Developer: MSP360
Client Operating System: MacOS 11.6
Version Tested: 1.4.0.274
Review
Cloudberry Explorer Pro is simple to install and configure on a Mac. The contents of the XenData S3 buckets are not mounted as a volume but can be easily accessed using the Cloudberry Explorer interface.
Configuring access to the XenData S3 storage account is straight forward, as shown opposite. After the storage account credentials have been added, Cloudberry Explorer has access to the applicable XenData S3 buckets.
Files and folders are downloaded from and uploaded to the accessible XenData buckets using a simple two-pane interface:
When configured as shown above, the right pane can be used to browse the file-folder structure in the XenData buckets and the left pane to browse the locally accessible files and folders. Files can be moved or copied between the panes using drag and drop or by using the buttons provided at the top of the window. The application also employs breadcrumb navigation making it easy to navigate within the current path.
When multiple files are being uploaded or downloaded, they are transferred in parallel for enhanced performance. Multi-part uploads provide good performance when a single large file is uploaded, however, when one single large file is downloaded, Cloudberry does not use multi-threading which means performance could be better in this special case.
Cloudberry Explorer is ideal for downloading files held on LTO, as it does not timeout even when there are delays of many minutes to get to the start of the file transfer. If a requested file is offline, Cloudberry Explorer indicates that there has been an error, provides feedback that the file is offline as well as the barcode of the cartridge that needs to be loaded to make the file accessible.
The client also provides limited bandwidth management; a maximum transfer speed when using cloud storage can be configured in the application preferences.
PBS
XenData’s fully supported clustered server meets all the requirements for our disaster recovery site. We have been very pleased with the SX-525 product and XenData’s technical team who have provided system design and integration services above and beyond expectations.
Crew Cuts
I did my research, and the best archive solution was from XenData which manages a robotic LTO library behind the scenes. This helps to minimize our total costs and allows us to focus on producing great content for our customers.
Ideal Systems Singapore
We partnered with XenData for the GlobeCast Broadcast facility rollout, because it offers one of the most cost effective, robust digital video archives on the market and a great migration alternative to some of the more expensive digital video archive vendor offerings.
North Shore Automation
Having completed over 25 joint installations of XenData archive systems, we have found everyone on the XenData team to be both highly professional and super responsive and their technology to be rock solid. They are truly a pleasure to work with.
This is Just a Test
With over 558 TB of content and growing, conventional backup solutions just don’t work for us. Our XenData system allows us to maintain an ongoing mirrored copy of our shared storage while creating replica LTO copies for offsite storage.
Excelencia
We have now installed over 170 XenData archive systems across Mexico and they have proven to be very reliable. In addition, the technical support from XenData has been outstanding.
