CTERA Portal is a scalable cloud service delivery platform that you install at your own datacenter or in a cloud environment like Amazon Web Services and then use to create, deliver and manage cloud storage applications, including file sharing and sync, backup, and mobile collaboration. CTERA Portal is compatible with cloud storage infrastructure from multiple vendors, including EMC, HDS, IBM and AWS.

CTERA Portal Datacenter Edition enables you to extend cloud services to remote sites and mobile users, via CTERA Cloud Storage Gateways, CTERA Agents, and CTERA Mobile. The portal ensures data consistency, maintains version history and facilitates file sharing amongst users, regardless of their access method.

CTERA employs both global source-based deduplication and data compression. This ensures that only incremental data changes are transferred for storage in the cloud, and that data blocks are stored only once, which dramatically reduces storage capacity needs and overall network traffic.

CTERA Portal enables you to create one or more tenants, called Virtual Portals, on a single set of physical servers. Virtual Portals are accessed by end users and management staff via web-based interfaces.

CTERA cloud storage gateways and endpoint agents are remotely managed with CTERA Portal using a single web-based console. Template-based management, centralized monitoring, customized alerting and remote software and firmware upgrade capabilities make it easy to manage cloud storage gateways of various types and sizes as well as individual endpoint agents – up to hundreds of thousands of connected devices – with no need for on-site IT presence in remote locations.