4,000+
Organizations
Run On Files.com
SMBs through the Fortune 500, including companies that retired NetApp, Isilon, and Windows file servers onto the platform.
Retire The File Server — Keep The Drive Letters
Files.com replaces an aging Windows file server or NAS with cloud storage that mounts as the exact same drive letters your filer used — J:, W:, Z:, at the exact same paths. Every login script, scheduled task, Office template, and line-of-business app keeps resolving, because the path never changed; only the storage behind it did.
IT defines the drive-letter mappings once and enforces them across the whole fleet, so new employees get the right drives on day one — no hardware to refresh, no closet, no backup headache. Starting fresh with a distributed team? Same Desktop App, same governance, identity-driven folders that follow each person.
Same drive letters on Windows
No hardware to refresh
No credit card to start
4,000 organizations rely on Files.com every day
Real companies. Real file flows. Real results.
The Platform Behind The Drive
This is the same Files.com that 4,000+ organizations already run for secure storage and file transfer. Now it sits behind your mapped drives.
#1
Gartner Peer Insights
Ranked Vendor
The top-rated managed file transfer vendor in Gartner Peer Insights, and a Leader on G2.
15 years
Zero breaches
In Production
Files.com has run as a managed cloud platform since 2010 with zero breaches the whole time — the kind of control the box in the closet never gave you.
8 regions
Data residency
Where The Data Lives
Choose where the storage that replaces your filer sits, across eight global data-residency zones.
The Drive Letters Survive The Move
Copying the data was never the hard part. The hard part is everything that points at the old server — every J: mapping, every hard-coded path in a script or app. That is what kills the project. Files.com keeps all of it exactly as it was.
The Same Drive Letters, On Day One
Pin a connection to J:, W:, or Z: — the exact letters your filer used — and the Desktop App mounts that drive in Windows Explorer every time, instead of grabbing the next free letter.
Set The Mappings Once For Everyone
An administrator decides which letters point at which folders in a Desktop Configuration Profile, then assigns it to one person, a Group, or the whole company. The drives mount on their own, locked so users cannot change them.
Hard-Coded Paths Keep Resolving
Login scripts, scheduled tasks, Office templates, Access databases, VBA macros, and line-of-business apps with Z:\shared\ wired inside them keep working — the path did not change, only the storage behind it did.
Streamed, Not Synced
Files download when someone opens them and upload when they save — nothing is copied to every laptop up front. The drive acts like the old NAS, and because the transfer is fast, it feels like a local disk.
What You Actually Want
The storage moves and nothing else does. The J: drive is still the J: drive. The scripts still run. The users notice nothing. The cloud is behind it now instead of a box in the closet — held off-site, no hardware to refresh, managed from one place — but every drive letter and path your workstations and apps depend on stays exactly where it was. Keeping those paths is the whole point, and it is the thing the sync-folder tools simply cannot do.
How Files.com Does It
Four things the platform already does, set up together to retire a file server.
The Desktop App That Keeps The Drive Letters
In Mounted Drive Mode, the Desktop App shows cloud storage as a mapped drive in Windows or a named volume in macOS Finder. You set the drive-letter mappings centrally and push the installer out silently through SCCM, GPO, Intune, or PDQ, so the move finishes across every machine instead of one at a time.
The Storage That Lives Behind The Drive
Behind the drive can be Files.com storage, or a Remote Server Mount pointed at the S3, Azure Blob, or Google Cloud bucket you already pay for. Either way the user sees the same drive letter — where the files actually live is your call, and they never have to know.
Identity That Decides Who Sees Which Drive
Access follows the directory you already run — SSO across Entra ID, Okta, Active Directory, Google, and any SAML provider, with SCIM. Nine permission levels per user or Group decide who can read, write, or contribute. When someone leaves, you cut their access in one place in your identity provider, and their drives go with them.
A Bridge For The Shares That Stay On-Prem
Some data has to stay local — a manufacturing floor, a branch office. The Files.com Agent connects that SMB or NFS share to the platform over an outbound-only connection, so there are no inbound firewall changes and no VPN. Users reach it through the same drive letters as everything else.
