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Use Case - Lafayette collègeAccess and share sensitive data from any device

« We wanted to add a modern interface to our private file shares that

supported web browsers and mobile devices.

Pydio met our goal and was easy to modify to fit our

infrastructure »

Founded in 1826, it is located in Easton, Pa., 70 miles from New York City and 60 miles from Philadelphia.

Firmly established among the nat ion ’s most academica l l y competitive and selective liberal arts colleges, Lafayette offers the rare combination of the liberal arts and engineering to an exclusively undergraduate student body of 2,400.

John Fulton - Director, Network and Systems

Tim Yale - Web Applications Specialist

Access and share sensitive data from any device

No private data on public clouds Not all data is appropriate for storage in a public cloud because of privacy and legal concerns. Lafayette College keeps its sensitive data, as per its Data Stewardship Policy, out of the public cloud. IT delivers instead storage services in its private data centers.

Seeking for web and mobile file sharing Internal file shares have been keeping Lafayette College's internal data safe for years. Based on Samba, storage services can be accessed from traditional fat clients. But the college needed to provide students, faculty and staff with a more modern web interface to that data as well as a way to access that data through mobile devices. Pydio was chosen to provide web browser, smartphones and tablet interfaces to Lafayette College internal data in a way that keeps pace with modern public cloud interfaces while keeping the data internal.

Pydio: simplicity and migration free Thanks to Pydio existing file shares have been connected, and made accessible from web and mobile thin clients. Pydio's Samba driver allowed all of Lafayette College permissions information associated with Samba shares to be preserved so that piece of infrastructure does not need to be migrated. Instead, Pydio was added on top of that infrastructure for an easy path to a modern private cloud.

Lafayette branding and specifics Lafayette College developers were rapidly able to build connectivity plug-ins and to optimize the file sharing system performance. Computer and mobile workspaces are part of the College experience, and Pydio was rebranded to reflect Lafayette College brand and visual identify.

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Lafayette data: 4000 users scale-up fast 3000 students and 1000 faculty and staff add data every day. Today, 13 Terabytes are accessed and shared through Pydio.

The underlying infrastructure includes: - Cisco Networks, - Dell and IBM servers, - Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Virtualization, - Ext4 Linux file system

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