In a major company milestone, CTERA Networks announced
today the culmination of its foundational product vision with the
release of version 5.0 of the CTERA Enterprise Data Services Platform.
The
new release represents two years of engineering effort to unify and
extend the capabilities of the CTERA Platform, and to empower IT
organizations with a single solution that ensures the complete privacy,
governance, and security of organizational data. The CTERA Platform
allows distributed enterprises and service providers to address every
aspect of online and offline file storage, file sharing and data
protection from a secure and centrally managed solution that can be
deployed entirely on the cloud infrastructure of their choice.
"CTERA
has embarked upon a journey with the modern enterprise, helping tens of
thousands of organizations transform enterprise IT departments into
IT-as-a-Service business partners by delivering a truly unified file
services and data protection solution that empowers both the employee
and the IT manager," said Liran Eshel, CEO and co-founder of CTERA
Networks. "With our milestone release of 5.0, data now follows the user
to wherever they work in the world, and IT governance follows the data."
Features and Benefits Designed for Users and IT
CTERA
5.0 is a comprehensive data services platform that features a
combination of software and hardware for IT organizations to easily
create, deploy
and manage storage-as-a-service solutions, including remote site
storage, backup, file sync and share, and mobile collaboration. The new
release delivers a number of features and benefits designed to enhance
the user and IT manager experience, including:
- Support for every data service in any location:CTERA's Platform isthe
only solution to combine data protection, enterprise file sync and
sharing and Remote Office / Branch Office (ROBO) NAS services in one
solution. With 5.0, CTERA cloud storage gateways now feature integrated
support for CTERA Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS), extending the
cloud and enabling collaboration and cloud-based file access to user and
project data at LAN speeds.
- Integrates with enterprise security and mobility software:CTERA 5.0 boastsnew
integrations with anti-malware software, enterprise mobility management
tools (EMM) and data loss prevention (DLP) software to provide
comprehensive security and governance across the data services
continuum.
- Functionality across every device, desktop and server:The
Platform now supports VDI and Windows phone users, adding to
pre-existing support for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, iOS and Android
systems.
- A natural, productive user experience:In
addition to offering optional LAN access, CTERA 5.0 offers integrations
with Microsoft Outlook, features integrated document editing, and
provides an online document viewer for nearly 50 new document formats,
including Microsoft Office files, medical images, CAD documents,
high-resolution graphics and more.
- Elegant and intuitive user interface:The
CTERA 5.0 user interface (UI) features all new, beautiful and simple
consumer-grade data services that encourage the internal adoption of
enterprise-sanctioned data services and eliminate the threat of Shadow
IT.
CTERA Sync Appliances Break Down Critical Barriers to Cloud-Based File Services Adoption
With
5.0, CTERA is challenging the conventional definitions of cloud storage
gateways and enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) by merging the
concepts into a single distributed system architecture that provides
high-performance, uninterrupted data access either direct to the cloud
or via a CTERA remote office gateway appliance. CTERA's sync-enabled
gateways allow organizations to pin user and project data to remote
office storage appliances to enable fast local access and collaboration
and persistent data access even in the face of poor Internet
connectivity.
According
to IT analyst firm, Gartner: "An on-premises implementation of EFSS not
only can help an organization control data sharing and collaboration,
but also may inhibit users from easily sharing information assets with
individuals outside the firewall and across multiple regions," said Gene
Ruth and Alan Dayley, Research Directors at Gartner1.
Global Organizations are Embracing CTERA's Platform-Approach to Enterprise Data Services
Céline,
a fashion brand of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA: "As one of the
world's leading luxury brands, Céline has many locations overseas. Our
users request a performance and mobile experience wherever they are. We
selected CTERA's Enterprise File Sync and Share solution for our
employees because the design and thinking that went into 5.0 make the
Céline work experience as seamless and effortless as we expect in our
daily usages." - Dominique Guiffard, CIO
Live
Nation Entertainment, the world's leading live entertainment company:
"CTERA has enabled our IT team to transform its backup operation and
become an internal service provider capable of delivering on-demand,
cloud-based data protection services throughout the organization. CTERA
5.0 supports our vision of centrally managed, comprehensive and
simple-to-use remote data services."- Matt McQuoid, Senior Director of
IT Operations
Unisys, a global information technology company: "The breadth of data
services and the enterprise security and data management integrations
make CTERA's platform an ideal solution for an enterprise systems
integrator like Unisys. Unisys Italia has partnered with CTERA on
projects that in aggregate service the needs of hundreds of thousands of
employees in some of the world's most heavily regulated industries. We
welcome the release of 5.0 as a game changer that addresses the totality
of requirements in our enterprise customer community." - Paolo
Venturini, Unisys Sales Manager
A Vision of Unified Data Services Realized
"After
deploying our solution in more than 110 countries around the world and
engaging with tens of thousands of businesses now powered by CTERA's
Platform, we've gained an intimate appreciation for the different types
of SLAs that are expected of today's agile IT-as-a-Service
organization," said Aron Brand, CTO of CTERA Networks. "To help
organizations realize the complete benefit of cloud-enabled file and
data protection services, we believe the enterprise will settle for
nothing less than a solution that addresses the complete continuum of
data access, governance and cloud choice."