medium instance.
If you need to support 10,000 users, you can have 10 CentreStack nodes
in your farm. You can use CentreStack's built-in load balance or you can use a load
balancer in the front.
Yes. You can use your own File Server storage, SAN storage, private cloud storage
or even public storage.
Yes. You can connect your Active Directory to CentreStack.
What is the difference between the two package options?
CentreStack comes with two package options you can decide at installation time, one for single tenant and one for service provider.
The single tenant package is best fit for a single company that has one single Active Directory forest.
The service provider package is best for a service provider that needs to serve different companies.
Licensing
How is CentreStack Licensed?
CentreStack is licensed by the number of users. It has two licensing model. One is
monthly recurring and the other is one time perpetual. Contact enterprise@gladinet.com
for more details.
For more information, please contact Gladinet Support @ enterprise@gladinet.com
or visit http://www.gladinet.com
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