When employees work from home and remote locations, it is pretty cumbersome to use a VPN to connect to the corporate network. They may not have a choice when the Amazon S3 File Gateway is sitting inside the corporate network. However, Amazon S3 itself is out there in the Cloud. If a solution can connect to the same Amazon S3 bucket as the File Gateway and provide a SharePoint-like or a OneDrive-like interface, employees outside of the corporate firewall can access directly without a VPN.
A private investment firm has on-premise file servers and was running out of space on the file servers. They deployed AWS S3 File Gateway as an on-premise virtual appliance and moved files off the file servers and into the File Gateway appliance. Right now, they have moved 2TB into the AWS out of the total 8TB data set. The primary user group in the company is the marketing department. Since pandemics, most of them work from home and use client VPN to connect back to the corporate network to access the S3 File Gateway appliance. They also need to share and receive files from external business partners and clients. The S3 File Gateway hosts a mix of office documents, Adobe Photoshop files, pictures, and videos.
There are many S3 access tools, including Cloudberrylab S3 Explorer, ExpanDrive, TntDrive, and CyberDuck. However, these S3 direct-access tools didn't meet the company requirement for two reasons. First is the ability to integrate with Company's Active Directory infrastructure and the SAML single-sign-on. Second is the ability to do cloud file sharing with auditing and history. The company is looking for a "File Server" solution instead of a USB drive tool as an analogy.
Amazon S3 has a web interface in aws.amazon.com that can facilitate the easy upload and download of files. However, having a local s3 drive letter with s3 bucket contents mapped to Windows explorer will make using files inside S3.
The solution is adding Active Directory users to share files and folders within Amazon S3 by turning folders into online shared folders.
Make files and folders sitting inside Amazon S3 following you and always be available at your fingertips from iOS and Android devices.
Triofox integrates with Office 365 for web-based co-editing and co-authoring for files inside the shared folder.
Use Outlook integration to share large folders or files as web links via email.
Convert shared files and shared folders into web links for direct access over web browsers.
Request files from partners, clients and external parties using web links.
Define different permissions for folders at different levels of the directory structure or inherit from NTFS permissions directly.
Web-based secure data room allows view-only access to shared folders with download disabled.
You can define user rights for folder sharing from internal Active Directory users to external clients and partners.
Shared folders are under version control, and notifications are available for users subscribed to the folders.
Sending emails with several attachments was a norm over the years when sending files to co-workers or business partners. However, share a folder was never easy with email attachments. Sharing large files was impossible and blocked by email services. When S3 File Gateway was an on-premise solution without file sharing capability, the native Amazon S3 behind the S3 File Gateway is much easier to share files and folders over the Internet since every file and folder has a default "web link" representation. AWS S3 has the building blocks for file sharing, and the S3 storage by default is enterprise-ready. All we need is a solution into a friendly, easy-to-use, and yet a secure file-sharing solution.
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When users are outside the office, they will not need to use a VPN to tunnel back to the office network again. They can use the S3 bucket directly via Triofox and Triofox turned the S3 bucket underneath into a SharePoint-like Service. When users are back at the office, they can continue to use the S3 File Gateway, so any Windows workload on-premise stays the same as before!
Combines on-premise file servers and Amazon S3 for secure remote access without the need to use a VPN.
It leverages Amazon S3 as a central cloud file repository with version control, file change history, audit tracing, and mobile applications on iOS and Android.
It uses Amazon S3 storage in the Cloud for secure mobile file sharing from a web browser or mobile applications.
Since Amazon S3 is already in the cloud, accessing the same content as the S3 file gateway doesn't have to go through a VPN to loop back to the corporate network.
TRIOFOX AS YOUR OUT OF OFFICE CLOUD FILE SERVER , WHILE S3 FILE GATEWAY FOR YOUR ON-PREMISE WINDOWS WORKLOAD
Amazon S3 is the most supported cloud storage service with many technology partners providing S3-integrated solutions for primary storage, backup and restore, archive, and disaster recovery. With industry-leading performance, scalability, availability, and durability, it is widely used for businesses.
Triofox provides a unique cloud file server solution that integrates Active Directory, NTFS permissions, remote mapped drive, and file locking features into Amazon S3 cloud storage services. The result is a single solution that inherits both security features from existing IT infrastructure and mobility and durability from the Cloud (Amazon S3).
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