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.

We make our customers active everywhere.

Data-driven organizations trust Resilio to rapidly synchronize files across servers running a diversity of web and application workloads.

Customer Quote

"What surprised us the most was the dramatic improvement in project delivery times due to the fact that we could collaborate on everything among things really fast and seamlessly, and they had access to projects immediately, footage immediately—it was awesome."
– Santiago Lolago, IT Support Video Specialist at Ready Set

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.

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.

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.

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.