I set up a demo Nasuni filer. I enjoyed it (and later wrote about my experience meeting Andres, the founder: http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2011/09/nasuni-very-cool-technology/ )
--Matt On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Graham Dunn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process.
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