Teams Running Governed Storage On Files.com
“Files.com is a secure and easy-to-set-up product with multiple integration options for on-premise servers or any of the public cloud servers. We can have Active Directory-based corporate authentication as well as local user creation on their platform, and we can manage permissions independently.”
Ajay Kadu
Lead Consultant, Infosys
“Files.com acts as both a server and a client, supporting various protocols, which is very useful. Since I have been using Files.com, I have never had any major issues or interruptions in operations.”
Regis Litre
Chief Information Officer, Rag & Bone
The Four Paths Off The Old Filer
When you retire a file server, you are usually choosing between another hardware refresh, a cloud-NAS gateway, Egnyte, or a tool like Box or SharePoint. Here is how Files.com stacks up against each.
Against Egnyte
Egnyte gives users a sync folder, not J: at the original path — and it costs more than Files.com. With Files.com you keep the drive letters and the hard-coded paths, and the bill is usually a fraction of Egnyte’s, cheaper per gigabyte and per user.
Against Cloud-NAS Gateways
Nasuni and CTERA put an appliance in front of cloud storage that you have to deploy, patch, and maintain. Files.com keeps the paths with the Desktop App and a configuration profile instead — no appliance to run — and the same storage is also a full sharing, automation, and audit platform.
Against Another Hardware Refresh
A new NetApp, Isilon, or HPE filer leaves you the same single point of failure, the same backup burden, the same maintenance contract, and the same end-of-life conversation in three years. Files.com routinely lands at a lower total cost — no appliance, no support contract, no refresh cycle.
Against Box, SharePoint, And Dropbox
These tools give users a new sync folder, which means going through every script and app to fix the paths. None of them can show the cloud as J: or Z: at the exact same paths. Files.com is the one option where the storage moves and every drive letter and hard-coded path stays put.
Keep The Paths, Cut The Bill
The only reason a hardware refresh ever felt safer than the cloud was the drive letters. Files.com keeps those, so the safer choice is now also the cheaper one. No appliance, no maintenance contract, no refresh every three years — usually a fraction of the cost of Egnyte, and cheaper per gigabyte and per user. Files.com publishes its pricing, so you see the number before you ask.
That turns “we’d kill the file server if we could fix all those paths” into a weekend job. The move actually finishes, because the paths never changed.
The Controls The Filer Never Had
The storage that replaces the box in the closet comes with the audit log, identity, and compliance a file server was never built to give you.
Governed, Audited, Durable
The storage that replaces the filer is held off-site, encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit, and every file action is written to an audit log no one can edit. The box in the closet gave you none of that.
Compliant Out Of The Box
SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, and CSA STAR, with a HIPAA BAA and GDPR DPA available. Used in production by banks, healthcare, and other regulated industries.
Enterprise Identity
SSO and SAML against Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Active Directory, Google, OneLogin, and Auth0, with SCIM provisioning, nine permission levels, IP allowlisting, and password policies.
Support From People Who Know The Platform
Planning the move — drive-letter profiles, silent deployment, identity — is the kind of thing you want a real engineer on the other end of the line for.
An All-Engineer Support Desk
The people who answer the phone are engineers who know the platform, not a tier-one queue reading a script. When a drive mapping or a profile misbehaves, you reach someone who can fix it.
Onboarding Included
Get drive-letter profiles, identity, and storage stood up fast. Strategic enterprise deployments get our onboarding people embedded as forward deployed engineers.
Documentation That Goes Deep
Thorough docs cover the EXE-installer requirement for Mounted Drive Mode, silent fleet deployment, and Configuration Profile precedence — enough to plan the cutover before you start it.
File Server Replacement FAQ
What IT teams ask most when retiring a filer onto Files.com.
Retire The Filer Without Breaking What Points At It
The same drive letters, the same paths, on cloud storage you never have to refresh — with the governance and audit the old file server never had. Stand up a drive-letter profile on a real workstation during the free trial.
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