Access & Retrieval

Share Proprietary Content Securely

Thru centralizes access to content archives while optimizing storage and making it easy to retrieve files from anywhere and at anytime. Your business can balance information control with accessibility by:

• Granting role-based access to a content repository
• Implementing single sign-on (SSO) for identity and access management
• Searching archives using multiple criteria and meta data
• Sending single instances of files to multiple recipients
• Receiving data securely from external sources

BUSINESS Need

The growth of digital files is forcing you to increase your storage capacity at a rapid pace. Painfully, you’re discovering that your storage infrastructure has succumbed to waste, with sensitive information and intellectual property mixed in with personal documents or duplicate data. Unauthorized access and release of information is both alarming and disarming. The cost of data protection and storage management is keeping you up at night.

Meanwhile, files are managed in scattered storage silos and access rights are inconsistent. Often, manual browsing beats out sophisticated search tools and time is exhausted trying to access and retrieve information from archives—many completely unsearchable.

To add to these issues, government regulation is requiring discovery of physical and electronic information for legal defense. Ineffective access control and retrieval increases risk of non-compliance and expensive fines.

IT Challenge

Typical email and file storage systems do not recognize file-level access requirements or duplicate data. Your disaster recovery plan may be under development or another revision. How file access and retrieval will be affected remains unclear. You want to get rid of waste, archive files more efficiently and ensure availability of business-critical information.

Content management systems can make classifying and searching information easier. But in reality information is flowing from desktop to desktop and is disorganized—even with a robust content management system in place. How do you get control of this traffic and manage associated storage proactively? Worse yet, departments have amassed collections of content management systems and file storage servers based on their different preferences. The resulting complexity increases IT overhead and user support.

Solution

Explore Thru Server and the Thru Secure Communication Network™ (SCN) brand of managed services to see how you can improve user productivity and optimize storage resources.