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Secure File Sharing on IBM Cloud

Key Points

  • Degree, head of technical operations at Inspire Tech, explains that their EasyShare file‑collaboration platform helps organizations balance security and accessibility in the digital workplace.
  • To let internal users share files externally while keeping the intranet isolated, Inspire Tech uses a three‑tier “hitch” model with separate web, application, and database servers in the DMZ and intranet.
  • The company has successfully deployed this on‑premise architecture for many clients and now needed a cloud solution that could maintain the same security posture.
  • IBM Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) matched those requirements, allowing Inspire Tech to replicate the isolated network design and integrate services like IBM Cloud Object Storage for scalability.
  • With IBM’s cloud, Inspire Tech plans to roll out additional EasyShare instances, further expanding secure, cloud‑based file‑sharing for its customers.

Full Transcript

# Secure File Sharing on IBM Cloud **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l77zmYGJ-DM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l77zmYGJ-DM) **Duration:** 00:01:51 ## Summary - Degree, head of technical operations at Inspire Tech, explains that their EasyShare file‑collaboration platform helps organizations balance security and accessibility in the digital workplace. - To let internal users share files externally while keeping the intranet isolated, Inspire Tech uses a three‑tier “hitch” model with separate web, application, and database servers in the DMZ and intranet. - The company has successfully deployed this on‑premise architecture for many clients and now needed a cloud solution that could maintain the same security posture. - IBM Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) matched those requirements, allowing Inspire Tech to replicate the isolated network design and integrate services like IBM Cloud Object Storage for scalability. - With IBM’s cloud, Inspire Tech plans to roll out additional EasyShare instances, further expanding secure, cloud‑based file‑sharing for its customers. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l77zmYGJ-DM&t=0s) **Secure File Sharing via IBM Cloud** - The speaker explains how Inspire Tech implements a three‑tier, DMZ‑isolated architecture for their EasyShare collaboration platform and migrates it to IBM’s Virtual Private Cloud to maintain security while enabling external file sharing. ## Full Transcript
0:00my name is degree and I am the head of 0:02technical operations at inspire tech 0:04inspire Tech works with organizations to 0:06revolutionize the digital workplace 0:08today most organizations are trying to 0:11find a balance between security and 0:13accessibility inspire text file 0:16collaboration platform easyshare enables 0:20organizations to address such key issues 0:23one of the challenges that organizations 0:25face is how to allow internal users to 0:29share files with external parties while 0:32isolating the intranet from the Internet 0:35to address this we deploy auditioning 0:38what we refer to as hitch model in hitch 0:41model we deploy three-tier architecture 0:43in the intranet consisting of the web 0:47application database servers and another 0:50set in the DMZ with this only specific 0:54files meant for external parties are 0:57exposed to the Internet are the files 1:00remains isolated within intranet we have 1:03successfully deployed this solution to 1:06many organizations in the on-premise 1:08model with increasing demand for cloud 1:11we were looking at for a cloud platform 1:13that supports the same secure 1:15architecture IBM's virtual private cloud 1:18was the perfect match to our 1:20requirements in Sparta is glad to be 1:23able to deploy easy share on IBM's V PC 1:26using the same network isolated 1:29architecture which aligns with our focus 1:31on security through IBM cloud we can now 1:33easily leverage on other technologies 1:35such as IBM cloud object storage to 1:38scale our solution we look forward to 1:40deploy more instances of EDA share in 1:42the cloud for our customers 1:49you