The University of Lorraine chooses EFSS for use with Red Hat Ceph Storage

 
Storage Made Easy enables a true File Share and Sync Solution, an Enterprise ready corporate drop box, which allows IT admin to provide secure cloud access, governance and compliance of Ceph data, allowing the University of Lorraine’s end users to transparently work with files stored on the object storage.



The integrated infrastructure can easily be managed and used to set governance, audit and access controls on files, in addition to providing deep content search of indexed data from integration with the Apache SOLR open source search solution.
 
St?phane Dugravot, Project Leader at the Infrastructure and Services Department of University of Lorraine said, “Red Hat Ceph Storage is an astounding distributed file system. By enabling us to use our own storage in its traditional forms, block and file system, and less common, object storage, the University of Lorraine is now ready to face the challenges and changes currently disrupting the storage technologies industry.
 
Based on Ceph's object native layers, Librados, and previously on S3 object storage, Storage Made Easy is today the key tool that enables Ceph's power to reach our users' personal computers. Our first goal is to enable our researchers to find an easy, efficient and reliable way to store their files. The combination of Storage Made Easy and Red Hat Ceph Storage gives us new capabilities far beyond the research field.”
 
Jim Liddle, Storage Made Easy CEO, said, “Educational establishments have much in common with the Enterprise in that they are rapidly embracing Object Storage but require more than just archive and back up. The combination of object storage via Red Hat Ceph Storage with SME’s Enterprise File Share and Sync Fabric provides a flexible and agile solution that offers enhanced security features and which can help reduce the university's IT complexity and cost.”
 
“Object storage solutions such as Red Hat Ceph Storage bring new levels of scalability and performance to petabyte-scale applications, and it is well-suited for enterprise sync and share“, said Ben Cherian, director of Partners, Channel and Alliances for Storage and Big Data, Red Hat. “We are proud to collaborate with Storage Made Easy to bring the power and scale of object storage to researchers at the University of Lorraine.”