Storage Made Easy™

Enterprise File Fabric™

Feature List

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CLOUD CONNECTORS SUPPORTED (II)

SME Default Storage provided on SaaS platform uses Amazon S3

Amazon S3 Key / Secret Key Auth
Leonovus REST API
Gmail OAuth used to connect
Box OAuth
Email Archive, Backup, Index, Emails and attachments
RackSpace Cloud Files Key / Secret Key
Google Docs OAuth
FTP/FTPS/SFTP pervasive protocol, use to connect to on-site storage
WebDav pervasive protocol, use to connect to to on-site storage
CIFS Dedicated CIFS connector (for on-premise only)
Google Apps Email OAuth
OneDrive Oauth
DropBox Oauth
Egnyte WebDav protocol
Zimbra username / password
FilesAnywhere username / password
Google Storage Key / Secret Key Auth
Windows Azure Key / Secret Key Auth
CloudMe username . Password Auth
Sharepoint SharePoint protocol used to connect
SafeSync username / password
Amazon Cloud Drive username/password
Google sites Oauth
Huddle OAuth (Enabled on request)
OpenStack Key tenants v1, v2, v3
SwiftStack OpenStack Key tenants
Open S3 - S3 Compatible Key / Secret key - supports any S3 compatible storage
Alfresco On-Premise username / password - webdav like protocol
Office 365 SharePoint protocol used to connect
iKeepinCloud WebDav like protocol
EMC Atmos EMC Atmos API and S3 API
IBM COS S3 compatible API

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CLOUD CONNECTORS SUPPORTED (III)

PogoPlug username / password – PogoPlug API still in beta

Evernote Username / Password – Index Only
FileNetSME CMIS Connector
Documentum SME CMIS Connector
OpenText SME CMIS Connector
IBM FileNet SME CMIS Connector
HGS ActiveScale Using S3 compatible API
Nuxeo SME CMIS Connector
NemakiWare SME CMIS Connector
Basecamp BaseCamp V2 Oauth. Username/password for BC V1
SugarSync username / password
Instapaper username / password – Index only
HostingSolutions.it S3 interface API
HP Cloud Based OnOpenStack
OneDrive Oauth
Scality Using S3 compatible API
Jive Hostname with Username / Password
IBM Connection Files username / password
Memset Memstore Based OnOpenStack
Google Drive Oauth
Amazon S3 DES-CBC3-SHA Secure US Federal Government
Amazon S3 RC4-MD5 Secure US Federal Government
Nifty Cloud Storage Supported using S3 compatible API
Connectria Supported using S3 compatible API
Constant Cloud Storage Supported using S3 compatible API
Tiscali Cloud Storage Supported using S3 compatible API
GreenQloud Supported using S3 compatible API
SeeWeb Cloud Storage Supported using S3 compatible API
Riakcs Supported using S3 compatible API
Cloudian Supported using S3 compatible API
LunaCloud Supported using S3 compatible API

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CLOUD CONNECTORS SUPPORTED (IV)

HostEurope Supported using S3 compatible API

Ceph Supported using S3 compatible API and also RADOS
Minio Supported using S3 compatible API
Softlayer Supported using OpenStack API
Mirantis Supported using OpenStack API
NetGear ReadyNas Supported using WebDav Provider
Dunkel Storage Supported using S3 compatible API
CloudVPS Supported using OpenStack API
SalesForce OAuth
Caringo Swarm Obj. Storage Supported using S3 compatible API
HPSS Default Authentication access
SpectrumScale (GPFS) Via OpenStack / S3 API
IZO™ Cloud Storage Via OpenStack API
Open.io OpenStack
Object Matrix Supported using S3 compatible API

PROTOCOL / INTERFACE SUPPORT

(APPLICABLE TO ALL DATA ENDPOINTS)

WebDav WebDav interface over any mapped cloud

SME API Rest API
FTP / FTPS Interface FTP / FTPS Interface over any mapped cloud
SFTP Interface SFTP Interface over any mapped cloud
S3 interface S3 interface over any mapped cloud
Ports Required Port 80 and/or 443 is required
For FTP port 21 is required and for FTPS. port 990
For SFTP port 2200 is required

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USER MANAGEMENT

Batch User Creation xls, cvs import, AD / LDAP Import, Automated provision on
first login
Active Directory Integration Fully Supported. Multiple Domains and failover
proxy support
LDAP Integration Fully Supported (tested again OpenLDAP)
SAML Integration SAML integrations is based on SAML v2.0 specifications
Single Sign on Support Active Directory, LDAP out of the box, other Identity 

Management systems as needed
Block User access BYOD device blocking is supported plus best of breed
integration
User Profiles User Quota management, Group/Role management

