One of the biggest announcements we made at Synergy Barcelona is the "StorageZones" feature ShareFile Enterprise. StorageZones is now generally available for all new and existing customers of ShareFile Enterprise.
For most customers, the most interesting aspect is that it allows StorageZones Sharefile data to be located "on the spot" in its own data center one. For various reasons, compliance, data sovereignty, and performance data Sharefile placing the premises is something a number of our customers are interested. But this is far from the whole story about StorageZones, I'll get to later.
Before I jump into the details of StorageZones, we'll take a step back and describe the product architecture ShareFile. ShareFile consists of two subsystems:
- The Control system. This subsystem provides ShareFile Web application, account information (assuming you are not using Active Directory integration) and brokerage services. It is maintained in the data center Citrix, as our whole (SaaS) products such as GoToMeeting, GoToMyPC, etc. a-Service Software-as-note that customers will soon have the choice of setting up ShareFile accounts on the domain sharefile.eu, where the control system lives in our data center based in Frankfurt. This complements what we offer today, where the control system lives in our data centers based in the United States.
- The Storage system . This is where the files actually live. Before StorageZones, customers have a choice of 8-3 pitches cloud-based worldwide in the US, Dublin, Tokyo, Singapore, Sao Paolo and Sydney (added in early December 2012). operations Citrix ShareFile uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) in each of these places. The main component of the storage system that Citrix ShareFile Operations manages is called
With StorageZones, the storage system can be placed in a location "Storage Center." Citrix Locations managed or customer managed ( on site) locations. For locations managed by the customer, basically what we have done is to allow customers to install the Storage Center component to the location of their choice. You can find a video of this on CitrixTV.
StorageZones managed clients allow root folder locations to manually specify within a ShareFile account. For example, a sales record "Asia Pacific" could be located in Sydney area; a "UK Sales" file could be placed in an area in London. This ensures optimal performance for users, addresses and data sovereignty and compliance requirements for IT. Note that only one ShareFile account may use both Citrix StorageZones managed and managed by the customer
An important point about StorageZones :. This does not mean ShareFile became a 100% "on site" product. ShareFile is a software-as-a-service (SaaS), with the flexibility of hosting files either on site or in managed storage Citrix ShareFile Cloud. We firmly believe in the benefits of this architecture, that a SaaS approach keeps the product updated to our customers at all times and allows us to innovate and add new features quickly. This also reduces operational costs for our customers. For example, you never have to consider the costs and time involved in a project to upgrade a version of ShareFile to another. There are other products on the market that are installed and maintained 100% on site, such as traditional enterprise software. At present, this is not what we aspire to do with ShareFile
We aim to take StorageZones even further in the future *, and work on a number of different initiatives :.
- StorageZone connectors. The idea behind StorageZone Connectors to provide secure access to existing file stores, such as network shares and Microsoft SharePoint. Imagine your Windows file shares to be available on your iPad or iPhone next to your Sharefile data, and you get the idea. We just released a Tech Preview of StorageZone connectors, with support for access to network shares via iPad and iPhone apps.
- Support Citrix StorageZone more options managed beyond AWS. Global coverage with Amazon AWS is great, but we are also interested to support other cloud services with a presence in markets such as China, the US central, continental Europe, Australia, Canada, and much more. We announced our intention to support Microsoft Azure, and we are actively working with Microsoft to allow StorageZones Citrix managed and administered by the client in Azure.
- allows administrators to select specific areas of StorageZone Citrix managed to root- level folders. For example, if you have a global deployment, host files of your Asian users can be placed in AWS AWS-Singapore or Tokyo; and host files of your European users can be placed in AWS-Dublin.
With the general availability of ShareFile with StorageZones, we achieved an important milestone with the product. And as you can see, we are only beginning ...
Bill Carovano
ShareFile Product Management
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