Solution Sheets: CTERA Multi-Cloud Data Management Solution Brief
The ultimate platform for flexibility, cost-efficiency, business continuity, compliance, and security.
Multi-Cloud
Connect, Control and Conquer
Embrace a future of limitless possibilities with CTERA’s multi-cloud flexibility and security. Eliminate vendor lock-in and connect with any cloud—public, private, or hybrid.
Leverage the Most Cost-Effective Services
Reduce operational costs while maintaining high performance and service quality. That way, you can allocate resources more efficiently.
Ensure Business Continuity
Guarantee uninterrupted operations by distributing your workloads across multiple cloud environments. This minimizes the risk of downtime and data loss, providing robust disaster recovery options.
Enhance Compliance and Security
A multi-cloud strategy lets you implement more sophisticated security measures and adhere to various compliance standards.
Streamline Your Cloud Access with CTERA Direct
CTERA Direct’s ultra-fast, edge-to-cloud patented file transfer protocol is designed to power distributed data-rich environments, such as creative media and healthcare offices, and to accelerate responsiveness for work-from-home users using CTERA desktop and VDI agents.
Data Ingestion
CTERA Direct boosts file transfer speeds by an order of magnitude, making it ideal for hybrid cloud data rich workloads such as media companies that routinely need to ingest and distribute massive video files and creative assets. Paired with CTERA’s proprietary source-based data deduplication and compression, CTERA Direct enables unparalleled file ingestion speeds.
Latency Mitigation
Achieve high file transfer throughput regardless of network latency or the distance between your edge device and the cloud storage site. CTERA Direct transfers data chunks in parallel via up to 100 concurrent connections per client to overcome the effects of network latency. Users can quickly send and access large files over long distances (e.g., New York to Tokyo) for a seamless global collaboration.
Geographically Dispersed Filesystem
CTERA Direct lets you create a geographically distributed global file system in which data originating in a specific region is stored in that same region. Data is accessible from anywhere, and the entire system is managed through a single, centralized pane of glass.
Zero-Trust Architecture
CTERA Direct offers unparalleled security, combining AES-256 encryption with CTERA’s zero-trust architecture. Rather than granting privileged object storage credentials to edge devices – considered to be inherently untrusted – each direct request is approved and digitally signed by a centralized security authority. Edge devices never possess credentials for the object storage, and they cannot corrupt your critical data even if they are compromised.
Storage Routing
Ensure your data takes the most efficient path in a multi-cloud environment, balancing performance, redundancy, and cost. Perfect for disaster recovery and real-time data management.
On-Premises & Cloud Routing
Routing provides policy controls to designate dedicated storage buckets to folders in the global file system. Provides flexibility to protect sensitive data on-premises.
Global Presentation of Storage Tiers
Delivers unified, high-performance, CIFS/NFS presentation across any number of storage buckets and tiers. Prioritize datasets based on tier for optimal cost savings.
Multi-Cloud File Access
CTERA Edge Filer ensures consistent data across multiple locations by allowing selective data synchronization between sites, ensuring that the right data is available where needed.
CTERA Zones
Segment your cloud environment into distinct zones for optimal data management and security. Control where and how data is stored based on regional, compliance, or organizational needs, ensuring that your most critical data is always in the right place. Perfect for meeting industry-specific regulatory requirements while enhancing overall cloud security and efficiency.
Flexible Zones Definition
IT administrators can define Zones by relevant geographic or department criteria and tag folders and users to assign dynamic access in each Zone. Users are prevented from accessing any folder in the global namespace that does not belong to their defined Zone. Folders can be shared between multiple zones.
Internal Access Control
Accounting department users do not need access to product design specs. Marketing teams do not need access to HR reports. By defining zones based on the content required by each department and associating a department edge filer to each zone, you can ensure that users only have access to relevant data while restricting access to sensitive data across the organization.
GDPR Compliance
Creating separate zones for each country enables global enterprises to comply with GDPR and other data residency requirements. For example, personal data related to customers that resides on an Edge Filer in Germany can be “hidden” from users working in offices outside the country.
Smart Syncing
Each edge filer syncs only files in the global namespace that belong to its defined Zone, resulting in a performance boost for large, multi-site enterprises managing millions of files. By exposing the filer to a subset of the global namespace, traffic loads related to file activities (modifications, deletions, etc.) are reduced dramatically.
Efficient IT Management
By creating multiple zones for an edge filer, IT admins can separate its content into business-driven units for more efficient data management. Users have fast access to relevant data without having to sift through unwanted content, while admins gain better visibility into the folders and files belonging to each department.
Multi-tenant
Share infrastructure across multiple clients or departments while maintaining strict data isolation and security. Scale effortlessly as your organization grows, keeping costs in check.
- Separate storage bucket per tenancy
Deliver complete data confidentiality with isolated storage buckets for each customer. - Admin roles with segregation of duties
Provide several levels of privileges for IT admins, service managers, and support staff. - Private encryption keys per tenancy
Allow customers to use their own encryption keys, securing their data from prying eyes. - Virtually limitless number of tenancies
Deploy containerized file services to numerous customers with full separation of data stores. - Service plan creation per tenancy
Each reseller or department can adjust service plans to fit their users’ requirements.
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FAQ
What is multi-cloud?
Multi-cloud refers to the strategic deployment of multiple cloud services from different providers—such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud—within a single architecture. This approach, one we undertake for our customers, enables CTERA to distribute workloads and data across various cloud platforms, optimizing performance, increasing resilience, and avoiding vendor lock-in. Multi-cloud strategies often involve a combination of public, private, and hybrid clouds, allowing organizations to tailor infrastructure and services based on security, latency, and compliance requirements.
Can multi-cloud improve system performance?
Yes, our platform enhances performance by optimizing data placement and geo-replication. We give you the power to store data closer to your users via our Edge Filers, reducing latency and improving data access times. By leveraging intelligent caching at the edge, frequently accessed data can be served locally, significantly boosting performance while minimizing cloud access costs. This architecture also provides automatic load balancing, distributing data across multiple cloud platforms for redundancy and performance optimization.
How do I implement a multi-cloud strategy with CTERA?
Getting started begins with deploying CTERA’s Edge Filers and our global file system. Our hybrid cloud architecture enables seamless integration with AWS, Azure, and private clouds to name a few, so that businesses like yours can distribute workloads intelligently. Our centralized management console simplifies workload distribution, security management, and compliance monitoring, making it easier for IT teams to manage multi-cloud environments effectively.
How does CTERA help with compliance?
We embed end-to-end encryption, audit logging, and granular access controls into its multi-cloud file system. Our hybrid cloud data platform supports industry-specific regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI-DSS by securing data both in transit and at rest with AES-256 encryption. It also allows administrators to enforce role-based access control (RBAC), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and maintain a detailed audit trail of all file access and data movements. With CTERA, you can enforce compliance distributed edge locations and multiple cloud environments, ensuring data integrity and security no matter where your workforce is.
Learn more about CTERA’s approach to compliance or talk to our team.
Embrace the Power and Flexibility of Multi-Cloud
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