Home Directories
Some of an enterprise's most important data is housed within individual employee home directories containing vital documents, passwords, and personal content associated to each user's business environment. Yet these home directories are often stored via only a single copy on unreliable workstation hard drives.
Storing all home directories in a centralized, networked file storage system increases the reliability and protection of the data, but comes at significant capital and operational management cost. This solution may actually increase risk since all users' data is stored on one device, and it forces the imposition of various restrictions and limits on end users.
Attempting to use today's existing Web 2.0 cloud storage solutions is an uphill climb, as these solutions are not file systems and use proprietary APIs requiring the development of specialized client software to store and access data. Additionally, Web 2.0 cloud storage lacks appropriate data protection and security for most business IT uses.
Enter Zetta which offers:
- Online, web-access to data
- Limitless scale
- Multi-site geo-diverse storage—offsite from you, with replication to other sites
- Guaranteed data integrity, including real snapshots to persist historical state
- Default at-rest encryption
- A native file system, enabling access using the same file system permissions in use today
- A POSIX-based strong consistency model
- Standard storage access protocols, enabling easy integration
Zetta delivers an ideal solution for storage of enterprise Home Directories.
