CentreStack transforms traditional file servers into cloud file servers

CentreStack is a managed sync and share solution. It can be used in a multi-tenant setup to service multiple companies or multiple departments of the same company. The companies almost always have an active directory each. There are two different ways to integrate active directory. The first one is traditional LDAP connection. The second one is via Server Agent to help connect remote active directory. This video demonstrates how to connect Active Directory to CentreStack on a per-tenant basis. The next video in the blog will demonstrate connection Active Directory via Server Agent. (Server Agent is a small piece of software included in CentreStack that can install on remote file servers that are in the active directory). Here is the video for Active Directory connection via LDAP.

Happy new year 2015! As we are in 2015 and look back to year 2014, Gladinet Cloud Enterprise made pretty big progress toward enterprise grade. It is becoming more and more of an enterprise file sync and share solution, driven by enterprises that had adopted the solution. Some enterprises that had adopted Gladinet Cloud Enterprise have more than 50,000 users that are active on the Gladinet Cloud Enterprise system. List of Major Changes in 2014 Here is a list of changes in 2014 that drives the product toward enterprise adoption Support AD forest (with multiple Active Directory) Auto client upgrade Pass enterprise security scan More Group Policy to control produce behavior Enhanced OpenStack support (more and more enterprise are using OpenStack) Enhance Audit Trace and File Change Log File Sharing with distribution list Enhance Single Server Scalability to 10,000 users per worker node Support DFS as backend storage Role based administration and Assign role to AD group Add ...

OpenStack Swift is a good fit for private enterprise storage and enterprise file sync and share solution (EFSS). This video demonstrates using a Mac client to access files and folders in the file sync and share solution, while the back end storage coming from OpenStack Swift.   visit www.gladinet.com and follow the Enterprise or Service Provider link for more information.

EFSS is about file sync and share. Sync is about move files from point to point so it can be shared later. File sharing is about collaboration. OpenStack Swift can be the backend storage service where the files stay. The Gladinet Cloud Enterprise is the user-facing front end providing the sync and share capability. In sharing and collaboration, one of the most required feature is permission control, meaning who can access what files and folders. This video demonstrates OpenStack EFSS solution with file permission control. Team Folder Team folder is like network share, in that you can assign read/write permission to different people. Folder Permission Folder permission is like ACL (Access Control List), that you can assign list/read/write/delete permission to individual folders.   For more details, visit http://www.gladinet.com and follow the Enterprise or Service Provider links.

This session covers the OpenStack File Sync and Share solution. The storage service is provided by OpenStack Swift. The File Sync and Share Layer is provided by Gladinet Cloud Enterprise. In the video, it started by connecting the OpenStack Swift container to user’s home directory, and then upload some files to the cloud folders. After that, it demonstrates the file and folder sharing from web browser interface, windows client interface and from mobile client interface.

We kicked off a series of OpenStack EFSS video demo and blog articles. Yesterday we started with a general overview of the EFSS (Enterprise Sync and Share) solution based on OpenStack Swift. Today’s session will focus more on the web browser interface. This video starts from the multi-tenant interface and going into creating a new tenant, and assign an OpenStack swift container to the tenant. After that, it covers the multi-user web browser interface about how each user access the files and folders. (Single Tenant Enterprise Edition is a special case of the Multi-Tenant edition) In the middle of the session, it reviews the team folder concept and how multiple users in the same company can share and collaboration on the team folder. At the end of the session, it also covers the peer-to-peer or point-to-point share. The peer to peer share can share files with guest users or users from other companies.

OpenStack Swift is for the private cloud, from the CPU to object storage. Enterprise file sync and share focused more on the private cloud, which makes it a natural fit to play together with OpenStack Swift. This video demonstrates the Gladinet Cloud Enterprise (providing the EFSS, enterpriser file sync share layer) running side-by-side with OpenStack swift (running on a Ubuntu server). Together they can provide a private cloud based, enterprise file sync and share solution.

Gladinet Cloud android client over the years has accumulated many features such as thumbnail for pictures, offline browsing, upload multiple pictures, in-place editing of files and etc. The video below documents the new look and feel since November this year.

The local editing feature is to use local application on Windows desktop and laptop to edit files sitting in the cloud directly without downloading and installing the full feature desktop client. The use case can be that you and your colleague are looking at some files together and you will need to make some modification and you are away from your desktop so you will need to make modifications without the full desktop client. Below is the video.

