Kumo provides seamless cross-platform integration of cloud and local storage in managed environments, self-service storage configuration.
Built by Indiana University for the higher education community, Kumo is a secure and low-cost alternative to dedicated storage.
Learn more or get in touch to schedule a demo or technical overview.
Kumo enables students, faculty, and staff to easily access their files wherever they are, from any managed computer on campus, including lab workstations and virtual environments such as Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop.
Users access files via mounted drives in Windows Explorer, and Open/Save dialogs in applications. These drives are silently setup by the Kumo client and are ready to go within seconds of logging in. Files are accessed on demand by the client rather than synced, which minimizes local storage requirements, and all file I/O occurs strictly between the cloud service and the user's machine.
Users can specify exactly what storage they want to use via Kumo's self-service portal, with options including:
- Box
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- OneDrive
- OneDrive for Business
- Local file servers (SMB)
- SharePoint/WebDAV servers
Administrators can customize which storage options are available globally for all users, or for certain groups of users via federation entitlements.
Kumo has been architected from the ground up for security.
A user manages his/her storage profile on a web Portal hosted by Indiana University and is authenticated through your school's single sign-on service via InCommon federation. All users' storage profile data is encrypted both at rest and in transit.
The Client application that mounts the cloud-facing drives is authenticated by a mutually-trusted Access Broker service that runs within your domain. The Client then interacts with the storage provider's publicly-available APIs over HTTPS.
Kumo has been analyzed, vetted, and penetration-tested by IU's own University Information Security Office.
Kumo can be site-licensed for an annual price of $0.33 per enrolled student, with a $5000 minimum. One price gets you updates, reporting and support, and we eat our own dogfood so you'll get solid stability and performance.
You can pilot Kumo for a few months at no cost to make sure that it's the right solution for you.
For more information about Kumo please see our public documentation cache on GitHub.
In particular, you might want to check out the:
- Service Plan, which details the nuts and bolts of the service;
- Kumo in a Nutshell, a set of high-level slides that includes images from this page;
- Network and Federation Setup (Onboarding), which details the networking and federation requirements for the service
We'd also invite you to get in touch! We'd love to demo the service for you, learn more about what you need, and get the ball rolling on a pilot.
