M-Stream™ File Transfer Acceleration is a unique feature from the Enterprise File Fabric that speeds up the uploading, downloading and copying of very big files.

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LARGE FILE TRANSFER ACCELERATION
Transferring large files can be labor intensive and slow. When files are too big to email, unreliable
networks, limited disk space, and heterogeneous systems can thwart end users who want to move
multi-gigabyte files from one system to another as easily as they move office documents.
M-Stream™ File Transfer Acceleration speeds up the uploading, downloading and copying of very big
files. Large files are split into pieces, sent in parallel over multiple streams, and reassembled back into
a contiguous file or object at the target. In this way M-Stream maximizes network bandwidth,
minimizes network latency, and increases resiliency, particularly for wide area networks.
M-Stream is activated when moving and copying large files, folders and objects. It's supported both in
File Fabric desktop tools (uploading and downloading) and in the File Fabric appliance itself (copying
data server-to-server).
SOLUTION BRIEF
M-STREAM™ LARGE FILE TRANSFER ACCELERATION

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FEATURES
• Multiple Providers. M-Stream supports CIFS/SMB, NFS, OpenStack Swift and S3-Compatible
storage including Ceph, IBM COS and Google Cloud Storage.
• Cross Cloud. M-Stream is used for file transfers between different data stores including
between file systems and object stores, across storage tiers, between data centers, and across
private and public clouds.
• No Agents. No installation is required for storage providers. Native CIFS, NFS and object
storage APIs are used, including, where supported, MPU and DLO.
• Desktop Tools. Server-to-server transfers can be managed from Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and
Android applications and the web. Desktop applications supporting M-Stream uploads and
downloads are available for Windows and Mac. A Linux application is in development.
• Access Control & Limits. Fine grained access controls can be set by administrators or
delegates. Restrictions can also be set for bandwidth and storage used.
• Audit Log. Full tamperproof traceability of downloads - who, what, when and where. Set up
real-time “audit watch” alerts to monitor downloads that match file and folder patterns.
USE CASES
Large Files on Demand
Users want to move large files to and from their workstations quickly and reliably.
It might be for local consumption or editing. They don’t want to wait.
Storage Tiering
More information can be moved to lower cost, (colder) storage with the assurity it can
be brought quickly to high performance storage when needed for processing.
Backup and Archive
End users need to be able to recover large files backed up or archived on storage
clouds both private and public including AWS, IBM, Google and Azure storage clouds.
Data Migration
With server-to-server transfer powered by M-Stream, end users a drag and drop files
and objects between different file systems, object stores and clouds.

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SERVER TO DESKTOP
SERVER TO SERVER
The democratization of technology can be
both liberating and frustrating. It’s
liberating when end users can use the
cloud as limitless secondary storage, or
can recover their own files from an off-site
backup or archive. But moving around
very large files can be slow, difficult and
altogether frustrating.
The Enterprise File Fabric desktop tools for
Windows and Mac use M-Stream to
support downloading and uploading large
files up to ten times more quickly. The
Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder can
be used to fetch or upload large files on
demand. A desktop cloud explorer is also
available.
Whether migrating files between different
systems, or across tiers for processing, ad-
hoc transfers of large volumes of data, can
be very difficult. A user would first download
a file onto their local desktop (if there’s
enough room). Only when that’s successful
can an upload to the target server begin, and
fingers crossed an unreliable network doesn’t
derail the upload too. IT may help, but it
might take days for a request to be fulfilled.
The Enterprise File Fabric allows end users to
move files and folders between data stores
as easily as dragging and dropping through
the File Explorer. The operation itself is
performed asynchronously by the Enterprise
File Fabric Server. This offloads the work
from the desktop (or mobile device) and
takes advantage of data center network
bandwidth.
With M-Stream™ these operations happen up
to ten times faster.

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ABOUT
STORAGE MADE EASY®
The Storage Made Easy Enterprise File Fabric™ enables IT to regain control of
"cloud data sprawl" to unify on-premises and on-cloud files into a single easily
managed converged infrastructure with policy-based controls for governance,
audit and security.
The File Fabric solution provides a “blanket” enterprises wrap around all their
data: on premises, within public and private clouds, as well as on third-party
software vendor clouds (SharePoint Online and Salesforce for example).
Customers use the SME File Fabric product to unify corporate data to enable
workgroup collaboration with universal controls for security, encryption, audit,
and data access. Companies will have access to a greater understanding of
where and how sensitive data is stored, transferred, and accessible
with particular focus on how companies are able to police and audit data to
ensure enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in
addition to other regional data legislation.
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