Feature
Function
Benefit
Admin Features
REST API Orchestration Deploy and manage MCSP
components from within your own code.
Facilitates unified admin interfaces and integration with existing admin toolkits.
Multi-cloud Vendor Support
Maginatics is cloud agnostic to ensure the broadest support for storage and compute providers.
Cost control – the ability to use a wide range of vendors ensures you can easily benefit from price competition. Compatibility – deploy MCSP within the environment most suited to your business.
Email Notifications System updates and alerts can be sent directly to key personnel.
Eliminate the need for constant dashboard monitoring and reduce the need for dashboard access.
Reverse Proxy Route clients outside your network securely.
Reduce the need to open holes in your corporate firewall whilst still ensuring access to business critical data by your users.
Central Management Server Single pane of glass providing real-time VM, Share and user statistics. Control or modify any functional component centrally.
Simplified management path.
Enterprise-Grade Storage Features
Backups Backup the central management server and all services on a set schedule.
Backups can be used to recover your system in the event of an issue. Backups are stored in the cloud for security and ease of access by newly deployed VMs.
Snapshots User accessible access to a view of the namespace at multiple points-in-time.
Delivers a self-service file recovery mechanism, removing the need for admin intervention.
Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Hot Standby
• One-click DR
• VM Healing
Restore failed VMs (either through healing, fresh deployment or by switching to standby) and clients re-establish connectivity.
Ensure the availability of your metadata at all times and reduce the impact on users through fast, transparent, failover to standby systems.
High Availability When deploying Multi-VM instances within EC2-VPC or with VMware HA, you can deploy redundant VMs and a database cluster.
Replica servers reduce your risk vector in the event of any component failure within a deployment.
Site Caching LAN-speed branch level read/write cache delivering high throughput.
Enhances local access speeds for co-located workers. Reduces WAN usage.
File-system Features
POSIX and Windows compatibility Full support for POSIX or Windows file system semantics.
Dedicated POSIX mode for applications that expect POSIX compliant file system behavior. The default file-system offers POSIX translation and full Windows file system semantics.
Inline Deduplication Reduce data storage requirements by only storing unique data.
Management more VMs and services to support growth in users and storage needs.
as your needs expand. Operate only the infrastructure you need.
Scale-Out Namespaces Administrators can stitch together multiple MagFS namespaces into a single logical namespace by creating a DFS link.
Enables delivery of incredibly large logical namespaces. DFS links appear as a folder in the source namespace, so users have to take no action. Byte-Range Locking File system exposes a full range of file
locks, up to and including byte-range locking, for Windows clients.
Multiple users can read and write from a file safely and in real-time from applications that support byte-range locking.
Quotas Support for storage quotas at the user level.
Control storage utilization for users to control your cost centers.
Multi-Layer Adaptive Caching (Client, Site, Content Delivery Network)
Minimize potential performance concerns for remote users. Agents provide a secure local cache, Site Cache provides a secure shared cache at branch level. CDN (CloudFront) takes this further, delivering a geographically dispersed read cache of objects read by users, speeding access to object data for subsequent from that region.
Optimize WAN traffic to route to the nearest data source whilst the Maginatics Virtual Filer retains control over routing. Ensure high, steady throughput rates regardless of user type and location. Utilize existing IT resources (e.g. endpoints) to provide cache speeds without a single point of failure.
Security Features
End-to-End Security Data is encrypted in-flight and at-rest.
Security keys remain within control of the enterprise and never touch the object store. Data is never sent unencrypted.
SSL Certificate Support Servers can utilize CA-supplied or self-signed security certificates.
Ensures certificate-based
256-bit AES Encryption All data is encrypted at source prior to transmission.
Files are split in to chunks and each chunk is encrypted using a high level of encryption prior to transmission to ensure the safety of your data.
Single Sign-On (SSO) With Reverse Proxy
Single sign-on supported inside or outside of the firewall.
Simplified user operation, removing the need to send corporate
credentials across networks. 3rd Party Authentication Support Authentication profiles allow usage
of your existing Identity Management Provider such as Microsoft Active Directory or other SSO providers (OneLogin, Okta) for rights
management across MagFS shares and interfaces on a per share basis.
Control access to your Maginatics Virtual Filer (MVF) Management UI and set your MVF to operate shares in authenticated modes with your preferred identity provider.
Role-Based Access Control All administrator level actions within the Management Console are tracked on a per-user account basis.
Utilizes your existing IDM to prevent a need to create new accounts and groups. Ensures all activities are logged against the originator for auditing purposes.
Agent Features
Native Mobile Clients Fully featured mobile clients delivering access from Android and iOS for users around the globe.
Integration with the mobile OS for reading, streaming and writing files. Provides secure access for traveling users.
Mobile support for pining files Mobile users can select content to store locally on their device.
Pin content to the device for access whilst disconnected.
Secure Client Caches Local caches available to the MagFS Agent are used to store encrypted data chunks for rapid access.
file system. platform that can support a web browser. Reduces the need for client installation.
Multi-Share Support Users can mount multiple shares as named volumes.
Users interface with MagFS shares as they do with more traditional network shares today.
Data Transfer Auto-Tuning Clients monitor their network environment and workload to optimize transfer rates.
Users experience self-optimizing transfer speeds without having to manually change settings.
List of Clouds Supported
Compute VMware vSphere 4.x or newer Amazon Web Services EC2 Google Compute Engine
Storage – Private Basho Riak CS (1.3 or newer), Ceph (S3 API compatible), Cleversafe, Cloudian (2.4.3 or newer), EMC Atmos, EMC ViPR, OpenStack Swift (Temp URL
authentication required) (Essex or newer), Scality RING Organic (4.0 or newer) Storage – Public Amazon Web Services S3, DreamObjects, EMC Atmos Online, Google Cloud
Services, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace Cloud Files, all other clouds that are API-compatible with EMC Atmos, S3 or OpenStack Swift
List of Native Clients Supported
Windows: Win7, Win8, Win2008 R2, Win2012 Mac: Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) or newer
Linux: Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 6.3, RHEL 5.9 or newer iOS 4.3 or newer
Android: 4.1 or newer