ADMINISTRATION

Administer Users Either SME or delegated to LDAP or Active Directory

Administer Security Comprehensive options
Administer User Passwords Additionally set lock out controls an strong passwords
Add additional Admins Able to limit subset of features
Administer Notifications Comprehensive options
Administer File Events Comprehensive options
Administer Folder permissions Folder permissions can be different at nested levels
Administer File sharing Set policies
Administer Devices Enable / disallow devices
Set User quotas on a per user basis
Provisioning API Supports integration with custom provisioning systems
SNMP Traps The base Operating System is Linux therefore all SNMP
traps are fully supported
Monitoring The Base Operating Systems is Linux therefore normal
monitoring tools/Apps, such as Nagios, can be used

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SECURE FILE SHARING

Support for shared folder Support also for password protecting shared folder
Shared folder URL Support for providing a URL where users can drop files
Shared folder permissions Supported either via SME Identity management or AD/LDAP
Subfolder permission control Sub folder permissions can be different to parent folder
permissions
Group / E-Room Access Supported with Business WorkSpaces
File Change Notification Can be configured with Audit Watch rules
Distributed File Locking Requires Cluster module
Comments and Notifications Comment collaboration can be real time
Shared file expiration Set passwords and time expiry on files
and password controls
Built in messaging Send users messages via web interface. Also supported
on Mobile
Fax integration By default with Interfax service
SMS integration Ability to integrate with Twilio for SME file events and
shared link password notifications
Data workflow rules For Group/E-Room shares
Email integration Share files direct from email Outlook Plugin, Mac Mail
Plugin and also filebox to email attachments to a folder
Mobile File Sharing With same restrictions as per polices that are set
Restrict / control file sharing Admin control point
File Share support on devices iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Tablet, Windows
Phone, other devices via HTML5 mobile App
File Share support on desktop Windows, Mac, Linux
Enable external users to Supported using the ‘Drop Folder’ feature. External users
Share files Can received or share files using a designated password 

protected folder.

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FILES (OTHER)

Tag / Classification For easy grouping and classification of data

Unified content search Single namespace across multiple storage or data endpoints
Favourite files Favourite files for quick access across Apps and devices
Contacts Create and store contracts directly within the Cloud File
Server for use with file sharing
Create files Create new files from the web / mobile / desktop interfaces
for txt, doc, xls, ppt or html for editing
File Comments Each file has full file commenting availability and users can
collaborate in real-time on comments
Trash Bin Concept Recycle Bin concept to prevent accidental deletion

IDENTITY MANAGEMENT

SME Identity Management Secure Token Authentication, X500 style use /

system directory management
Bulk Import of Users Using CSV or excel files
Active Directory/LDAP/SAML Inclusive of Multi-Domain support for each IAM system
Google Identity Management Yes, using SAML
Integration with third On demand, paid engagement
party providers

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ACCESS CONTROL PERMISSIONS

Shared Folder Granular Sub Folders different permissions to parent

permissions
Creation of shared folders As designated by Group/Role
by users
Read only access to folders Note this is different to DLP view only
Read/Write access
for users/roles
No access for users and roles
Shared sub folder permissions Providers management of shared sub folder permissions
Restrict access by IP address e.g office only or by country
Restrict access by Client type e.g web and Windows tools only
Restrict shared folder creation
Granular control on user
capabilities
Set storage Quotas per user
Set secure File Sharing Configure default time expiry, whether a password should
Polices be set, how many times a file can be downloaded
Virtual Workspace Control sharing with external users via a separation of
access control Concerns between internal and external sharing for security
reasons
Team Folder quota Quota management on team folders
management

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GOVERNANCE

Event Auditing Comprehensive event auditing for user actions and file
actions. Can be exported as time series data
Audit granularity Ability to set audit options around types of events to
monitor
Event notifications On Audit events – set an Audit Watch
Audit integration Exportable as CSV/Excel. An API / stream interface is also
provided
Reporting On bandwidth or storage used per user, role or department
Geo location logging The platform support GEO Location features for all
document uploads which records the IP address and Town /
Country of Origin, and the IP Address Town / Destination
Country where the upload is accepted
Administration role Admin role for each Account. Can be more than one admin
GEO Location restrictions Restrict where the server can be used from by IP address
Block device / App use As part of BYOD management capabilities devices or Apps
can be blocked from use on a per user basis. The solution
can also integrate with best of breed BYOD solutions such
as BlackBerry Sector, Oracle Mobility, Mobile Iron
Set File Sharing policies Configure default time expiry, whether a password should
be set and how many times a file can be downloaded
BYOD As part of BYOD management capabilities devices or Apps
can be blocked from use on a per user basis. The solution
can also integrate with best of breed BYOD solutions ie
BlackBerry Sector, Oracle Mobility & Mobile Iron
DLP Web View Only permissions. Document / image
watermarking, Policies, PII / SPI Search
Multi-factor Authentication Setup secondary authentication, such as Google
(2FA) Authenticator, or email, in order to access the account
PII Detection The PII Content Detection module can be configured to
detect PII data. It ships with 60 common PII entities and
can be further self-configured.

