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Ctera Platform: Enhancements Simplify Cloud Migration and User Security for Enterprise File Services and Data Protection

Cross-cloud data migration tools eliminate lock-in; ILM tools optimize cloud storage costs; identity management integrations enable secure user authentication.

Ctera Networks, Ltd. introduced cloud data management capabilities that allow enterprise organizations to easily and securely implement file service and data protection strategies.

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The enhancements to the company’s Enterprise File Services Platform enable IT organizations to migrate data across any data center and cloud infrastructure, optimize storage infrastructure costs through intelligent file management, and simplify user access to enterprise data through new identity management integrations.

The Enterprise File Services Platform enables enterprise IT to protect data and manage files across endpoints, offices, and the cloud – all within the organization’s on-premises or virtual on-premises cloud storage. The platform is powered by firm’s cloud service delivery middleware that IT-as-a-Service organizations leverage to create, deliver, and manage cloud storage-based services such as enterprise file sync and share (EFSS), in-cloud data protection, endpoint and remote server backup, and office storage modernization.

Enhancements to Enterprise File Services Platform include:

  • Cloud storage migration: Organizations can now migrate data across cloud storage infrastructure without experiencing system downtime or end user service interruption. By migrating data across storage nodes of any type or location, the company’s platform enables applications and data to easily and securely flow from one data center to any other data center, helping organizations to avoid vendor and/or platform lock-in, and embrace cloud strategies with confidence.

  • Information lifecycle management: The platform leverages ILM tools from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and NetApp StorageGRID to intelligently place files in cloud storage tiers according to their application profile. Long-term archive and backup data can be directed to low cost storage tiers, such as Amazon Web Services‘s (AWS) Amazon S3-Standard Infrequent Access tier (Standard – IA), while interactive data (EFSS content) can be stored on storage tiers that offer cost-optimized ingress and egress, helping to reduce customers’ overall cloud infrastructure investments by 10 to 20%.

  • SAML 2.0 and support for Single Sign-On (SSO) utilities: the solution supports identity federation over Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 to enable IT organizations to centralize corporate user identity management and provide SSO capabilities for file and backup access. In conjunction with support for this new standard, the company has now certified compatibility with SSO offerings, including Microsoft ADFS 2.0, Okta, OneLogin, and Ping Identity.

As customers increasingly migrate their businesses to AWS, they realize the full value of our infrastructure as they reduce operational costs, scale their systems quickly and optimize for their strategic initiatives,” said Bill Vass, VP, technology, Amazon Web Services, Inc.We’re working with companies like Ctera to help IT organizations on their journey to secure cloud file services delivery and to intelligently utilize and optimize AWS engineering that enables the greatest levels of application performance and value.

Organizations with the ability to leverage the right clouds for the right jobs are going to deliver significant business gains as they embrace new models of IT consumption,” said Jeff Denworth, SVP marketing, Ctera. “Ctera’s IT-as-a-Service platform addresses multiple enterprise use cases with a single platform designed to help IT organizations become more efficient and enterprise end users become more productive.

Supporting resources:
Blog Post: Platform Updates for the Multi-Cloud Era
CTERA Service Orchestration update: A comprehensive listing of all new features
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