Yale University recently stood up FileLocker[1] to replace some
home-rolled PHP which supported ad-hoc file transfers. It was a bit
of work to put Filelocker on RHEL6 (CherryPy, etc). Integrates out of
the box with CAS[2] for authentication. Also has support for
directory services (we point at AD) to populate name, email, etc.
Easily supports transport encryption, natively encrypts at-rest
(per-file keys in mysqld). Allows for 1.) people in the org to send
data about to one another, 2.) allows users in the org to share with
those not in the org ([email protected]), and 3.) also allows users in
the org to use the tool to 'ask' external users for files
([email protected] gets a tokenized url to click-to-upload files to
share with user who submitted the request). Auto-rolls off expired
users, files based on your business requirements. Also supports
'secure messaging' (allows asynchronous communication of secrets like
email does but without the secrets on the wire and on disk in the
clear).
We routinely see a several dozen concurrent users during peak usage.
We have around 9000 active users ('have used tool in last rolling 90
days') with around 4500 active files in the vault ('have been uploaded
into tool in last 10 days') eating up a few hundred GB of NetApp disk.
We wrote up what we did for others to look at.[3]
Hope this helps. Cheers.
-nick
[1]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/filelocker2/
[2]: http://www.jasig.org/cas
[3]: http://isa.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/FLK/Filelocker+Architecture
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Damion Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Any one have any recommendations for In-House Web Based file sharing tools?
> We have several affiliate schools that need to share documents and we need to
> do it in a way that is secure for our users. It'll be nice to have a
> Full-Blown Document Management solution, but pricing for the known tools in
> this area are cost prohibitive.
>
> We need to do it in-house and cheap (i.e. Cloud based is not an option).
>
> The features we need:
>
> - Ad-Hoc sharing of documents to internal users
> - LDAP Authentication
> - Logging of document access
> - Web Based access
>
> We have already looked at:
>
> - Xythos (from previous experience it so-so and very expensive)
> - Alfresco (paid version is expensive $21k/processor/yr, community version
> doesn't have a viable administrative interface)
> - Sharepoint (no AD yet, so didn't look at it closely)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Damion
>
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