SME Cloud Storage Service Broker OEM and White Label options for Service Providers

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BUSINESS BENEFITS

Increase Revenue Define differentiated propositions and offer desktop and mobile clients to increase revenue.

Reduce Time to Market leverage the Cloud Appliance and tools to quickly launch a branded solution on top of your own product with multiple tools and services.

Reduce your Costs Reduce the costs of building your own clients and solutions and quickly ramp.

Use your Own Storage: Use your own existing Storage or choose open Storage solutions such as OpenStack

Differentiate your offering As well as anytime anywhere access using the many desktop and mobile tools we support, easily add support for other storage services such as Google Docs, Amazon S3 etc. The Appliance supports over 30 storage services which can be added at a click of a button !

We make it simple to engage. If you are a service provider interested in a white label or an OEM into your existing technology, we can accommodate both.

Service Providers can choose to use the Cloud Appliance with support for the web option only or can decide upon also to include desktop (Mac, Windows, Linux) and mobile clients (BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Android, iOS, Windows RT Surface).

Pricing options work as follows:

- An monthly or annual subscription fee dependent on package

- A per user charge per month variable based on tooling options.

- Packages for assistance with branding and/or integration into your environment.

The service is multi-tenant so Service Providers can choose to manage many customers from a single Appliance (HA Options available) or they can offer the Appliance in individual instances to specific customers or even resell hybrid instances of the Appliance for on-premise customer use.

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WHAT IS THE CLOUD APPLIANCE ?

The SME Cloud Appliance is a software platform that enables companies to create a compelling and differentiated storage or ‘Cloud’ proposition through the use of their existing Storage Platform or using any of the 45+ Clouds supported by the Appliance.

The Platform is a multi-tenant solution that works with existing storage clouds, or can be used with newly added storage clouds such as OpenStack Swift, or EMC Atmos, for examp l e . I t c an qu i ck l y be configured to support individual consumer, or business propositions, that a company can define and customize.

The Platform consists of a Cloud Appliance, supplied as a VMWARE or hypervisor agnostic format, which can be integrated with over 45 storage Clouds and which features meta-data technology that stores information about files that are hosted on one or more storage platforms.

The Platform quickly enables access and in tegra t ion po in t s tha t encompass all variety of operating systems, and all major mobile and tablet vendors.

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SME FEATURE OVERVIEW FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS

ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW




-Always ‘On’ Service: SME provide an “always on” web client and also other ways users can

interact with the service from any desktop or any mobile.

-Access and Manage files on any Cloud: Amazon S3, RackSpace, OpenStack Swift,

OneDrive, SharePoint / Office 365, CMIS, Google Apps, Google Drive, Box, DropBox, EMC

Atmos, PogoPlug, WebDav, FTP, SalesForce, Jive + more. Over 45 file clouds and SaaS services

are supported. All are available to be accessed and managed in a unique Cloud File System or

the service can simply show one cloud as desired. Using your existing storage on NAS/SAN is

also an option.

-Public / Private information management: Can work in combinations of customer’s

on-premise and ISP’s public ‘cloud’ storage.

-Document Management & Collaboration: The Appliance provides collaboration and

document management features including file locking, permissions, and file versioning. It also

integrates into systems that support the Content Management Interoperability Standard (CMIS)

-Advanced “Cloud Safe” features: Users can choose to have data stored in a nominated

Primary Cloud and have it automatically backed up to a Backup Cloud to ensure data is always

available it is needed. If the Primary is down, data is retrieved from the backup.

-Secure File Sharing: Provides advanced file sharing features which includes secure sharing

files over email. Each file can also be shared using its own unique URL. that can be set to expire

after a number of days, and given a password, for further security

-Encrypted Files: All files can be made secure using encryption, even if the underlying storage

cloud does not support encryption. Only the user who assigned the key knows it. It is not

stored on the service. Any shared files that are encrypted will need to have a key entered for

file access. Desktop tools are also available to un-encrypt files outside of the service.

-Use more than one cloud: Unlike other solutions SME does not mandate a data store or

restrict users to just one cloud (although it can). . All data is seen in a unique single view.


SOLUTION FEATURES




-Best of Breed Online Integrations: As well as offering desktop integration with

Microsoft Office and Open Office. SME also integrates best of breed online services such as

Zoho Office, Google Docs, and Microsoft Office, as well as providing inline text editing of files.

