What is CTERA?
CTERA provides a comprehensive hybrid cloud data platform designed for enterprise file services, ensuring data is instantly accessible, always protected, regulatory compliant, and cyber-resilient. It facilitates seamless data management across edge locations, core infrastructure, and multiple cloud environments. The platform offers a global file system that scales infinitely, leveraging object storage economics while providing unified SMB, NFS, and S3 protocol access. Users benefit from edge acceleration for fast local access and built-in tools for migrating data from legacy NAS systems.
Security and intelligence are central to the CTERA platform. It incorporates zero-trust principles and features advanced AI-based ransomware protection with machine learning algorithms for zero-day threat prevention and mitigation. CTERA Data Intelligence transforms unstructured file data into actionable knowledge using multi-LLM AI services. Furthermore, the platform ensures compliance with regulations like GDPR through immutable WORM storage and robust data sovereignty controls, making it suitable for industries with stringent security requirements.
Features
- Global File System: Infinitely scalable storage accessible from anywhere with object storage economics.
- AI-Based Ransomware Protection: Zero-day prevention and mitigation using machine learning algorithms.
- CTERA Data Intelligence: Transforms files into knowledge using multi-LLM AI data services.
- Multi-Cloud Deployment: Flexible deployment options from private to concurrent multi-cloud environments.
- Zero-Trust Architecture: Ensures cyber-resiliency with active defense and instant recovery.
- Edge Caching: Provides fast local access to the global file system for remote locations.
- Unified File & Object Access: Supports SMB, NFS, and S3 protocols simultaneously.
- WORM Compliance: Offers immutable long-term data retention and archival meeting regulatory standards.
- NAS Migration Tools: Built-in discovery and automatic data migration from legacy systems.
Use Cases
- Modernizing NAS infrastructure across enterprises.
- Facilitating multi-site file collaboration and sharing securely.
- Ensuring data compliance and archival according to regulations (e.g., GDPR).
- Protecting file data against ransomware and cyber threats using AI.
- Enabling secure remote workforce access to enterprise files.
- Providing file services layer over object storage infrastructure.
- Managing file data for DevOps orchestration workflows.
- Implementing military-grade private cloud file services.
- Leveraging cloud bursting capabilities for file-based workloads.
- Analyzing and extracting insights from unstructured file data using AI.