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FILE SECURITY

FIP compliant Encryption All files can be made secure using managed
- from client to storage encryption, even if the underlying storage
(AES 256 bit encryption of Cloud does not support encryption. Managed encryption is
data stored.) controlled by the Cloud Administrator
Private encrypted links Any shared files that are encrypted will need to have a key
entered for file access. This can also be centralised so the
administrator of the Cloud sets the encryption key for all
users
Private shared time based link Links expire based on time set
Full audit on all shared links
Reason for file sharing Enforce users to add a reason for sharing a file
Set password for shared links Password required to access link (where files are not
encrypted)
Expire shared links manually
Control number of file Set a policy to control number of file link downloads
link downloads
Enable/Disable collaboration
features
Full User actions Audit Administrator can turn on event auditing and control the
granularity so that all file events are logged for all users
and the unique IP address is recorded against the event
Geo Location logging The platform support GEO Location features for all
document uploads which records the IP address and Town /
Country of Origin, and the IP Address Town / Destination
Country where the upload is accepted
Ransomware ready Setup a replica that retains original files using ‘Forever File’
feature

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COLLABORATION

Shared folders The Organization shared folders feature enables special

folders to be set that all users in the Organization will see
and access the content of these folders. This is a great way
to store common organization data and ensure that all
users have access to company content such as Marketing,
Human Resource literature etc

Online browser concurrent With Zoho Office API key registration (Microsoft office
document being integrated)

Collaboration with external Each user has the ability create virtual collaboration groups
users in which users can be invited to share content. Each
member can, if required, be given permission to share
content with the group and the group can be configured for
all members to see each other, or not

Auto Sharing File Rules Specifically works with the virtual collaboration groups
and enables sharing of content based on rules
ACL Can be set for Shared Folder and virtual collaboration
groups
File locking Users can lock files if they don’t want other collaborators to
update the file being worked on
Unlimited Document Document versions are support and you can view previous
versioning support versions
Built in messaging for Messaging is built into the platform so users can send each
collaboration other messages from the web, windows or iOS platforms
Comment on files Users informed of comments via notifications
Unlimited Document Version The platform provides document version support to view
support previous version of documents
Email files directly to shared Using ‘FileBox’ feature
folders

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COLLABORATION (II)

File / Folder Sharing Advanced file sharing features which include sharing files
over email, Twitter and RSS. Each file also has its own
unique URL. File shares can also be set to expire after a
number of days for safety
Fax integration Integrate with the Interfax service which enables users to
send documents as faxes directly from our service. An
Interfax account is needed
Workflow rules Rules can be set on data so that users are emailed if new
files are uploaded to a specific folder, or file versions
changes. Users can filter on certain types of file extensions
or set all file extensions
Approval Workflow Simple user based Workflow approval on file is supported
Slack Integration Files can be shared easily, and privately over Slack using
the File Fabric Slack Connector.

LANGUAGE SUPPORT

Multi-Language Support-web Using PO files. Can be self-administered and added

Multi-Language Support-Apps Using device localization strings

ARCHITECTURE

Scalable Architecture HA n-tier architecture Classic n-tier

Multiple Deployment options Depending on load requirements
Solution is highly available & Tested with multiple thousands of users and millions of
scalable files. Largest single deployed user base is for 350,000 users
Data Access Can access data using Rest API, SME Client Aps, FTPS, FTP,
WebDav, de-facto Amazon S3 API

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SEARCH

Unified Cloud Content Search With full search operators

Tagged files Allows for grouping of data from disparate clouds and easy
search
Content Search Integration with Apache Lucene / SOLR for search of
document content across any mapped cloud and data
discovery for compliance / classification

