Western Digital and Ctera Partnering

Western Digital Corporation and CTERA Networks, Ltd. announced a certified solution for IT organizations to build private clouds that combine enterprise-grade file sharing, data protection, and branch office file storage capabilities with object storage and cloud orchestration.

The joint solution combines the scalable HGST Active Archive System with CTERA’s Enterprise File Services platform to enable enterprise organizations and service providers to launch enterprise file services with security, simplicity and affordability. By building a private cloud, organizations can limit the privacy, security and data sovereignty concerns associated with public SaaS solutions, while realizing the benefits of cloud technologies and software-defined infrastructure.

Solution from HGST and CTERA delivers following file services:

• Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS): A private alternative to consumer-grade cloud SaaS services that features centralized management, a modern user experience and advanced encryption and authentication.
• Cloud Storage Gateways: All-in-one, centrally-managed office storage appliances that integrate NAS file sharing, and cloud DR to remove the complexities of legacy file servers, remote backup systems and offsite vaulting services.
• Endpoint and Server Backup: Simple, secure, centrally-managed data protection agents for workstations and servers featuring direct-to-cloud or disk-to-disk-to-cloud (hybrid) backup that optimizes recovery times and BC.
  

“The explosion of unstructured data and proliferation of unsanctioned, consumer-grade SaaS services across the enterprise is creating significant IT concerns for file and data protection,” said Jeff Denworth, CTERA SVP marketing. “CTERA’s integration with the HGST Active Archive System puts secure private cloud file services easily within reach for enterprises and service providers who are leading the cloud IT-as-a-Service transformation.“

The HGST Active Archive System is Amazon S3-compliant and a scale-out object storage solution with the ability to scale total raw capacity from 672TB to hundreds of petabytes. Combined with the CTERA Enterprise File Services platform, the joint solution offers file services for remote and branch offices, enterprise file sync and share, as well as server and endpoint backup capabilities. Additionally, by utilizing distributed erasure coding, files and services remain available even in the event of a data center outage, maintaining a consistent global view and data accessibility from any location.

“Data across the enterprise comes in many types and formats and the rising number of disparate storage silos is causing fragmentation in corporate infrastructure,” said Dave Tang, SVP, data center systems business unit, Western Digital. “By certifying the solution with CTERA, the HGST Active Archive System enables any organization to deploy a private and secure cloud. Additionally, this will simplify the modernization of legacy data systems, which will allow enterprises and service providers to offer IT-as-a-service and accelerate business.“