Good morning LOPSA: The powers-that-be have tasked me with the dubious honor of assessing the IT services that are currently hosted in-house which are ripe for moving "into the cloud". I was given a specific list of services to "start me off" and they include the usual candidates (email, web sites, etc.) however they also threw me a curve ball by including "file shares". I struggle to imagine how we could possibly move CIFS file shares out of the local network and maintain anything resembling decent performance and the level of control (permissions, extension filtering, quotas, etc.) we currently have with a cloud service; not to mention securing the traffic effectively and ensuring privacy. My gut reaction is that file shares just aren't good candidates for "cloud services".
We are a relatively small operation with approximately 300 users across two locations based in Texas and New York in the US. The file set available via CIFS shares is approximately 4 TB with perhaps 10% of that being actually actively manipulated/referenced data. Hopefully you've already surmised that we're a Windows shop which means we need to ideally preserve the mapped drive letter and file system navigation experience for the client if possible. I'm hoping someone on the list may be able to offer some insight into services they've had experience with or researched for similar reasons previously. They don't have to be straight up CIFS in a cloud solutions but ideally should not require a radical reeducation campaign to even start using the service. Thanks in advance, Daniel Muller _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
