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--- cloudappliance [2018_02_05 21:57] – [1 What does the SME Cloud Control Appliance provide ?] steven
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+====== Enterprise File Fabric======
+Storage Made Easy provides a multi-cloud secure data management solution, The File Fabric, that is deployed on-premises, is storage agnostic and can be used either with a single storage back-end or multiple public / private storage systems. When deployed on-premises the File Fabric is totally private with no callbacks or monitoring, the latter of which should be integrated into the customers monitoring or alternatively the customer can setup [[https://blog.storagemadeeasy.com/file-fabric-metrics-visualization-using-grafana-influxdb-and-telegraf/|File Fabric monitoring with Grafana]].
-====== Storage Made Easy EFSS Cloud Control Appliance ======
+The File Fabric unifies the storage view across all access clients and implements a common control and governance policies through the use of its policy and governance features.
+The product is supplied as a software 'appliance' that is run inside of a hypervisor and consists of a pre-configured 'hardened' operating system (CentOS) and the File Fabric Application services.
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-Storage Made Easy provides an On-Premise Enterprise File Share and Sync (EFSS) Cloud Control Gateway solution that is storage agnostic and can be used either with a single storage back-end or multiple public / private storage systems. In the event of the latter SME unifies the view across all access clients and implements a common control and governance policies through the use of its cloud control features.\\ \\ The product is supplied as a software 'appliance' that is run inside of a hypervisor and consists of a pre-configured 'hardened' operating system (CentOS) and the EFSS Application provided by Storage Made Easy.
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-The Appliance can be provided as an OVF compliant image or as a VMWARE image. Both of these can work with ESXi, XEN, KVM or Hyper-V infrastructures.\\ \\ The purpose of providing the Appliance in a package manner is to simplify delivery and operation of the SME Cloud Control Application. Deployment of an Appliance in this manner can also eliminate problems with installation and configuration such as software or driver issues. Users simply download a single file and run and configure the Application.
-===== 1 What does the SME Cloud Control Appliance provide ? =====
+The File Fabric can be provided as an OVF compliant image or as a VMWARE image. Both of these can work with ESXi, KVM or Hyper-V infrastructures.
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+The purpose of providing the Appliance in a package manner is to simplify delivery and operation of the File Fabric Application. Deployment of an Appliance in this manner can also eliminate problems with installation and configuration such as software or driver issues. Users simply download a single file and run and configure the Application.
-The Storage Made Easy Appliance can be deployed On-Site or on an IaaS infrastructure (ie. Amazon EC2, Azure Cloud, Google Cloud, Rackspace hosted Cloud, Linode, Memset (UK) etc).
+===== What does the File Fabric provide ? =====
-Specifically it provides a solution to the following issues:
+{{ :screenshot_2020-11-16_at_15.56.42.png?600 |}}\\
-. It adds a common control point for all private and Cloud Data services
+The File Fabric can be privately deployed On-Site or on IaaS infrastructure (ie. [[https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B088M9KK9V?ref_=srh_res_product_title|Amazon EC2]], [[https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/storage_made_easy.file_fabric|Azure Cloud]], [[https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/sme-public-project/sme-enterprisefilefabric?q=file%20fabric&id=782610e5-c34c-4f9d-b949-5f121a7366a2|Google Cloud]], [[https://marketplace.cloud.vmware.com/services/details/enterprise-file-fabric2?slug=true|VMWare Marketplace]] etc).
-. It promoted secure joined up file sharing policies across all corporate data
-. It promotes safe storing of data on remote cloud services with public / private key encryption.
+Specifically it provides a solution to the following issues:
-. It provided a unified view into all corporate data and increased productivity with unified search capabilities.
-It can also be used to satisfy common use cases such as behind the firewall secure file sharing often referred to as the 'Private DropBox' or 'Enterprise' DropBox use case.
+. It adds a common control point for File and Object Data services
+. It provides a Single-Sign-On integration with corporate IAM services seamlessly through to back-end storage services.
+. It provides secure file/folder  sharing policies for file and object data
+. It provides [[fips|FIPS certified streamed encryption]] for file/object data.
+. It provides a common control point for governance / compliance of file / object data.
+. It provides increased end-user productivity through built in file transfer acceleration , unified search and collaboration capabilities.
+It can also be used to satisfy common use cases such as behind the firewall secure file sharing often referred to as the 'Private DropBox' or 'Enterprise' DropBox use case for file and object data.
-===== 2 Appliance Architecture =====
+===== File Fabric Logical Architecture =====
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-The SME Cloud Control Appliance is composed of:\\ \\ The core engine which incorporates:\\ \\ - Security Manager(s)\\ - Audit Manager\\ - Access Control Manager\\ - Sync Engine\\ - Cloud Backup engine\\ \\ The Cloud Control Appliance connects to various clouds on the 'back end' and entry points include:\\ \\ - SME Native Applications\\ - REST / JSON API\\ - WebDav API\\ - FTP / FTPS / SFTP API\\ - S3 API\\ \\ These API's and clients enable entry points to all data irrespective of whether the mapped clouds support such protocols or entry points or not.\\
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+The File Fabric is composed of:\\ \\ The core engine which incorporates:\\ \\ - Security Manager(s)\\ - Audit Manager\\ - Access Control Manager\\ - Indexing service\\ - Cloud Backup service\\ - Content Search and Discovery service\\ \\ The File Fabric connects to over 60 file/object storage solutions on the and entry points include:\\ \\ - File Fabric Native Applications\\ - REST / JSON API\\ - WebDav API\\ - FTP / FTPS / SFTP API\\ - S3 API\\ \\ These API's and Apps enable entry points to all data irrespective of whether the mapped clouds support such protocols or entry points or not.\\ \\
+It is also important to note that the solution is non-propreitary and therefore supports bi-modal use directly to the storage solutions that have been mapped to the File Fabric. If content is added to storage directly the File Fabric's indexing service adds the new data to the File Fabric's metadata cache.