File Streaming
Resilio Active Everywhere, a distributed data movement platform, delivers fast, flexible, on-demand large file access for hybrid and remote teams, without requiring full file downloads.
File Streaming For High Performance Remote File Access
Get fast, secure, on-demand access to large files, without full downloads.
Distributed teams increasingly rely on centralized data stored across cloud storage and on-premises environments. As file sizes grow and teams spread across locations, organizations face data sprawl, WAN bottlenecks, and slow access to the files users need to stay productive.
File streaming delivers an intelligent, high-performance approach to remote file access, providing fast local performance without full file replicas. Built into Resilio Active Everywhere, file streaming enables users to open and work with large files immediately, fetching only the data they need first, and hydrating data on demand wherever it lives.
Teams can work faster while IT maintains control over permissions, access controls, and authentication policies across global infrastructure, making it easier to share files across distributed locations with centralized governance and a simple experience for both admins and end users, without requiring full file copies everywhere.
File streaming delivers an intelligent, high-performance approach to remote file access, providing fast local performance without full file replicas. Built into Resilio Active Everywhere, file streaming enables users to open and work with large files immediately, fetching only the data they need first, and hydrating data on demand wherever it lives.
Teams can work faster while IT maintains control over permissions, access controls, and authentication policies across global infrastructure, making it easier to share files across distributed locations with centralized governance and a simple experience for both admins and end users, without requiring full file copies everywhere.
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Data-driven organizations trust Resilio to rapidly synchronize files across servers running a diversity of web and application workloads.
What Is File Streaming?
Resilio Active Everywhere provides instant access to massive files by streaming only the data you need, delivering local performance without full downloads.
File Streaming transforms how distributed teams access large files. Instead of downloading entire multi-gigabyte files, the platform streams only the specific portions of data (byte ranges) required, on demand and in real time.
File Streaming is the progressive-hydration data path used by TSS to fetch only the byte ranges an app requests and, if needed, cache them per the policy you set. This provides a modern alternative to traditional file servers and legacy network shares, while improving performance for remote and hybrid workflows.
File Streaming is the progressive-hydration data path used by TSS to fetch only the byte ranges an app requests and, if needed, cache them per the policy you set. This provides a modern alternative to traditional file servers and legacy network shares, while improving performance for remote and hybrid workflows.
How File Streaming Works
Cache-based, block-level streaming transforms remote file access into a local-speed experience, ideal for hybrid and remote work.
Resilio file streaming is built on our distributed data movement platform’s progressive hydration architecture. It combines cloud reach with local storage performance, without requiring full file downloads or replicas.
When a user opens a file, only the required data blocks are streamed on demand. Files are served locally through a Resilio cache or agent, allowing applications to interact with them as if they were stored on local disk. As users save changes, Resilio Active Everywhere propagates updates to authorized endpoints based on policy, maintaining a single, current dataset without requiring full replicas everywhere.
Accessed data is intelligently cached locally to accelerate future access while minimizing storage and bandwidth usage. Any changes are written back and synchronized across peers in real time, ensuring teams always work with the most current version of the data.
This cache-based, block-level streaming approach delivers a true local-speed experience for distributed and hybrid teams, without the cost, complexity, or lock-in of traditional file access solutions.
Keep a golden copy in your primary storage or cloud. Endpoints and edge sites access the copy for streaming through policy without turning every location into a full replica. This reduces strain on the IT infrastructure while improving performance across distributed sites.
When a user opens a file, only the required data blocks are streamed on demand. Files are served locally through a Resilio cache or agent, allowing applications to interact with them as if they were stored on local disk. As users save changes, Resilio Active Everywhere propagates updates to authorized endpoints based on policy, maintaining a single, current dataset without requiring full replicas everywhere.
Accessed data is intelligently cached locally to accelerate future access while minimizing storage and bandwidth usage. Any changes are written back and synchronized across peers in real time, ensuring teams always work with the most current version of the data.
This cache-based, block-level streaming approach delivers a true local-speed experience for distributed and hybrid teams, without the cost, complexity, or lock-in of traditional file access solutions.
Keep a golden copy in your primary storage or cloud. Endpoints and edge sites access the copy for streaming through policy without turning every location into a full replica. This reduces strain on the IT infrastructure while improving performance across distributed sites.
Distributed. High-Speed. Automated.
Resilio Active Everywhere empowers organizations to efficiently, securely, and economically orchestrate how data moves and where it lives across global infrastructure—delivering the performance of a distributed architecture with centralized control.
The high-performance data movement platform is easily managed and deployed by orgs of any scale—from collaborative creative groups to the world’s most demanding DevOps and Engineering teams.
Instant Access to Large Files Everywhere
File streaming eliminates the wait associated with downloading massive files, giving distributed teams immediate, on-demand access to the data they need to stay productive.
Open multi-gigabyte files instantly without waiting for full downloads—including 20GB CAD models, 100GB video files, and multi-terabyte project directories
Stream only the data you need, improving WAN efficiency while reducing cloud egress costs and network congestion, even over limited internet connections
True local performance for remote users powered by intelligent caching gateways or desktop agents, so files appear and behave as if they’re stored locally—even when data resides in the cloud or on-premises
Secure, VPN-less access that enables fast, direct connections to remote files without VPN complexity, lowering latency for distributed teams
Faster Workflows for Creative and Engineering Teams
File streaming keeps power users productive by providing real-time access to active data in the tools they already use, across every major platform.
End-user application compatibility with tools like Adobe Creative Cloud (including Premiere Pro), Autodesk, SolidWorks, Avid Media Composer, and Pro Tools
Cross-platform support for Windows, macOS, and Linux across desktops, laptops, and edge environments
Real-time collaboration across locations so distributed teams can work on shared projects without delays caused by file transfers or version conflicts
Reduced idle time and project bottlenecks by eliminating the download-before-you-work paradigm that slows distributed production pipelines
Operational Simplicity for IT
IT teams gain centralized control over how distributed users access data, without the overhead of managing full replicas or complex VPN configurations at every site.
Policy-driven access controls that govern permissions, caching behavior, and authentication across global infrastructure from a single control plane
No full replicas required, reducing storage footprint, backup scope, and day-to-day administrative overhead at remote and edge sites
Works with your existing infrastructure—any storage, any cloud—eliminating vendor lock-in and avoiding costly data migrations
Scales to global deployments with consistent operations managed uniformly, whether serving ten sites or ten thousand
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