ScaleUp Brings OpenStack Swift to German Market

ScaleUp Technologies GmbH & Co. KG brings an OpenStack cloud to Germany and enhances the user experience with the Storage Made Easy Enterprise File Share and Sync Solution.

Storage Made Easy enables ISP’s and enterprises to create a file sync and share solution that uses OpenStack SWIFT cloud storage.

The ScaleUp Cloud File Server solution, utilizing SME, enables secure collaboration and file sharing across multiple devices. Differentiators of the SME solution are inbuilt governance and controls that provides companies a secure audit trail of all file activity, BYOD controls, company controlled encryption technology, in addition to being able to support other storage and SaaS technologies such as Amazon S3 and SalesForce.com, Inc. from a unified cloud file manager.

OpenStack Swift is a multi-tenant, scalable object storage system designed to store large amounts of unstructured data at low cost. The platform is becoming increasingly pervasive in the enterprise and with ISPs.

With the SME integration, ScaleUp, who have data centers in Berlin and Hamburg, is able to provide corporate IT with a secure scalable object storage solution accessible via API for volume based archiving and DR backups whilst also being able to offer companies the utility use of cloud storage for file synchronization and sharing whilst satisfying the strict need for corporate governance.

Jim Liddle Storage Made Easy CEO, said: “We see key service providers as a big part of our go to market globally and are very pleased to be working with ScaleUp in the German market, which is a key market for us in Europe.“

Gihan Behrmann, CEO, ScaleUp, commented: “Having chosen to work with Storage Made Easy, adding their web and mobile applications to our product portfolio, has given us the ability to extend the reach of our existing OpenStack cloud storage to end users. With the release of ScaleUp files we’re now offering a German-hosted enterprise-compliant cloud storage solution that is easily accessible with desktop and mobile apps.“

Providing secure file storage with control and auditing features for single and shared team use, ScaleUp files is available on Mac, Windows, iOS and Android. Packages range from free 2GB single user accounts to a fully featured 10.000GB team version at €9.90 monthly per user.