CLIENT APPS

Web Browser Hierarchical File Manager designed to easily navigate large

data sets
iOS client Native iPhone and iPad App
Android Client Native Android App
Windows 8 Tablet App Native Windows 8 Tablet App
BlackBerry Client Native BlackBerry App
Windows Native, Drive, Sync, Office Plug In's , Outlook Plugin,
dedicated explorer App
Mac Native, Drive, Sync, Spotlight search of date in clouds, Mac
Mail plugin
Linux Native, Drive, Sync, dedicated explorer App
WordPress Backup Plugin Backup WordPress data to any cloud
WordPress file share Plugin Share files from WordPress (with password and audit
support)
Web Browser Plug-In's For Chrome, Safari, Firefox
SalesForce Force App App that integrates directly into SalesForce for behind the
file private file sharing
Slack Integration sharing Integration with Slack for private file
Gmail/Firefox Chrome Ext. Secure file attachments for Gmail (web)
Music Streamer App Mac only - built as proof of concept. Streams music for an
mp3 file for any storage back-end

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DEPLOYMENT MODEL

On-Site Use Behind corporate firewall as cloud control point

Cloud only Use
IaaS deployment AWS EC2, RackSpace, Linode, Memset etc
EC2 Deployment

Supplied as a software ie VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM, XEN, OVF. Can also be deployed
appliance image as a Virtual Box image or as an OpenStack Compute image
(Glance)

CUSTOMIZATION

White Label Branding Solution can be fully branded

App Branding Available for mobile and desktop
Internationalization Multi-Language is supported
User Terms / Policies etc Fully configurable

DATA BACKUP / DATA MIGRATION

Import / Export data between Using SME Cloud Import / Export feature
clouds
Cloud Migration capability For object storage clouds. Windows App only
Cloud to Cloud Archive/Backup Archive / Backup data from one cloud directly to another
cloud(s)
Cloud Copy / Move Drag and drop directly from the web file manager
Backup/Archive Email IMAP only. Email is backed up and each file becomes a text
file and is indexed for search

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DATA PROTECTION

File Versioning support Supported and can be controlled by Admin. Also versioned
view can be turned of in mobile and desktop apps. Web File
Manager has "visual view" of versioning
SSL On the wire TLS 1.2 supported encryption
Data at rest encryption Controlled by Cloud Admin for Team accounts
Public / private key data 256 bit SHA-1 AES FIPS Data encryption. Can also be
integrated with other encryption systems
Group Policy To define security settings for all users
Retention policy Data not deleted unless removed from trash
Background backup to SME Cloud-to-Cloud Archive (‘Forever File’)
secondary storage
Email Backup Any IMAP email box can be backed up and be scheduled to
be backed up at regular intervals
Large File Support SME supports file splitting at an abstract level above any
Cloud Provider and where cloud providers support this
concept at an API level it is integrated. An example of such
integration is OpenStack Swift Dynamic Large Objects
(DLO’s) which are supported. SME also supports concepts
such as MPU where they are supported by the storage
vendor
External Key Management Supports Hashicorp’s open source Vault for external
encryption key management

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CONTENT MANIPULATION

Create and Edit documents in Uses Zoho and Google Docs integration or a plain text
Web Browser editor or SME ‘CloudEdit’ feature
Edit Documents on Android Using SME FTP/Webdav and Microsoft Office or WPS Office
Edit documents on iOS Using SME WebDav, Apple iWork, Microsoft Office or other
WebDav enabled doc editors. The SME iOS App also allows
in-app editing of Cloud text files using our own technology.
Edit documents directly on Double click on docs from the cloud drive and use native
Windows editors or use SME MS Office or Libre Office Plug Ins
Edit documents directly on Double click on docs from the cloud drive and use native
Mac editors
Web document viewing SME integrates with Google viewer and also supports
on-premises web viewing if required.
PDF Annotations SME provides a fully featured HMTL5 PDF Annotation suite
with full ‘burn’ and Audit capabilities
WebDav / FTP Edit with any App that supports WebDav or FTP

CLUSTER MANAGEMENT

Cluster Management console Configure deployed instances to be clusterable and manage

users / quotas etc from a single server
Global Shared Folder Work on shared team folders on each clustered server in a
Connector single namespace
Multi-Site Single Namespace Can be configured with to work using several appliances
across geographies in a single namespace

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REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

Can be configured as part of working with the following Compliance Regimes:

HIPPA
FERPA
European Data Residency
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

SIMPLICITY AND USABILITY

Web based file manager Works like a desktop file manager with full drag and drop
support
Cloud/Net Drive Supports cloud drives across all desktop operating systems
akin to a users file server drive for simplicity & ease of use
Sync Full support for drop box like sync
Packagers SME supplies packagers to enterprise customers in which
they can self configure end user features & brand the Apps

FILE ACCELERATION

M-Stream The File Fabric’s M-Stream feature enables file acceleration

between on-premises and object storage data sets, for both
upload and download. M-Stream is certified for SwiftStack/

OpenStack, Amazon S3, Cloudian, Scality, IBM COS, CIFS, 

Mounted File System

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