Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud
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Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud
#2Jesse was launching this at PyCon last week. It's a simple appliance NAS server that your normal, every day end users save files to via CIFS or NFS. It just happens to back onto the cloud.
I.e: a secretary saves files to their D: drive, and it's in the cloud. And when you run out of disk space, you buy more from your cloud provider and suddenly there's another 10TB on your D: drive.
I find this very neat as it brings cloud benefits (around reliability and expansion) to real people, using crappy early 2000s desktop apps - ie, most people using computers.
Jesse's blog port on the launch: http://jessenoller.com/2010/02/09/say-hello-nasuni-launches-...
Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud
#3Jesse was launching this at PyCon last week. It's a simple appliance NAS server that your normal, every day end users save files to via CIFS or NFS. It just happens to back onto the cloud. I.e: a secretary saves files to their D: drive, and it's in the cloud. And when you run out of disk space, you buy more from your cloud provider and suddenly there's another 10TB on your D: drive. I find this very neat as it brings…
So it's like a little more flexible ZumoDrive http://www.zumodrive.com/ (YC backed).
Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud
#4For some usage cases isn't Coda a suitable replacement?
Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud
#5Actually Jesse Noller works for a company that launched this product. I, initially, got the impression that he founded this company-which is not correct.
Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud
#6For some usage cases isn't Coda a suitable replacement? http://coda.cs.cmu.edu/
While Coda has been around for a while and is great - it looks like this provides a different service. This is cloud based, does your backups for you, and doesn't require that you have your own servers, which reduces maintenance. Code is software - not a "turn key" full solution.
But you are correct, if cost cutting isn't your issue and you wanted a distributed file system that's leaps and bounds over NFS that would be your ticket.
Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud
#7Actually Jesse Noller works for a company that launched this product. I, initially, got the impression that he founded this company-which is not correct.
Yes. That's a misleading title
Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud
#8At USD3000/year + storage, it's a little more expensive than jungledisk, etc... I wonder if they'll gain the traction they need at the price?
It's an interesting price point actually.
Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud
#9Seems to be very similar to Jungle Disk's business edition. However, I like that nasuni offers access to the remote data after one stops using their service.
Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud
#10Jesse was launching this at PyCon last week. It's a simple appliance NAS server that your normal, every day end users save files to via CIFS or NFS. It just happens to back onto the cloud. I.e: a secretary saves files to their D: drive, and it's in the cloud. And when you run out of disk space, you buy more from your cloud provider and suddenly there's another 10TB on your D: drive. I find this very neat as it brings…
> real people, using crappy early 2000s desktop apps
I wish more companies would concentrate on these kinds of uses rather than whatever the next social media thing is supposed to be. It basically describes my sys admin life and is something I will cheerfully spend money on.