Distributed Data Management

CTERA Portal provides a centralized control plane for managing thousands of distributed CTERA Edge Filers, consolidating data silos into a unified global namespace accessible from anywhere. By automating key tasks such as configuration management, software updates, reporting, and monitoring, the Portal helps IT teams reduce the overhead associated with managing a distributed infrastructure. The Portal features extensive logging and alerting capabilities, enabling proactive issue management and ensuring seamless data access.

All components of the CTERA Platform can be deployed using cloud-native deployment tools, ensuring both speed and consistency when managing large-scale environments. These tools streamline the deployment process, enabling efficient, automated provisioning and configuration, while maintaining the reliability and scalability required for complex infrastructures.

Operational Resilience & Business Continuity

The CTERA Platform offers continuous data protection to Azure Blob Storage with metadata-first disaster recovery, including priority retrieval for frequently accessed data. This enables organizations to seamlessly failover clients to CTERA Edge Filer instances running at neighboring sites, a core data center, or in the cloud, ensuring uninterrupted operations and that organizations maintain access to critical data

Hybrid Workforce, User & Team Productivity

With a scalable Edge-to-Core architecture, CTERA accelerates user and team productivity by delivering highly available file presentation across any number of sites, facilitating real-time collaboration across geo-dispersed locations, connecting distributed teams with a single namespace and enabling them to work collaboratively on shared datasets in real time

Additionally, users of the CTERA Platform can leverage the CTERA Drive Connect endpoint client software to access data remotely, eliminating the need for a VPN and significantly enhancing flexibility and productivity

Cyber Resilience

CTERA incorporates both passive and active protection measures to safeguard data and defend against evolving cybersecurity threats, including: immutable volumes (WORM: Write-Once, Read-Many) to ensure data integrity by preventing modifications or deletions, real-time machine learning algorithms to instantly identify ransomware and block suspicious file activities, robust encryption both at rest and in transit, utilizing FIPS 140-2 certified cryptography. The CTERA Platform offers extensive auditing, incident management dashboards, and real-time alerting for proactive monitoring and rapid response.

CTERA is the only Global File System approved by the Department of Information Systems Agency (DoDIN APL).

Data Migration

CTERA’s fully integrated data migration engine, built into the CTERA Edge Filer, simplifies the process of migrating petabytes of data by automatically discovering and importing file shares & metadata and access control entries from legacy NAS systems. This seamless integration eliminates the need for complex third-party tools, additional costs, or manual intervention.