Other web integrations include MP3 and video streaming .

-Email Backup: / Archive: SME offer an email backup service that is easy to use and also

integrates with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express. The emails are sorted by

date and month and stored as files that can be searched and accessed from a users File

Manager.

-Secure Email Cloud File Sharing features: Share files securely directly from a plugin

within Outlook as short links which can be password protected or time expired. All such links

can be fully audited. Mac Mail is also supported in a similar fashion for Apple users.

-Intuitive File Manager Interface: SME provide an interface users already used too,

namely a windows file manager style management directly from within the browser. It even has

the concept of Trash before a file is finally deleted ! The same concept is used in all mobile

clients.

-Cloud Drives on every desktop: SME integrate directly in Mac, Windows, or Linux

desktops directly as a native ‘Cloud’ Drive plus additional cloud-synchronization-to-desktop

tools.

-Supports all mobiles: SME supports BlackBerry, Android, iPhone/iPad, Windows Phone ,

and the new Windows Surface RT Tablet. All brandable !

-BYOD Support: Support for Bring your Own Device (BYOD) management and governance.

-Fax Integration: SME integrates with the Interfax service which enables users to send

documents as faxes directly from the service. An Interfax account is needed.


SOLUTION FEATURES




-Collaboration WorkSpaces: WIth SME each user has the ability to create workspaces in

which people outside the company can be invited to share content. Each member can, if

required, be given permission to share content with the group and the group can be configured

for all members to see each other, or not.

When new files are uploaded to the group all members receive an automated email informing

them of new content. It is a great way to deal with partner networks, or geographically

distributed working groups.

-Cloud Governance / File Event Auditing: The service can be setup to audit log all file

events, including sharing, download or any type of access for historical, and legislative purposes.

A requirement for certain professions who wish to use the Cloud. Access can also be

restricted to specific IP addresses or IP address ranges.

-File Audit Watch - Set an Audit Watch on any file or folder and be notified of changes in

real-time.

-Email files directly to Folders: Files can be emailed directly to folder, and the service will

download them and store them at the emailed folder location in the underlying Cloud Store.

-SMS Notifications: SME can use Twitter as a messaging backbone for file event notifications

and can also offer integration with Clikatel or BulkSMS for event notifications

-Cross Cloud Search: Search for data across all information clouds that are mapped to the

Cloud File Server rather than trying to remember where a certain file or piece of information

is stored.

-Active Directory integration: The SME service can be integrated with Active Directory

so that users and Groups can be managed directly from Active Directory enabling single-sign-on

(SSO).


SOLUTION FEATURES




-Shared Folders: The Cloud File Server enables special folders to be set that all users in the

company can instantly access (dependent on permissions set). This is a great way to store

common organization data and ensure that all users have access to company content such as

Marketing, HR literature etc. These folders can be exposed from data that is stored on any

Cloud or information store that is mapped to the File Server.

-Secure Login: SME employs a secure token based login authentication, with expiry (if not

delegated to Active Directory).

-Visual Permissions: Cloud Administrators can set folder and file permissions across

information clouds, just like they used to on their departmental file server with a user driven

wizard.

-Unify Permissions: The Cloud File Server enables unified access permissions for access

across all Clouds that are mapped and exposed to the user base.

-GEO Location Recording: For some companies, ‘where they where’ when uploading data

and ‘where their data is stored ‘is important for legislative purposes. To this end SME GEO

records any data that is uploaded using the SME Cloud File Server.

-Advanced protocol access: The Cloud File Server exposes all mapped Clouds over FTP, ,

SFTP, WebDav and Amazon S3 compatible API’s even thought the underlying Clouds may not

support these API’s natively. This enables eases of integration with other Apps and systems that

use these API’s.

-REST API: The service has a rich REST API with an interactive API test harness. More can be

found on this at: http://storagemadeeasy.com/?p=apidoc

- Flexible Deployment: The Appliance is provided as on OVF compliant VMWARE image

but can be easily converted to HYPER-V, XEN,, KVM or VDI.

Full list of features available at: https://eu.storagemadeeasy.com/wiki/cloudappliance/features/


SOLUTION FEATURES



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