Cloud Storage offers coprporations many advantages that include:
- Protection of data in multiple geographic regions or by multiple Cloud Providers
- Elasticity of data offering users the ability to grow or shrink their cloud data at a moment’s notice
- Cloud access any time regardless of location
- Paying only for the storage you consume each month
- No initial acquisition costs to leverage cloud storage (no CAPEX)

With BridgeSTOR, YES! Although Cloud Providers offer security in the form of data encryption when data resides in the Cloud, it is paramount that your data is encrypted when sent over the wire and when residing in the Cloud. For this reason, BridgeSTOR has developed ProtectedCloudTM Security.

Cloud Storage is accessed via HTML via the S3 API. Currently most Cloud Storage is accessed through a web browser or a custom application. The Coronado Multi-Protocol Bridge expands this capability by converting existing storage protocols (SMB, NFS) to S3 allowing easy access from workstations or servers.

Cloud Storage with all of it's features will come at a price. Sending data over the Internet adds Latency which slows down file uploads and downloads. S3 Acceleration is a process where HTML data is cached locally to hard drives and then uploaded in the background to Cloud Storage.

A virtual network appliance that resides in the Cloud or VMware cluster that supplies global services such as metadata controller, global ACL support, global single file instance, global file locking, file versioning and more. The data stored in a Coronado Global View Manager is actually cached data as all BridgeSTOR data is stored in the Cloud Storage for disaster recovery.

Cloud Storage Providers such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc. rely on the ability to safeguard against data loss by spreading data across multiple data stores and in some cases, multiple geographic regions. BridgeSTOR saves the metadata in the cloud while offering users the ability to leverage a local cache that maintains a local copy of hot and critical data based on a user-defined policy.

The Coronado Multi-Protocol Cloud Bridge provides a secure NAS (network attached storage) environment and S3 REST application environment that integrates the data center with the Cloud Storage, allowing Public Cloud Storage or Private Cloud to function as standard NAS. Coronado Multi-Protocol Cloud Bridge is delivered as either a physical appliance or Virtual Machine that operates with your existing Virtual Machine Cluster, making it an ideal fit for a variety of environments.

Coronado Multi-Point Cloud Bridge may be used by corporations that want to simplify their Cloud experience and the ability to share files worldwide using our optional Coronado Global View Manager.

BridgeSTOR’s Global Namespace allows enterprise customers to access and share files across the globe. The Global Namespace and Global Cloud Deduplication are made possible by BridgeSTOR’s Coronado Global View Manager. Companies with multiple locations can access the same file view when deploying multiple Coronado Multi-Protocol Cloud Bridges.

Developed by BridgeSTOR, CSFS is at the heart of all BridgeSTOR products. CSFS has taken over four years to create and allows customers to seamlessly access Cloud Storage via native NFS or Windows SMB (CIFS) connectivity. The technology found within CSFS also provides ProtectedCloudTM Security, Global Namespace capabilities, Global Cloud Deduplication, block-level deduplication, compression, thin provisioning, Windows Active Directory integration and more.

The Coronado Access Point can be purchased through the traditional ‘License fee and maintenance style’ model or through a web based OPEX model where the software licensed monthly.

BridgeSTOR’s CSFS offers customers ProtectedCloudTM Security, which utilizes XTS-AES 256 bit Military Grade Encryption for both data “in-flight” and while sitting at the Cloud Storage Provider. CSFS utilizes two encryption keys. The first key is created by you when you sign up for the BridgeSTOR service. This key will be maintained locally. BridgeSTOR will only use this key for encryption and will not copy or save the key to any other location. BridgeSTOR will create the second key called an “XTS Encryption Key”. This key is never stored and is calculated on demand when encryption is turned on. The formula for the “XTS Encryption Key” is BridgeSTOR proprietary and will never be released. XTS Encryption is used so that identical blocks (Ex: two zeroed blocks) will look different. In this way, a hacker will never be able to reverse engineer the data to determine your key. XTS-AES Encryption is vital for customers who must maintain security of their data at all times.

Moving sizeable files or multiple files over a wide area network (WAN) can degrade the performance of your applications, most Public Cloud vendors also charge for the download of files so Coronado has been with an optional local tier of storage. The Coronado Multi-Protocol Bridge maintains all active files in its local disk tier to provide optimal performance and allow more types of applications to use Cloud Storage. The Coronado Multi-Protocol Bridge will write data securely to the Cloud in a background process so local disk tier version is never the permanent copy. After a user-defined period of time, files that are no longer being accessed from the disk tier will be removed.