Introduction
This white paper describes CentreStack for service provider. The solution
can be used by businesses and service providers to privately deploy and host file sync
and share solutions, 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
Many of your business customers 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 in a third party hosting site.
Many of them are turning to you now for an answer. Since you are already manage
important IT infrastructure for the customer, it would be great if you could manage
a dropbox-like service for your business customers.
Gladinet Solution
CentreStack provides a solution for the problem above. First it enables
the service provider to intall and host the solution completely on-premise or inside
the service provider's data center. Second, it can be integrated with the file server
storage, SAN storage, NAS storage or private cloud storage service such as OpenStack Swift
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.
Benefit 2 - Native integration with Home Directory
User's home directory information will be directly used for web browser based and
mobile device access.
Benefit 3 - Integration with Customer's Storage
The solution can be integrated with customer's 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.
Benefit 4 - You host and own the solution
Since you host the solution as part of your offering to the customer, you own the solution
and enhance your value-add and service provided to customers.
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
tightly integrates with Active Directory and User's home directory settings to provide
a seamlessly integrated file sync and share solution for easy online access.
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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