Storage Made Easy Enterprise File Share and Sync Fabric Cloud Control and Cloud Governance

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Storage Made Easy Enterprise File Share and Sync Fabric

Cloud Control and Cloud Governance


As companies, both large and small, embrace both private and public cloud Information Governance, as an IT initiative begins to feature higher on a companies agenda.

Although Information Governance is a pre-requisite for certain industry vertical such as legal and medical, companies tend to try and solve specific point issues rather than implementing an Information Governance framework. Examples of these are Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or Mobile Device Management (MDM) policies that whilst in some cases needed, is only one example of the disciplines around information that is required.

With the rise of Cloud use companies, amidst the high level of reporting on cloud breaches, tend to be much more interested when the term Cloud Data Governance is used rather than just plain old Information Governance but the reality is that Governance on Cloud should be part of a holistic Information Governance strategy.

The issue with an Information Governance framework is that it is all encompassing and it needs to be committed to from senior executives within the business. With competing projects in every business and the ROI of Information Governance hard to quantify it can be difficult to get buy-in and obtain funding for a non-revenue-generating initiative, whilst in-vogue points solutions that form part of such an initiative , like BYOD, are committed to and implemented.

CLOUD CONTROL AND CLOUD GOVERNANCE

Cloud Information Governance


There is little doubt that storing and accessing business data across on-premise and geographically dispersed cloud computing environments are likely to present control challenges, and ever-increasingly, regulatory challenges.

It stands to reason therefore that implanting an Information Governance strategy is a necessary process for any business that has both both physical and digital records, that span on-premise and cloud environments.

An Information Governance strategy should first and foremost be thought of as protecting a companies core asset, its data. The ROI or payback of such an implementation centres around:

Risk Mitigation: Protect from breaching existing regulations and be ready for forthcoming regulations.

Increased Data quality

Cost Reduction: Why a cost reduction ? An IG policy can reduce Operational Risk Management insurances and can reduce costs due to a reduction in Redundant, Obsolete and Trivial data (ROT).

Increased Security

Information Governance is not all about technology of course, if anything it is 1 part technology and 2 parts process and this needs to be recognised upfront.

When Storage Made Easy set out building its product it took an early decision not to include any storage as part of our Enterprise File Share and Sync solution ? Why ? This was because companies already have a wealth of storage systems coupled with a number of other systems that stored and work with data and we did not want to add to this sprawl, we wanted to help facilitate the control of it.

This is of course exacerbated by Cloud as it opens up the kimono for more data (often duplicative) to be stored in more places, that are not under corporate control or in a corporate environment.

It is this combination of existing in-house Storage/Apps coupled with Cloud Apps/Storage/ Services that provides such a challenge for Information Governance and control.



What Storage Made Easy wanted to build, and eventually did, was to provide a system that could interact and work with multiple storage an services and provide a single pane of glass or a control point for these data and systems.

In building out this solution SME was also able to provide:

Integration into common productivity tools such as Outlook, MS Office, OpenOffice etc that work across all data services and whose use of therefore provide e-discovery and audit information on file sharing / file access.

A common framework point for logging and auditing that can be used to provide even data that encompass all data services in use within the organization.

An Audit Watch facility that can monitor events in real time and notify nominated administrators depending on the rule set up.

Common single sign (SSO) across data services.

GEO control restrictions on access

An Audit service that records all file events across all mapped services and all remote access events with logged IP access addresses.



A policy framework for file sharing

Archiving rules to Archive old data from services in use.

The solution can also be used as a standalone Enterprise File Share and Sync solution with one

back-end data store, often object storage, and we have many companies using it this way also,

but it really shines when it is used in the way it was intended which is as a control point across

Storage and SaaS data services.

Summary

In and of itself the SME solution would form only part of an Information Governance strategy,

but its ability to join up data silos and promote visibility of the core company data asset in an

obtrusive way enabled it focus specifically on the digital (file) elements specific to Information

Governance.


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