On-premises Cloud File access: Storage, Sync, and share.
Everyone seems to be talking about EMC’s new private cloud collaboration offering Syncplicity. And why shouldn’t they be, from everything I’ve seen it looks like a great offering if you are looking to allow corporate users to easily and safely access their files anywhere and on any device while keeping your data stored on your own datacenter. The basic idea is simple and elegant. It allows you to offer a service where your users can sync and share files across all the various platforms. How does it all work? You have four basic elements: client access, authentication, application nodes, and storage. The storage part of this picture is what sets this apart from the dropboxes of the world. On-premises infrastructure. Rather than pushing your data to an external provider you keep all your data on your own equipment in your datacenter. You’ve got two options for storing you’re files EMC Atoms and EMC Isilon. The secondRead More →