Storage Made Easy IBM SoftLayer Cloud Experience to Spanish Grupo Urbegi

Storage Made Easy (SME), a trading name of Vehera Ltd announced that S&M Cloud, a Spanish cloud solution provider, has integrated the SME Private Enterprise File Share and Sync Fabric to provide an evolved cloud experience promoting a layer for all of their data security and data monitoring activities.

SoftLayer, an IBM company, provides cloud infrastructure as a service from a growing number of data centres and network points of presence around the world. S&M Cloud is an IBM SoftLayer partners in Spain and have received the IBM award for The Best Cloud Partner of the Year.

With this offering, S&M Cloud customers can manage corporate collaboration and file sharing for unified control of enterprise assets, satisfying existing and forthcoming corporate governance regulations. The joint offering of SoftLayer and SME offers these customers the ability to revoke access, audit in real-time, produce dated time restriction, password protection, all via SME an Enterprise File Share and Sync Fabric, integrated with SoftLayer’s object storage.

Luis A. Alonso, S&M Cloud co-founder, said: “We provide a storage as a service solution to our customers partnering with IBM SoftLayer and Storage Made Easy, enabling secure access to SoftLayer from any desktop, web and mobile devices. Grupo Urbegi is one of our most important clients using the leading enterprise file share and sync solution.”

Cristina Solar, finance director, Grupo Urbegi, said: “We are operating in Spain, Colombia and Mexico in our 10 offices. After evaluating other providers, we decided to implement the Storage Made Easy solution as it was the best product we tested so far. We needed to set governance and audit controls, and also had a requirement for a hybrid solution to access data in a secure way on different public clouds. We are a company with an emphasis on adhering to the law with regards to protection of personal data, particularly as we work with vulnerable people. It is therefore imperative for us to know who, where and when data is being accessed.“

In addition to SoftLayer, the Storage Made Easy solution supports more than 50 private and public data clouds and services such as OpenStack, Amazon S3, Cloudian, SwiftStack.

SME CEO Jim Liddle, said: “Security and privacy are without a doubt the biggest concerns when it comes to adoption of the cloud. A company often feels that it loses direct control over many aspects of security with regards to data stored on cloud. The Storage Made Easy solution provides a way of handing control back to companies so that they can easily policy set, control and monitor data in addition full audit logging reports that can be handed off to a compliance officer if required.“