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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

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Post by jnoller »

nailer wrote: post #2

Jesse 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…

Why I'm feeling really complimented right now - I'm just a Nasuni employee. Last week at PyCon I did a lightning talk thanking the Python world for everything that helped us along.

But; back to the product - you're spot on. It's a auto-scaling NAS device, with snapshots/versioning, end to end encryption, etc. There's actually no need to "buy more" from the cloud vendor - we do that automatically/seamlessly.

Cloud storage is nice because there is no real "transaction" to buy new storage - you just consume what you need. So your office, secretaries, and CEOs can just write to the shared drive endlessly. The never ending hard drive, so to speak.

Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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Post by jnoller »

For what it's worth - I'm Jesse :)

Like I've said in previous replies - I'm just a (very happy) employee. On launch day I did post to HN (here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112218).

If you're interested in details, take a look at the technology section, FAQ:

http://www.nasuni.com/product/technology/

http://www.nasuni.com/resources/faqs/

It's important to note that an important feature of the Filer is that we have the capability to talk to $N cloud storage providers, see: http://www.nasuni.com/about-nasuni/partners/

Finally, you can take a look at the blog posts the team has been doing since launch. We've been covering various aspects of the Filer, including security, testing the cloud providers, etc.

http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/

Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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Post by nailer »

jnoller wrote: post #12
simplegeek wrote: post #5

Actually Jesse Noller works for a company that launched this product. I, initially, got the impression that he founded this company-which is not correct.

Correct; I am an employee, my boss is one of the founders.

Sorry, you'd mentioned 'we're launching this week' during PyCon and I thought that (along with your Internet Celebrity (TM) status) implied you had some level of equity.

Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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Post by jnoller »

nailer wrote: post #14
jnoller wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct; I am an employee, my boss is one of the founders.

Sorry, you'd mentioned 'we're launching this week' during PyCon and I thought that (along with your Internet Celebrity (TM) status) implied you had some level of equity.

It's all OK :) I'm glad (ecstatic actually) that you were excited about it enough to post about it!

Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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Post by jnoller »

ra wrote: post #8

At 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.

I believe the features speak for themselves. End-to-end encryption, versioning/snapshots (no more backups), the ability to talk to $N cloud providers rather than a single one, simple to use and unified management for an entire company to use.

Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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Post by 0wned »

nailer wrote: post #2

Jesse 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…

Why you should not use the cloud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjfaCoA2sQk

Yes, it's funny, but also very true. Many of us have to actually deal with all of these buzzwords. You can't outsource responsibility.

Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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Post by 0wned »

m0nty wrote: post #10
nailer wrote: post #2

Jesse 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.

Some desktops apps should not be in the cloud. Letting the cloud generate your passwords is a bad idea. Complexity kills and the cloud ain't simple. Who has outsourced what to where?

Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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Post by sachinag »

jnoller wrote: post #13

For what it's worth - I'm Jesse :) Like I've said in previous replies - I'm just a (very happy) employee. On launch day I did post to HN (here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112218 ). If you're interested in details, take a look at the technology section, FAQ: http://www.nasuni.com/product/technology/ http://www.nasuni.com/resources/faqs/ It's important to note that an important feature of the Filer is that we…

At my company, we continually are looking for new providers for shared storage. Right now, we're on Dropbox, but I'm evaluating just throwing them all into Google Docs since they give us free storage and we can copy/paste direct URLs for files into IMs and e-mails.

Can you compare Nasuni's offerings to Dropbox and GDocs? The "choose your cloud" is nice, I suppose, but that's way too complicated for me as a business person who can barely write SQL.

Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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Post by nailer »

0wned wrote: post #18
m0nty wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Some desktops apps should not be in the cloud. Letting the cloud generate your passwords is a bad idea. Complexity kills and the cloud ain't simple. Who has outsourced what to where?

Agreed. But in this case, neither the file server provider nor the backend storage provider can see your data - speaking to Jesse quickly at PyCon this seems to have been a very deliberate design decision.
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