The document discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by the exponential growth of unstructured data, highlighting the need for effective storage solutions that comply with regulatory requirements like GDPR. It introduces Leonovus and Storage Made Easy’s enterprise software-defined storage solutions, which enhance data management and collaboration while ensuring security and compliance. Key features include significant cost savings, end-to-end data protection, and policy-based controls for IT administrators.

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OVERVIEW
The exponential growth of unstructured data has created huge challenges for enterprises and
service providers. Storage cost and compliance are taking a larger-than-planned for and ever-
growing chunk out of budgets as companies manage terabytes and even zetabytes of data under
increasing regulatory oversight. How can organizations keep data costs contained while still
meeting Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) objectives such the new 2018 European GDPR
regulations?
Yet there are new data opportunities too! Cloud storage technologies, popularized by Amazon,
provide highly reliable and scalable storage systems. And for end users the consumerization of
mobile, cloud apps and file sharing has led to new ways of working and collaborating.
To address these challenges and opportunities, organizations want to take advantage of the
economics available with the cloud but are appropriately concerned about security and compliance.
They are already dealing with “shadow IT” - business users using unsanctioned file storage and
sharing services such as Dropbox. These public cloud services just aren’t equipped to meet
demanding corporate GRC requirements.
TECHNOLOGY
Together, the Storage Made Easy File Fabric™ and Leonovus 3.0 enterprise software-defined storage
can be used by organizations to realize the benefits of converged storage with enhanced ease of
use, collaboration and data governance. It’s peace of mind across the entire storage fabric.
Leonovus 3.0 with the Storage Made Easy File Fabric provides enterprise integration for tenant and
user provisioning, policy-based controls, and fine-grained auditing that traverses all enterprises
storage resources. The File Fabric™ encourages user adoption of converged storage with
productivity tools including workgroup collaboration and file “sync & sharing” through a suite of
desktop, mobile and web applications. The combined solution secures on-premises and cloud
storage infrastructure up through the application stack which results in a fully compliant storage
solution.
SOLUTION BRIEF
LEONOVUS USER COLLABORATION INTERFACE (LUCI)
WITH STORAGE MADE EASY
Collaboration and ease of use for hybrid/multi-cloud storage with deep infrastructure security
and compliance

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FEATURES AND CAPABILITIES
• Dramatic Cost Savings with Scalability & Resilience
Leonovus software defined storage (SDS) was created to manage vast stores of unstructured data
economically and securely. Idle storage (often over 50% for an enterprise) can be automatically
discovered and utilized – this includes on premise file systems as well as cloud storage such as
OneDrive and Google Drive. Alongside deduplication and erasure coding organizations often see
storage savings of over 50%.
• Data Protection and Compliance End to End
Data is secure at rest and in-flight. Leonovus’ patented algorithms virtualize, transform, slice and
encrypt data across a network of on-premises, hybrid or multi-cloud storage nodes. Comprehensive
security monitoring and controls ensure end to end data protection from on-premises out to hybrid
and/or multi-cloud storage architectures. Full tracking, real-time logging and compliance reporting
for the entire data lifecycle is provided enabling full chain-of-evidence management critical for
meeting GRC and GDPR regulations. Unique to Leonovus is the continuous back-up capability for
cloud storage like OneDrive providing additional protection against Ransomware.
• Policy-Based Control for IT
IT can now manage disparate storage resources as a single system of self-healing nodes. From a
single interface, they can enforce corporate data security policies for access, sharing and encryption,
and see lower reduced administration costs and risks as a result. Integration with enterprise identify
providers, auto provisioning for users and delegated permissions all make life simpler.
• Enterprise Class Collaboration
With organizations increasing outsourcing, partnering and globalization there’s an imperative to
more easily share and collaborate across groups, geographies and devices. End users can
collaborate through shared folders, annotation tools and approval workflows via mobile and desktop
apps. IT can feel safe managing their own “enterprise sync and share” drop box with AES 256
encryption. Collaboration is efficiently enabled and data protected, for users inside and outside the
organization.

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ABOUT
LEONOVUS
Leonovus is a cloud solutions software provider that offers an enhanced,
software-defined object storage solution and governance, risk management
and compliance (GRC) solution for the modern enterprise.
Designed with the IT manager in mind, Leonovus' patented algorithms
virtualize, transform, slice and disperse data across a network of on-
premises, hybrid or multi-cloud storage nodes – allowing for the most secure
yet internally accessible form of object-based data storage.
The advanced geo-distributed architecture minimizes latency, optimizes geo-
availability, reduces remote backup costs and meets data sovereignty
requirements. With its software and hardware agnostic design, Leonovus
provides Petabyte scalability and allows the enterprise to utilize its existing
idle storage resources, extend the useable lifespan of depreciated resources
and improve the enterprise's overall ROI.
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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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