The Enterprise File Fabric for Wasabi

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Providing an Enterprise File Fabric™ for
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STORAGE MADE EASY FILE FABRIC WITH WASABI
Storage Made Easy™ File Fabric™ coupled with Wasabi hot storage allows organizations to realize
the beneﬁts of low cost, always available storage with easy to use data governance and
collaboration services.
Wasabi’s cloud-based object storage is designed for individuals and organizations that require a
high-performance, reliable, and secure data storage infrastructure at minimal cost.
The SME File Fabric solution enables IT to regain control of "cloud data sprawl" by unifying on-
premises and on-cloud ﬁles into a single easily managed infrastructure with policy-based controls
for governance, audit and security. The solution includes comprehensive support for Enterprise File
Sync and Share (EFSS) with collaboration through web, desktop and mobile devices.

SINGLE-SIGN-ON (SSO)
Companies can leverage their existing identity provider (IdP) to provide single-sign on and set access
control for Storage Made Easy File Fabric and Wasabi. SME supports SAML 2.0 and includes out of
the box connectors for LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory (AD).
Users can authenticate with the File Fabric login service using their existing corporate username
and password. Access is granted based on delegated authentication. SME does not store passwords
but passes requests to the underlying identity provider. Multiple identity providers can be chained
together, a common requirement for larger organizations.
Access control, or authorization, in SME can also be delegated to the identity provider by mapping
IdP roles to File Fabric groups. This makes it easy to set up permissions based on existing
organizational structures.
Users and user home directories can also be auto-created on ﬁrst login.

EXTENDING THE USE OF WASABI
Wasabi is a next generation cloud object store for today’s applications, and is ready for tomorrow’s
data challenges.
The use of object storage by end users, for shared folders for example, introduces security and
privacy concerns. Organizations want an easy way to access object storage data in addition to
knowing ‘who’ has access to data that is stored remotely, ’when’ they had access, and ‘what’ they did.
To this end SME extends the use of Wasabi in six critical areas:
1. Enabling sensitive data to be encrypted with a private key prior to being stored on Wasabi.
Such multi-layered encryption is a key tenant of GDPR and the private key is then needed before
the ﬁle can be retrieved and viewed.
2. Enabling share data to have ﬁle sharing policies in which, for example, a password has to be
assigned and / or links are set to be time expired.
This feature not only works from the web but is also integrated directly in Microsoft Outlook. SME
also provides a similar Mail add-in integration for Mac users that extends Mac Mail with similar
controls to the Outlook Add-In.

3. Full file event auditing is provided to enable companies to have complete audit logs for all file
events including remote file IP’s etc of users who downloaded documents and users who shared
documents and controls to set GEO location restrictions. This can also be configured to output in
syslog format to work with solutions such as Splunk and other log aggregators and can be used to
satisfy Subject Access Requests for PII / SPI data.
4. Enabling key data to be archived to / from Wasabi easily.
This provides a mechanism to backup infrequently used files to other storage options or to keep
copies of files available in the event of disaster recovery for flexible business continuity or to enable
quick recovery from Ransomware attacks.

5. Audit Watch
Cloud administrators can set up an Audit Watch on files which enables them to be informed in real
time of any file activity on any file or combination of files, or even a folder, that is stored on Wasabi.
Once the designated file event takes place the administrator will receive an alert informing them of
the event and which user invoked the event.
This can be extremely useful to keep informed, in real-time, of access to sensitive data that may be
for example pernicious and therefore be an early warning of a potential breach.

6. File Locking / File Versioning / Comments
File Locking is built in for files that are shared as part of a team folder. When files are opened in
editors they are automatically locked and unlocked
When files are updated or revised this creates a new versions of file and this file revisions are
handled by the SME solution. The administrator of the SME solution can control how many file
versions are kept and also easily restore previous versions.
File comments on files can be added to any file but are particularly useful to files that are stored in
Team folder. Team members can subscribe to receive notifications whenever the contents of a file
or folder are commented.

DRIVE ACCESS INTO WASABI FROM ANY DESKTOP
The Storage Made Easy Web Drives for Mac, Windows and Linux are a great opportunity to extend
access to Wasabi directly into a users desktop as a ‘Home Filer’ user replacement.
This is useful when the company needs to replace existing access to a ﬁle gateway. Devolving the
access to users by means of the drive is often a more scaleable and controlled means of access.
Wasabi Accessible from native Drives in Windows and Mac

EMAIL INTEGRATION WITH WASABI FROM OUTLOOK / MAC MAIL
Secure links to Wasabi files can be created directly from Microsoft Outlook and Mac Mail, or new
files can be uploaded from the desktop directly to Wasabi and shared as a link. All such files shared
in this manner are audited and can be password protected and time expired.

