I'm actually sitting in the "Cloud storage" tutorial at LISA11 right now -- Gerald Carter's examples of cloud storage appliance vendors (think HFS system with the cloud as the tape tier) are Ctera (http://www.ctera.com/), Nasuni (http://www.nasuni.com/), and StorSimple (this one is more application/block storage).
Graham On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:32 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
