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Excellent approach good job.
I also love the idea. It's like Dropbox, but for enterprise users!
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 p…
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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 p…
Does anyone worry about the built-in Law Enforcement Access systems that the cloud services have? Bruce Schneier wrote an essay ( http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hackin... ) describing why that was bad and how it played into the Chinese hack of gmail. I hate to be a wet blanket, but just can't help to wonder, how many people stop and think of their privacy and the privacy of their corporate data…
Storing your data in the cloud, in the clear does open you to risk, which is one of the reasons cloud storage has not "taken off" for businesses in general, and why we do so much work to encrypt and protect all data before it is sent over the wire.
We wrote a blog post on this recently, in fact:
http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/security-and-the-nasu...
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Does anyone worry about the built-in Law Enforcement Access systems that the cloud services have? Bruce Schneier wrote an essay ( http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hackin... ) describing why that was bad and how it played into the Chinese hack of gmail. I hate to be a wet blanket, but just can't help to wonder, how many people stop and think of their privacy and the privacy of their corporate data…
In the case of Nasuni and the Filer product; we have thought about this. All data is encrypted using your encryption keys, before being stored in the cloud. You're perfectly right to be concerned though. Storing your data in the cloud, in the clear does open you to risk, which is one of the reasons cloud storage has not "taken off" for businesses in general, and why we do so much work to encrypt and protect all data…
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the case of Nasuni and the Filer product; we have thought about this. All data is encrypted using your encryption keys, before being stored in the cloud. You're perfectly right to be concerned though. Storing your data in the cloud, in the clear does open you to risk, which is one of the reasons cloud storage has not "taken off" for businesses in general, and why we do so much work to encrypt and protect all data…
Oh! Another question (and I'm not trying to be a dick; I'm just really curious - data storage/retrieval in the cloud solves 1,000 other problems): how's Nasuni different than Cleversafe? Cleversafe runs their own data centers, I believe, but other than that, it seems similar: http://www.cleversafe.com/
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 p…