SEARCH THE CONTENTS OF FILES STORED ON WASABI
Wasabi can end up storing a lot of structured documents such as Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and PDF
files. As part of the Storage Made Easy solution a Cloud Content Connector can be used that
integrates with the provided Apache SOLR instances and indexes data remotely stored on Wasabi so
that file searches can be conducted on content and PII/SPI data identified.
iPhone Search Example:

UNIFY WASABI FILES AND PRIVATE DATA
Wasabi files and private data shares (CIFS / NFS / NAS / SAN) can be united in a single interface for
anywhere access through desktop cloud drives and mobile devices.
Although Storage Made Easy functions as an interface to Wasabi, companies can still take
advantage of uploading files direct to Wasabi, outside of the SME solution, as SME can ‘discover’
and index these new files on demand.
Also note that no files are stored on SME. SME does not replicate data, it indexes data about the
files including the location to download. File Caching is is done directly in the desktop or mobile
Apps.
Access files and local files shares in a united interface
from inside or outside the corporate firewall

USE THE BUILT IN PDF ANNOTATION TO MARK UP PDF FILES
STORED ON WASABI
Storage Made Easy provides a built in PDF Annotation suite that enables companies to easily
annotate against PDF documents stored on Wasabi.
The SME PDF solution is platform independent and works on multiple platforms such as Windows,
Mac Android, iOS, and Linux. It is developed in HTML5 technology and optimized for mobile devices
and desktop use.
As SME provides the ability to also tag documents stored, locating PDF documents is also easier.
All annotations are audible and the solution can be setup to work with issue codes and deﬁned
cases.
All annotations are audited and tracked providing an ideal solution for companies who operate in
the medical and legal industries as well as other other PDF ‘heavy’ industries who require PDF
annotation.
As the File Fabric provides the ability to also tag documents stored in Wasabi, as well as providing
full content search, locating PDF documents is also easier.

INTEGRATION WITH BEST OF BREED OFFICE EDITORS
The File Fabric provides customized web integration with the Zoho Oﬃce Editor (Zoho API key
required) which provides collaborative round trip creation and editing of documents stored on
Wasabi.
Also additionally / alternatively Storage Made Easy ships with its unique ‘CloudEdit’ functionality
that can open any oﬃce document for editing directly on a users desktop and save any changes
back to Wasabi.

PERFECT FOR AMAZON WORKSPACES OR REMOTE DESKTOP ACCESS
If you are using Amazon WorkSpaces, the new remote desktop service, or any another RDP solution
such as Citrix, the File Fabric Windows App Suite is a perfect for enabling users to work with Wasabi
data using the Cloud Drive and Cloud Sync features.
Enabling Cloud Drive and Sync access with WorkSpaces

SALESFORCE INTEGRATION
The File Fabric Salesforce integration enables Salesforce users to store documents privately on
Wasabi but continue to make the files accessible through salesforce as links.
This not only satisfies compliance regimes such as GDPR with regards personal data but additionally
such documents can also be encrypted and / or password protected for increased security.
This integration enables the use of Wasabi in a Hybrid Cloud mode? A Hybrid Cloud modes
offers advantages of using public cloud services, such as Salesforce, whilst enabling the ability to
continue to decide to of store certain types of data privately.
A hybrid cloud strategy can address the security concerns companies have of where sensitive
corporate data is stored by offering an alternative to a pure cloud or pure private
implementation.

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STORAGE MADE EASY®
The Storage Made Easy Enterprise File Fabric™ enables IT to regain control of
"cloud data sprawl" to unify on-premises and on-cloud ﬁles into a single easily
managed converged infrastructure with policy-based controls for governance,
audit and security.
The File Fabric solution provides a “blanket” enterprises wrap around all their
data: on premises, within public and private clouds, as well as on third-party
software vendor clouds (SharePoint Online and Salesforce for example).
Customers use the SME File Fabric product to unify corporate data to enable
workgroup collaboration with universal controls for security, encryption, audit,
and data access. Companies will have access to a greater understanding of
where and how sensitive data is stored, transferred, and accessible
with particular focus on how companies are able to police and audit data to
ensure enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in
addition to other regional data legislation.
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