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Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud

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Post by tteam »

rdl wrote: post #30

Silicon Valley startups might not think it's a big deal, but being able to run entirely on a private network (either "behind a firewall", or an entirely disconnected network) is pretty huge. Without AeroFS, your choices today kind of suck, especially for 10-500 person companies (or bigger companies where your corporate option sucks or isn't available). Dropbox doesn't work if you care about security. You're left with…

You can checkout our Tonido FileCloud (http://getfilecloud.com) product. It will allows you to host your own Box.net or Dropbox like solution behind your company firewall.

Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud

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Post by cmsdog »

rdl wrote: post #30

Silicon Valley startups might not think it's a big deal, but being able to run entirely on a private network (either "behind a firewall", or an entirely disconnected network) is pretty huge. Without AeroFS, your choices today kind of suck, especially for 10-500 person companies (or bigger companies where your corporate option sucks or isn't available). Dropbox doesn't work if you care about security. You're left with…

I don't know where you get the idea that there are not good choices for on-premise, file share and sync solutions. There are products like filecloud (http://www.getfilecloud.com) which have been solving this pain very nicely.

Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud

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Post by porker »

mindslight wrote: post #21
nostromo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just use BTSync for syncing? I use it for this purpose and it's fantastic. For backup you can use one of many solutions to archive to S3. I wouldn't recommend Time Machine.

Why not use Unison? It only does pairwise synchronization, but is Free software and extremely mature. (sigh, it seems the tech community has become blind to anything that isn't heavily blogvertised.)

> (sigh, it seems the tech community has become blind to anything that isn't heavily blogvertised.)

There's so much released and so much noise, it's hard to keep track of all the good things that come out - especially if they're not mentioned within their tribe of friends/followed ppl.

I don't know how to get round that - the web is huge and no one can keep track (or have a network that touches) all of the open source releases.

Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud

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Post by ketralnis »

HorizonXP wrote: post #20
nostromo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just use BTSync for syncing? I use it for this purpose and it's fantastic. For backup you can use one of many solutions to archive to S3. I wouldn't recommend Time Machine.

I do like BTSync and considered it, but I'm not the biggest fan of the idea that my data is stored on everyone's computer. AeroFS allows me some semblance of control, and as I grow, it will allow me to add users easily. I won't know until I try it though, I could just as easily change my mind and use BTSync.

It doesn't put your data on everyone's computer. The data goes onto the computers that are sharing the folder. If you have two computers, the data is on two computers.

Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud

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Post by smtddr »

I've been using AeroFS for awhile on Linux(Mint & Debian). I have to say it's pretty nice. I don't actually know what makes it better than dropbox and all the other choices; never looked into any advanced features. A buddy just sent me an invite & I started using it and now it's part of my workflow since it works reliably between my work & home machine.

Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud

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Post by rdl »

cmsdog wrote: post #32
rdl wrote: post #30

Silicon Valley startups might not think it's a big deal, but being able to run entirely on a private network (either "behind a firewall", or an entirely disconnected network) is pretty huge. Without AeroFS, your choices today kind of suck, especially for 10-500 person companies (or bigger companies where your corporate option sucks or isn't available). Dropbox doesn't work if you care about security. You're left with…

I don't know where you get the idea that there are not good choices for on-premise, file share and sync solutions. There are products like filecloud ( http://www.getfilecloud.com ) which have been solving this pain very nicely.

On iOS, even AeroFS kind of sucks, due to some horrible decisions Apple made. Basically every app has to adopt every storage provider's API, and right now, only Dropbox and maybe Box have any takeup. (and iCloud, of course, but iCloud sucks a lot, isn't self-hostable or even enterprise hostable, and is horrible.)

Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud

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Post by barrkel »

HorizonXP wrote: post #5

So I'm actually setting up a private cloud for my company right now. It's a company of 1, so the requirements are quite extensive. :-P I'm building a FreeNAS server with 6x3TB hard drives in a RAID-Z2 config. My goal is to allow my Mac to use it for Time Machine backups, but to also use AeroFS as my file sync mechanism when I'm both in the office and on the road. Hopefully it works out smoothly. I'll have to figure o…

Check out the recovery probabilities of raidz2 vs raid10. You're winning ~17% more space at the cost of a substantial performance hit, and almost no difference in reliability, depending on how you estimate HDD failure rates. Raidz2 is not fast when everything is working well, and if any of your drives develop a speed problem, the whole array will be reduced to that speed.

I have a 11x4T raidz2, and will be migrating to 3x4x4T raid10. My last array was 2x4x1.5T raidz1, 3 drive failures in its 5 year lifetime, but not concurrent so no data lost.

I use CrashPlan to get data from one place to another; I back up NAS to CrashPlan, PCs to CrashPlan, and PCs to NAS. If you don't use CrashPlan's app to back up to their cloud, it doesn't stop you from using it to back up to other machines you own. And it works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and with a bit of hacking, FreeBSD.

Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud

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Post by rajbala »

An "enterprise Dropbox" conversation is one that many customers will have with AeroFS. I know this from experience trying to sell this very type of product.

The challenge is that sales cycles are long and potentially high touch. One way to mitigate that is by getting sales distribution through 3rd parties. But avoid integrating with a bunch of 3rd party storage platforms unless you get commitments for leads from the vendors. In other words view integration efforts as an engineering to sales arbitrage.

Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud

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Post by karanbhangui »

nostromo wrote: post #17
HorizonXP wrote: post #5

So I'm actually setting up a private cloud for my company right now. It's a company of 1, so the requirements are quite extensive. :-P I'm building a FreeNAS server with 6x3TB hard drives in a RAID-Z2 config. My goal is to allow my Mac to use it for Time Machine backups, but to also use AeroFS as my file sync mechanism when I'm both in the office and on the road. Hopefully it works out smoothly. I'll have to figure o…

Why not just use BTSync for syncing? I use it for this purpose and it's fantastic. For backup you can use one of many solutions to archive to S3. I wouldn't recommend Time Machine.

Had high hopes for BTSync, and we used it for several months on recommendation of a colleague. However, we found it was fairly buggy in terms of handling files with non-alpha numeric characters in it, and files just wouldn't sync. We suspect it might have been a rogue path parser for .SyncIgnore, not following unix file conventions (we were using it on OSX and Linux), but recently moved over to AeroFS and haven't had a problem since.

Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud

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Post by giovannibajo1 »

cmsdog wrote: post #32
rdl wrote: post #30

Silicon Valley startups might not think it's a big deal, but being able to run entirely on a private network (either "behind a firewall", or an entirely disconnected network) is pretty huge. Without AeroFS, your choices today kind of suck, especially for 10-500 person companies (or bigger companies where your corporate option sucks or isn't available). Dropbox doesn't work if you care about security. You're left with…

I don't know where you get the idea that there are not good choices for on-premise, file share and sync solutions. There are products like filecloud ( http://www.getfilecloud.com ) which have been solving this pain very nicely.

I've been struggling to find a good Dropbox alternative for on premise. Aerofs is missing the option to share a folder/file through a link to non-aerofs-users which is vital to our workflow.

This filecloud is interesting, thanks. Any other product that you are aware of? I thought I had found them all, but you never know :)

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