Many businesses are now faced with the Dropbox problem. Employees use it to backup work folders from work and simplify access from home, airports and other remote locations. But this scatters data across multiple devices and 3rd party locations, increasing the risk of data leakage or non-compliance
When business use Dropbox, they quickly discover that it's not ideal for business collaboration and file sharing for several reasons:
Many of them are turning to you now for an answer. An since you already manage their IT infrastructure, you can answer these questions by self-hosting and managing a dropbox alternative on-premises while addressing these pain points:
You can easily deploy Gladinet CentreStack on-premises to overcome the business challenges of using Dropbox at work.
The self-hosted Dropbox alternative provides a file sharing and mobile access solution that can be hosted behind your corporate firewall, on Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. At the same time, it leverages Active Directory permissions and gives end users a drive letter with on-demand access and file locking.
Businesses retain data privacy and ownership and maintain existing access controls, while providing remote sharing and mobile access. It is the best of both worlds!
Install the solution on a Windows Server in 20 minutes.
CentreStack is multi-tenant by default. Single-tenancy is a simpler special case.
Customize the solution with your own branding.
Each CentreStack server supports thousands of users or can be clustered to create massive scale.
Use Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage or file server shares to create a private, self-hosted Dropbox alternative.
Install it behind a company firewall or in Amazon or Azure data centers.
Install CentreStack on Windows 2012 R2 servers or Windows 2016 or Windows 2019 servers as shown below. Connect Active Directory (AD) and your local file server to the CentreStack instance.
The CentreStack server sits behind the corporate firewall and accepts incoming agent requests from port 443 (HTTPS), authenticates against the AD domain controller, and uses the resulting security token to control file access requests to internal file servers.