Thank you to the list for the leads; it seems I have some homework to do. For posterity I've summarized the suggestions I received below with a quick impression of the service offering from a skim of their website. Graham Dunn raises a good point that most of these services require an appliance on the local network which means it is a single point of failure, although it seems Nasuni is unique in that you can have multiple appliances provide distributed cluster-like access and the option of a virtual appliance has some interesting possibilities.
Ctera (www.ctera.com) >> CIFS and NFS primary access protocol, onsite physical appliance. Nasuni (www.nasuni.com) >> CIFS and NFS primary access protocol, onsite physical or virtual appliance >> for local caching and protocol acceleration. StorSimple (www.storsimple.com) >> iSCSI primary access protocol, onsite physical appliance for local caching >> and protocol acceleration. Amazon AWS w/ EC2 + EBS + DirectConnect (aws.amazon.com) >> Virtual file server hosted in the cloud with a direct high speed connection >> into your local Amazon datacenter. Google Docs (docs.google.com) >> Direct "in the cloud" document storage via a web interface. Dropbox for Business (www.dropbox.com/teams) >> Hub and spoke replicated file store, all data operations are local to the PC >> and changes replicated to all subscribed clients. -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/
