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

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Our Speakers

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.

Background

●  Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization

●  Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with users and suppliers

●  The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:

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Soonr Overview

•  Founded in 2005; HQ in Silicon Valley

•  Privately-‐funded, venture-‐backed. Key patents

•  500% growth over the past 3 years

•  Over 150,000 paying business customers, 400+ VARs and key partnerships

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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 = Security

○  Device Authentication

○  Remote Wipe

○  Access Denial


●  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 = 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

audited data centers •  Two-‐factor AuthenVcaVon

Trusted by more than 150,000 businesses worldwide

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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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