Presentation that describes how to easily turn OpenStack Swift into a business ready Cloud File Service.

1. Turning OpenStack Swift into a rich
business ready Cloud Service
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2. What SME does
- Makes OpenStack Swift ‘Business ready’ for ISP’s or direct end-users
- Turns Swift into a sophisticated Cloud Data Service
- Supports virtual drive and sync for all desktop clients & native Apps for all Mobiles
- Adds control / audit / governance to all files
- Indexes meta-data for rapid search
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3. Initial sign in
‣ Initial Home Page after creating a
Cloud File Server Account
‣ The service can used from a
hosted environment at
• US: http://storagemadeasy.com
• EU: http://eu.storagemadeeasy.com
‣ The Service can be run from a
customers own premise (supplied as
a VMWARE, XEN or KVM instance)
‣ The service can be run on Linode or
EC2
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4. Custom Branding
‣ Each Cloud File Server can be
branded
‣ Online and on-Premise hosted
Cloud Appliance can have
‘deeper’ branding
• All desktop and mobile tools can
Branding & be branded for on-premise use of
Unique login page the SME Appliance
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5. Cloud File Server Admin
Branding
‣ Cloud File Server
Administrators have additional
options
‣ This enables them to ‘control’
the cloud file server users,
options, security, and
governance.
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6. Homepage Widgets
‣ ‘Widgets’ can be added to the
home page
‣ Widgets can be customisable
‣ Widget framework enables
custom widgets to be developed
for hooking into company
information
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7. User Management
‣ Users can easily be managed
or added
‣ Users can completely managed
from another Identity
Management system
• Active Directory
• LDAP
‣ Bulk users can be added
from .csv file
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8. Active Directory / BYOD
Active Directory & BYOD
integration
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9. File Manager
‣ Rich / functional web file
manager
shared folders
• Separate ‘lite’ file manager for
locked down browsers
• Visualises all OpenStack Data
supports file
Locking &
encryption
drag / drop files
straight onto webpage
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10. File options
‣ Files options depend on
file type
• Office files can be edited
and saved back to the
original location using
Zoho office or Google
Docs
• Text files can be edited
also inline
• Viewers exist for various
files integrated with best
of breed online services
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11. Example: viewing an Autocad file
‣ Files can be viewed or
edited inline depending
on the file type
• This is an example of an
Autocad file being viewed
through the Google
Viewer
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12. Sharing Options
‣ Rich sharing options
• Share by secure link, time expiry,
over email, to external groups
Email sharing
URL Sharing
Group Sharing
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13. Encryption
‣ All files no matter the location
can be encrypted
• AES SHA-1 256 bit secure
encryption
• Public Key stored but private key
not stored, remains with user
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14. Sharing files Internally
‣ Shared folders can be used to
promote internal file sharing
• Access control lists supported at
folder, role & user level
• Can integrate with Active Directory
‣ Admin can delegate users to
also create shared folders
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15. Sharing files externally
‣ Business Workspaces can be
used to share external files
• Create a group, invite people and
then simply share file with group
• All members receive updates
• Set Auto-updates based on rules
• Members can be collaborators
• Members can be private (don’t see
each other)
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16. Sharing files over email
‣ Files can be ‘sent’ to OpenStack
simply as a ‘cc’ or bcc’ on regular
email
• Users has private folder with email
address
• Shared folders have email
addresses so that data normally
trapped in emails can be easily
added
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17. Searching files
‣ Quick search interface
• Search against all Swift
indexed meta-data quickly
• Works from any client
Tagged file
search
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18. File notifications
‣ Set sophisticated
notification options for
when files are added to
a shared folder
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19. Event Auditing
‣ Audit each file event
• For security
• For legislative
purposes
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20. Sophisticated options
‣ Sophisticated Options
• For management
• Corporate governance
• Security
• Branding
• Encryption
• Versioning
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21. That was just a brief look at the
Web platform of a Cloud File Server
based on using with OpenStack
Swift
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22. Native desktop Drives + Sync
Windows
Mac
Linux
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23. Native Clients for all mobiles / tablets
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24. Thanks !
info@storagemadeeasy.com !
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