Your Data on Your Terms

DriveShare comes in four different editions, Personal, Professional, Corporate and Enterprise.

These product editions cover a wide range of use from the home to a large corporation. Additional license packs to add users are available for each. Currently only the Personal Edition has been released, the other four should be release by mid year 2009.

Personal Edition -- $49.00
Elegant in its simplicity, the Personal Edition of DriveShare allows you to have three simultaneous connections of any type, to your server. It's very simple to use and offers you a way to add users, create groups of users, and connect to the Rendezvous service and to other hosts. This is perfect for the home/hobbyist type of users that just need something that works. Of course you can always add one or more user license packs to get additional user.

Professional Edition -- $99.00 (coming soon)
The Professional Edition adds a few security features to those included with the Personal Edition including token support, access security and IP firewall. It also includes advanced options for dismounting your drives.

Security Tokens
Security tokens offer more security options. The Professional Edition of DriveShare supports physical security tokens. A physical security token is a device that contains a key that cannot be copied out of the device.

Some ways that you can use a physical security token include:

- Use one as an emergency access mechanism. Store it in a secure place and if you ever forget your password, the token can let you back in.
- Protect the token with a short PIN number. Even if someone looks over your shoulder and captures your PIN number, it's useless to them without the token.
- Store all your DriveShare authorizations in one token and protect them all with a single password or PIN number.

Load DriveShare onto the token along with authorizations. With one simple USB device, you can install DriveShare and access all your shares securely. Mail or give it to a friend, coworker, or family member and it will install DriveShare and walk them through accessing their folders instantly. If lost or stolen, it is useless without the PIN number, and you can revoke or change its authorization easily if necessary.

Access Security Requirements

DriveShare can be configured with additional security. This allows you to have the mounted drive or directory unmount (detach) or prompt for a password when:

- A specific time has been reached.
- The screen saver activates.
- No activity has been detected.
- A Hot-Key is pressed.
- The drive is unmounted.
- The token is removed.

Your data is important and this feature will allow you to protect your mounted resources when you leave your computer. If you're at a cyber-cafe or have roommates, or any time your computer may be accessed by others, you can use the above security settings to detach or protect your resources.

IP Firewall

This will allow you to work on an inclusive or exclusive access scheme. Basically you can specify that the entire Internet is blocked from your server with the exception of the access masks you provide. Or, you can block out those IP ranges that concern you. This has an easy to use interface and doesn't require any real advanced knowledge.

Corporate Edition
As an MIS manager with a growing population of staff that now works solely from home, you need to update specific software to systems on diverse networks. Add to this that most drive resource sharing doesn't work off a local LAN and add in the requirements for encryption and security and you have a huge headache. DriveShare deployed throughout your corporation will allow you to deploy software and have a central repository for your information. This allows you to manage and secure your network while using your available tools for backups.
The Corporate Edition has all of the features of the Professional Edition but increases the allowed users to 100. You can purchase additional license packs to increase that number.

Reports

Additional Reports including access log by both user and files they've accessed.

Enterprise Edition
The Enterprise Edition is designed for companies that have a large quantity of users and wish to interconnect DriveShare with existing resources or user management. The Enterprise Edition has all the features of the Corporate Edition but is licensed on a per machine basis allowing unlimited users for each machine.

External Methods

The Enterprise Edition of DriveShare supports an interface to allow custom code to interface with the server directly. For UNIX platforms, the custom code must be supplied in the form of a shared object (.so) file. For WIN32 platforms, the custom code must be supplied in the form of a DLL file.

HTPPS/CGI

DriveShare will also allow you to authorize users and shares by use of https. When a user tries to access the server it will make a query to a defined web server and get the authorization as well as the shares that the users are allowed to view.

Custom Views

Probably the single most powerful feature of the Enterprise Edition is that you can create custom views that you can then attach to groups. This means that instead of having to share each directory tree you can put together several trees to make a custom view that is exported to the users after authentication.

ISP Edition
Are you an ISP? Tired of support calls from users that have problems transferring pictures, music and HTML files to your servers? Get tired of explaining how to edit, save, pull up another application to transfer and save their documents to their website? Wouldn't it be nice to have them just drag and drop it into what looks like a local drive? So even if their website is hosted on a Linux you can still make their /www directory appear as a local drive on their system. DriveShare will reduce the quantity of support calls and increase customer service. And isn't keeping a customer really the most important part of your business?

Additional Capabilities

When you add on additional Vivatech software the features and capabilities of each expand.

• CryptoFS
  When used with CryptoFS you can communicate to the secure file system on the remote machine. When CFS is authenticated remotely the local system does not have access to the information, only the remote system that provided the proper credentials. This allows you to securely mount and access data from your office or home that is using an encrypted file system. Only the combination of both systems will allow this type of exceptional security. Other systems would require that you mount the drive on a system and then share it. Since DriveShare talks to CryptoFS using an internal secure protocol the remote system will not have any access to the data.
• Reflections
  When used with Reflections you will be able to it will allow you to remotely log into your files on the remote Reflections server. This can be very useful when your main system is turned off or has suffered a drive failure. Imagine always having secure access to your files no matter what happens to your system. Vivatech will shortly be offering a constant file backup system using DriveShare, Reflections and CryptoFS and this will not only backup your files to a cryptographically secure partition but allow you instant access to any of your files. Of course, you don't need us to provide this service as you can just as easily get two complete sets of applications and do this with any of your friends that have adequate space and bandwidth.