Ctera Zero-Minute Cloud Disaster Recovery

Ctera Networks, a New York-based developer of physical and virtual cloud storage gateways, in February added disaster recovery capabilities to those gateways to help distributed enterprises more quickly manage local storage outages. Those gateways, which include built-in cloud failover, hybrid backup, and file sync and share acceleration, can now be set for continuous cloud synchronization of file system structures and permissions. If needed, users can be redirected to secure direct-to-cloud access of data without redundant storage devices. The new capability came as part of a new release of Ctera's cloud file system, which extends Windows ACLs (Access Control Lists) from the office to the cloud across any choice of servers, mobile clients, and physical or virtual desktops.