TeamDrive Helps Hamburg-Cloud Deliver Secure File-Sharing

Enterprise cloud synchronization provider TeamDrive Systems GmbH announced
implementation on the Hamburg-Cloud allowing the service provider IT works! Consulting GmbH & Co. KG to
deliver secure data synchronization and win a German IT award.

Hamburg-Cloud is operated from three professional data centers in
Hamburg to ensure that all data and applications are held within German
jurisdiction and adhere to the German data protection regulations. With the
increasing demand for secure data sharing between clouds, smartphones and
tablets, Hamburg-Cloud needed a cost effective, yet secure, option and turned
to its partner IT works! Consulting for advice. The result was the creation of
its ‘Smart Sync’ platform which is based on the server edition of TeamDrive.

"File sharing is a key
service offering for any serious cloud service provider, but without security
at a reasonable cost it will not be adopted. Working with TeamDrive we went
live with a fully, Hamburg-Cloud, branded offering less than 3 months after we
signed our agreement," explained Christian Schroeder, MD at the
regional cloud service provider, Hamburg-Cloud.

"Hamburg-Cloud has
developed a highly secure and scalable solution for data synchronization that
benefits from proven technology, yet deployed within its own control,"
comments Volker Oboda, CEO at TeamDrive, "This is a significant milestone as it demonstrates that cloud service
providers and enterprise customers can gain the same advanced data sharing and
synchronization technologies without having to make compromises over where data
is stored – especially when jurisdictional issues like the US Patriot Act could
be a major concern."

The Hamburg-Cloud ‘Smart Sync’ platform and TeamDrive received the
Web/Internet Security award at the 2012 IT Security Awards. This award
recognizes the innovative TeamDrive based solution that allows Windows, Linux,
Mac OS X and mobile devices running iOS and Android to
synchronize data across the devices of any team member.

Before transfer, TeamDrive encrypts files on both the cloud and the
device using the AES-256 algorithm with a separate symmetric AES-256 key
produced for each folder. As soon as members are invited to a group, the
symmetric key of the folder is encrypted with the public key of the group
member and sent to the new participant. The access data for the disk space on
the TeamDrive server or Cloud Deployment is also sent in an encrypted form.
Group members can decode the symmetric key using his or her private key and
join the folder to ensure only authorized group members have access to the
data.

TeamDrive has been checked by the experts of the Independent
Regional Centre for Data Protection of Schleswig-Holstein Unabhängiges Landeszentrum
für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein (ULD) and awarded its Data Protection
Seal of Privacy. The ULD is an office of the regional government of
Schleswig-Holstein and carries out state control and advisory functions in the
field of data protection and freedom of information.