Turning Open Stack Swift Into A Rich Business Ready Cloud Service
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Turning OpenStack Swift into a rich business ready Cloud Service
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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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‣ 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
Initial sign in
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‣ Each Cloud File Server can be branded
‣ Online and on-Premise hosted Cloud Appliance can have ‘deeper’ branding
• All desktop and mobile tools can be branded for on-premise use of the SME Appliance
Branding & Unique login page
Custom Branding
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‣ Cloud File Server Administrators have additional options
‣ This enables them to ‘control’ the cloud file server users, options, security, and governance.
Branding
Cloud File Server Admin
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‣ ‘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
Homepage Widgets
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‣ 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
User Management
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Active Directory & BYOD integration
Active Directory / BYOD
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‣ Rich / functional web file manager
• Separate ‘lite’ file manager for locked down browsers
• Visualises all OpenStack Data
shared folders
File Manager
drag / drop files straight onto webpage
supports file Locking & encryption
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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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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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‣ Rich sharing options
• Share by secure link, time expiry, over email, to external groups
Sharing Options
URL Sharing
Email sharing
Group Sharing
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‣ 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
Encryption
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‣ 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
Sharing files Internally
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‣ 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)
Sharing files externally
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‣ 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
Sharing files over email
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‣ Quick search interface
• Search against all Swift indexed meta-data quickly
• Works from any client
Searching files
Tagged file search
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‣ Set sophisticated notification options for when files are added to a shared folder
File notifications
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‣ Audit each file event
• For security
• For legislative purposes
Event Auditing
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‣ Sophisticated Options
• For management
• Corporate governance
• Security
• Branding
• Encryption
• Versioning
Sophisticated options
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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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Mac Linux
Windows
Native desktop Drives + Sync
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Native Clients for all mobiles / tablets