When it comes to centralized data management, data privacy, data security, and regulation compliance, businesses revert to the on-premise file server solution for answers. However, employees need offline editing, mobile access, and web-based file sharing. How do you solve the problem?
A real estate management group has inspectors in the field with laptops with Internet connections when inspecting apartments under management. They need to cache data locally, access it offline, and then update when back online within the corporate networks. Offline updates might create potential conflicts that a solution can resolve nicely. The company doesn't want to go to a cloud solution yet because the data is media heavy (pictures and videos), driving up storage costs in the cloud. They currently use two solutions Citrix ShareFile, and SureSync band-aided together, where ShareFile is responsible for capturing data in the field, and SureSync is accountable for syncing data on the laptop back to corporate DFS file servers. There is a lot of management overhead, and they prefer a single solution that can connect corporate DFS file servers directly to field inspectors for offline access.
There are situations when a cloud solution is not a good fit. Companies usually revert to the Windows file serve for data management. Offline access is not a typical supported use case from the Windows file server infrastructure. The need for offline access drives the adoption of cloud solutions such as Citrix ShareFile. However, when offline access is added to the Windows solution stack, it is the right solution this real estate company is looking for.
Businesses adopt file sync and share solutions in three different phases (*): tactical, strategic, and transformational.
(* The three stages were defined in the Google Cloud Adoption Framework)
Different business units adopt other cloud storage solutions
On-premise file servers continue to provide support for line-of-business applications.
A centralized data management and mobility solution is used across different business units.
On-premise file server solution and cloud storage solution unified.
The centralized data management and collaboration platform can be easily deployed cloud-agnostically.
Business insights generated from the unified file sync and share platform.
You are using either OneDrive, SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Box, or other cloud storage solutions at the tactical phase. Most importantly, you are also using the traditional Windows file server or NetApp file server solutions on-premise to provide application compatibility because the cloud storage solution doesn't work 100% with all business activities. You notice challenges from data sprawling, data governance, data leakage, and data security at this stage.
Cloud storage migration usually starts with copying and migrating file server data content over to third-party storage services.
Some applications can't move, and you have invested heavily in the past, from user's experience to licensing costs.
Cloud storage adoption usually starts from a small percentage of workers and a small percentage of use cases. When file server content and cloud storage content co-exist, a problem appears.
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, the private file sync and share solution provides the centralized mobility solution for you. It empowers it with cloud productivity features such as mobile access, secure sharing, data protection, and cloud migration.
Shall you give up your Windows file server and adopt these public cloud storage services? Or shall we add modern cloud services to Windows file servers and take the file servers back to the future!
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 opens a file, the file locking process will be initiated automatically and finished automatically when the file editing finishes.
Finally, integrating 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.
SharePoint On-Premises requires at least two servers, a database server and a storage server which IT must manage. Triofox is much easier to deploy on a clean Windows Server.
SharePoint is challenging as a file server migration destination. Triofox provides a mapped drive over HTTPS for simplified access from anywhere.
Triofox's drive-based access requires no training. Right-click to share or request file transfers.
Triofox is much simpler to manage with auditing, reporting and policy-based administration.
Businesses can address data privacy concerns by providing access to internal file servers. Triofox offers the unique option of cloud-enabling existing file servers to replace cloud file sharing.
Files are secured at rest and in transit with military grade encryption and secure connections. Save setup time and money by automatically using existing users and permissions.
Centrally manage users, access controls, and storage for each tenant. Admins can perform audits of GDPR and HIPAA compliance or keep track of any changes that have been made to individual files.
Unlike SharePoint, which require you to upload your confidential data, Triofox leaves all shared files on your file servers intact. Triofox keeps data in one place for both file server shares and cloud file sharing instead of allowing data to scatter.
Simplify remote access to file shares with familiar instances on any computer or device. Windows and Mac desktops display natively mapped drives in Explorer and Finder. The same experience is presented on iOS and Android devices, as well as popular web browsers.
Centrally manage users, access, controls, and storage for each tenant. Admins can perform audits of GDPR and HIPAA compliance or keep track of any changes that have been made to individual files.
For complete control and visibility, permissions can be managed from the source file server or natively with Triofox.
With Triofox, data saved to file shares is replicated to the cloud and vice versa, to ensure business continuity with hybrid deployments.
Work with business partners by providing them with access to a limited set of internal files or folders. Share files with non Active Directory users while maintaining administrative controls. Simplify multi-site collaboration with automatic version controls and file locking.
Provide a mapped drive that works anywhere on any device and allows mobile users to easily access internal file shares or cloud file servers.
Mapped drives display directory structure but delay downloads until a file is used to reduce bandwidth usage and endpoint storage consumption.
With Triofox, you can receive automatic alerts that help keep track of all changes in the system.
Eliminate the overhead and support tickets commonly associated with VPN file sharing, Always On VPN or Direct Access. Automatically use existing users and permissions to save setup time and money.
Triofox provides a white labeled platform that makes it easy for MSP partners to build a private cloud file server solution based on infrastructure from Amazon, or Microsoft Azure.
Triofox has the flexibility to provide an on-premises alternative to Dropbox and SharePoint using existing file servers.
Triofox creates a web server front end accepting client agent requests from remote Windows, Mac, web browser, iOS and Android devices. Client agents provide drive mapping functionality.
Client agents send HTTPS/SSL requests to the Triofox server. Triofox server can log the requests for auditing purposes and also coordinate the file access and sharing demands.
Active Directory and NTFS permissions are used to check whether the file requests are allowed. After that, file requests are satisfied and returned via HTTPS/SSL to client agents.
Easily collaborate with business partners by providing them with mobile access to a limited set of internal files or folders. Share files with non-AD users while maintaining administrative controls. Simplify multi-site collaboration by consolidating multiple file shares for mobile access.
Simplify mobile access to file shares with familiar interfaces on any computer or device. Windows and Mac desktops display natively mapped drives in Explorer and Finder. That same experience is presented on iOS and Android devices like iPads, iPhones and Pixels or can be viewed from popular web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.
Eliminate the overhead and support tickets commonly associated with VPN file sharing, Always On VPN or Direct Access. Automatically use existing users and permissions to save setup time and money.
Files are secured at rest and in transit with military-grade encryption, secure connections and more. Automatically use existing users and permissions to save setup time and money.
For complete control and visibility, permissions can be managed from the file server that was their source or natively redefined from scratch.
Remotely mapped drives display directory structure but delayed downloads until a file is used to reduce bandwidth usage and endpoint storage consumption.
Businesses can address data privacy concerns by using Gladinet to provide access to internal file servers. It's common to talk about replacing existing file servers with cloud solutions to reduce costs and administrative overhead, and Gladinet can facilitate that in any private cloud, but Gladinet offers the unique option of using existing file servers to service mobile file sharing!
Companies don't have to use a different cloud file sharing solution while at the same time keeping the corporate file servers. The current file server infrastructure becomes the mobile file access and file sharing platform.
Provide an always-on mapped drive that works anywhere on any device and allows mobile users to easily access internal file shares or cloud file servers and share files and folders over the Internet.
Gladinet has the flexibility to provide an on-premises alternative to Dropbox and SharePoint using existing file servers.
Centrally manage users, access controls, and storage for each employee. Easily keep track of where the data is, who has access and how it's being shared.
Centrally manage users, access controls, and storage for each tenant. Admins can perform audits of GDPR and HIPAA compliance or keep track of any changes that have been made to individual files.
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