Role Manager is about giving users certain rights and access to certain management functionality. Before the role manager, the Gladinet Cloud Enterprise has delegated administrator. The default tenant administrator can assign additional administrators to help out on the administration work. However, the delegated administrator is more a all-or-nothing in the past, meaning if you are the admin, you have all the right, and if you are not an administrator, you don’t have rights. Now, with role manager, you can have a finer control of what users can do regards administrative works. Below is a video session about the Role Manager.

Gladinet Cloud Enterprise in the past has been supporting the regular Microsoft Network Share. The use case is to give online access, mobile access and remote access to Microsoft network shares, over web browser, iOS and Android devices and from remote locations. The Microsoft DFS Share is a little bit different from the regular Microsoft Network Share in that it needs an additional step to translate the distributed file system share into a regular network share. This video documents the Gladinet Cloud Enterprise DFS Support.

It is about 50 days into the new year and there are already many changes in Gladinet products and solutions. Here are some of the most important ones. Mobile Client Enhancements iOS client added many features, such as multiple file upload, thumbnail viewing for directory listing. Added token support for security. Android client added many features as well, such as multiple file upload, offline support, and token for security. Large Active Directory Support In January, we simulated an internal active directory forest that covers 3 sub-domains, containing over 300,000 users.  This is largely driven by our enterprise partners. As a result, Gladinet Cloud Enterprise supports very large active directory integration. Better OpenStack Swift Support This is also driven by our partner as more and more are taking on OpenStack Swift as an internal private deployment. Gladinet Cloud Enterprise has been tested against OpenStack Swift again and again, first with Rackspace Cloud Files, the...

Gladinet Cloud was designed from scratch for team account, with many team users. As such, more and more team-oriented features are moving into the Gladinet Cloud as teams grow bigger and bigger within Gladinet Cloud. Delegate Administrator In the past, there are two types of users, the administrator and the normal team user. Now there is a delegate administrator that can help administrator to setup team folder, manage users in the team and all these administrative works.

It is Jan 1st, 2011! Happy new year to everyone that is interested in Cloud Storage and Gladinet ! Looking back to year 2010, Gladinet went from a single product ( Cloud Desktop ) to a suite of products, including CloudAFS (server product), Cloud Backup (backup product) and Cloud Space (management framework), in addition to Cloud Desktop 2.0 release. As we learn from our customers and partners, an access solution is what people is looking for when it comes to cloud storage. People need on-premise access; people need off-premise access; people need backup solutions (a specialized access) and people need a central management portal. In year 2010, Gladinet has transformed products into a suite of Cloud Storage Access Solutions. Looking forward to year 2011, version 3.0 is coming with 2-way synchronization and version control. The access suite will be more advanced with more interoperability between different products. The management framework will be more sophisticated to support...

  Support bucket mounting in Amazon S3 In this release, users can directly mount an Amazon S3 bucket. The advantages of mounting a bucket, instead of S3 as a whole include: Support for all Amazon regions, including US, US West, Europe and Asia Pacific. Can add files in the root of the mounted virtual directory, while Amazon S3 doesn't support files at the root level. Less buckets to manage in Amazon S3 Support Dunkel Cloud Storage. Dunkel is an Amazon S3 compatible cloud storage in Germany. Support Converted Google Apps accounts A new mount called Converted Google Apps Account is added. It can be used for those Google Apps accounts which have been converted to Google Docs. For more details about Converted Google Apps account, please read this article . Support Hebrew In Management Console Support different international characters in Management Console.

With the recent introduction of Gladinet Cloud Desktop version 1.2, Gladinet has introduced the ability to create an automatic backup of your Google Docs files to a redundant array of cloud storage. This feature allows you to specify a Google Docs source account, a cloud storage target, and a monitoring interval. You can also specify whether you want to use a designated folder or backup all files. If you choose to use a drop box, any files moved to it will automatically get backed up to Amazon S3, EMC Atmos, Box.net, or whichever service you select. Otherwise, all files in the specified Google Docs account will be backed up by the monitoring thread at the specified interval. In either case, the backups are incremental and will just copy the changes. Version 1.2 also introduces support for the Windows 7 platform along with the following features and enhancements: • A New Virtual Directory Manager • A Simplified Systray Menu • An Improved Task Manager • The ability to pause or resume all...