The caveat with all these appliances is that they treat the cloud as a block storage device (doing de-dup and encryption), so you can't get your data back without the appliance. The appliance becomes a single point of failure, as well as a single point of scaling (you have "infinite" storage, but may be limited in the number of concurrent connections).
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Matt Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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/
