Are File Servers Holding Users Back? How To Increase Productivty While Securing Data

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Before Soonr, Ahmet was Vice President of Products at SpiderCloud Wireless, a venture-backed company developing small-cell infrastructure and service assurance platforms for mobile operators. Prior to that, Ahmet was Senior Vice President and CTO at Trapeze Networks where he led the company's wireless product portfolio and technology partnerships, paving the way for the acquisition of Trapeze by Belden and subsequently by Juniper Networks.

George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

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●  Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization

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Today’s Agenda

●  What End Users Are Demanding of IT to Be More Productive

●  What The Organization Demands of IT ●  Needs of the User vs. Needs of the Organization

●  IT Can’t Ignore The File Sync and Share Demand

●  IT Needs A Business Class File Sync and Share Solution

First Polling Question

First Polling Question

What Users Are Demanding

To Be More Productive

How Users Want To Be More Productive

●  Work Anywhere on Anything (desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone)

●  Access To All Their Data From

Anywhere/Anything ●  The Ability To Share Their Data

With Anyone/Anything ●  The Ability To Collaborate With

Anyone/Anything

What The Organization Demands

Protect The Organization

What The Organization Demands of IT

●  Protect Data ●  Eliminate Data Leakage ●  Reduce Costs ●  Improve User Productivity

Needs Of The User

vs. Needs Of The Organization

Needs of the User vs. Organization

●  Typical IT Response is User Demand Comes Second

●  Results in End-Users “Going Their

Own Way” ○  Buy Their Own Devices ○  Use Their Own Consumer Cloud

Offerings ○  Email Files to their Private Accounts

Second Polling Question

IT Can’t Ignore

The File Sync And Share Demand

What IT Can’t Ignore File Sync and Share

●  Avoid The Temptation of Consumer Cloud

●  Risks To Organization Data ●  Risks To User’s Productivity ●  IT Will End Up With More Work

IT Needs A Business Class

File Sync And Share Solution

Business Class File Sync and Share

●  Business Class Must = A Great End User Experience

○  Great Interface

○  File System Integration

○  Work On All Devices

○  No VPN

○  Easy To Sync And Share

○  Data Protection

Business Class File Sync and Share

●  Business Class = Security

○  Device Authentication

○  Remote Wipe

○  Access Denial

Business Class File Sync and Share

●  Business Class = IT Control

○  Visibility

§  To what is being shared §  to how it is being shared

with §  How long something has

been shared

Business Class File Sync and Share

●  Business Class = Increase User Productivity ○  Collaboration

§  Check in / Check out §  File Lock §  Share with non-service

users §  Render / Play within the

Interface §  In App editing on Devices

Introducing  Soonr  Workplace  

Cloud  File  Sharing  &  CollaboraVon  

Win, Mac, Linux iOS, Android, BB, Win

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•  Supports  all  major  devices  and  content  types  

•  Local  sync  for  offline  access  and  ease-­‐of-­‐use  

•  View,  edit,  annotate,  send,  save  and  more  on  mobile  

•  Soonr  Workplace  One-­‐App™  

Mobile  CollaboraVon  

Purpose-­‐built  for  Business  AND  Users  

•  Team-­‐based  approach  with  central  control  

 •  Highly  granular,  policy-­‐based  

control  of  content,  seats  and  devices  

 •  Integrates  into  corporate  

environments  through  APIs  and  plugins  

 •  Easy  for  users:  setup  and  go  

Enterprise-­‐grade  Security  •  Industry-­‐leading  upVme  and  

no-­‐breach  history    •  Geo-­‐redundant  and  local  data  

centers  (US,  CAN  &  EU)    •  HIPAA  compliant,  SSAE-­‐16  

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Summary

●  IT Can’t Ignore File Sync and Share - Most Provide Business Class Alternative

●  IT Can Offer A Better Solution That Improves User Productivity

●  IT Can Gain Better Control Over Data Assets

●  IT Can Reduce File Data Operational Costs

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