A self-hosted private file sharing solution brings the cloud experience to your on-premise file servers for data ownership, data privacy, and permission control. When cloud mobility cooperates with the traditional mapped drive and file locking, you found a private cloud file server you have been searching for. It retains the file server's security and privacy strength and empowers it with cloud productivity features such as mobile access, secure sharing, data protection, and cloud migration.
Most public file sharing solutions ask you to upload files to their hosting sites before sharing with your business partners and colleagues. So who owns your data, and how do you audit access and changes to your data? Are you losing control of your data when it is sitting somewhere in a third party hosting site in a different country?
How do you enforce data access policy, data encryption, and change auditing with your current file sharing solution? How do you meet regulatory compliance requirements and be HIPAA compliant or GDPR compliant? Does the file-sharing solution provide enough data retention policy for it to be FINRA compliant?
Using your file servers and existing Active Directory infrastructure to set up the file-sharing solution guaranteed that the corporation still owns the data from their existing IT infrastructure.
Self-Hosting the file-sharing solution makes it easy to set up data protection, data retention, and auditing policies for various regulatory compliances. And better yet, your file server as the data repository makes it easy to extend the existing auditing workflow
Using existing file servers as the data repository extends the current data privacy model. In addition to using VPN to access corporate file servers, HTTPS based access method and web-link sharings are excellent additions to the file server functionality.
Since your file server is the data repository for the self-hosted file sharing solution, data management and user management are becoming comfortable. You can still use your current life cycle management policies for your file server and use current identity providers for data access.
Active Directory infrastructure continues to govern the file sharing access. Active directory federation or SAML single-sign-on can continue to authenticate users, and the NTFS permissions can continue to protect file accessing.
Unlike consumer file sharing solutions, business users have these standard requirements:
Business users are used to accessing files from centralized file server network shares. A file sharing solution that extends the current file server capability with HTTPS access and web-link sharing makes it seamless for user's daily workflow.
Businesses use Active Directory, SAML single-sign-on for user authentication. And use various other Active Directory-centric permission control methods to protect files and folders. A file sharing solution must integrate well with Active Directory.
Remote workers are used to accessing centralized file servers via a drive mapping at work and via a VPN from remote locations. A file sharing solution that presents files and folders inside a drive letter makes it so much easier for employees without additional training.
The consumer data working set is usually small. As a comparison, business data working set on corporate file servers are typically large. It is uncommon for a light-weighted laptop to store 100% of the corporate file server content, which is not secure to start. On-Demand sync and access save storage space on remote devices.
File locking is another feature from traditional file servers that business users are used to when multiple users are collaborating on the same set of files. File locking means when a user starts to edit a specific file, the solution will automatically lock the file until the user finishes the editing and close the file. It is another familiar feature for users.
Unlike consumer file sharing solutions, the corporate needs to manage all the end-points capable of accessing the corporate data. Whether it be end-point access policies or end-point backup of the devices, a business-oriented file sharing solution will need to consider the end-point management requirements.
Why choose Gladinet? Why not OwnCloud?
With the Gladinet solution, the file-sharing solution is interoperable with existing file server network shares. It comes with Active Directory integration, cloud drive mapping, global file locking, and the NTFS permission control integrations. All these native integrations make the file-sharing solution more like an extension of the current file server instead of another data silo that takes data away.
Mapped drive over HTTPS channel to the corporate file server is a crucial feature. Employees are familiar with a mapped drive, and no additional training is required.
Corporate users already have corporate identities in Active Directory and related Active Directory federation service and SAML single-sign-on. They don't need yet another set of credentials to access a file-sharing solution.
Most of the file-sharing solutions offer manual file locking in the forms of "file check-in" and "check out." Gladinet provides automatic file locking by detecting file opening requests. When Microsoft Word is opening a file, the file locking process will be initiated automatically and finished automatically when the file editing finishes.
Finally, the ability to integrate with Active Directory and NTFS permission makes it so much easier for system administrators to set up the permission control. The permission features make the Gladinet solution stands out among the peers.
The network shares you are familiar with from the file server will become team folders directly accessible from Cloud.
You will get a drive letter in Windows Explorer to access the files from Cloud.
You will get file locking when you work on files from the cloud.
Active Directory integration is easy whether the file server is local or remote.
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Bring the cloud experience to your file server by providing Secure Mobile Access to file servers without cloud replication. Use existing NTFS permissions and Active Directory identities. Enhance data control with features like file versioning, auditing, reporting, and policy-based collaboration.
Become a Cloud Service Provider by providing a Dropbox alternative for your users that keeps you in control of their data while reducing costs by 50-80%. At the same time, you move the file servers to your data center and provide a business continuity solution for your businesses.
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