Heh, sounds like a marketing droid talked to them. Many of the cloud storage options are geared towards object storage. They are mainly a write once, read many type of storage. Mainly because you don't mount them, you request the object and get it. These are used for OS images and such in a cloud setup.
If you need a distributed fileserver, That is a different beast. Sounds dicey if the net goes down you could run into split brain just like amazon did recently. Sorry I don't have better suggestions for you. ----- Original Message ----- > I have a customer who has an office in NYC and an office in LA. Right > now, they have a server in NYC and VPN in order to share with LA. > They'd like to have a "cloud" solution. Does anybody have experience > with file servers online? I think they use primarily Macs, maybe some > Windows. But I'm thinking smb. -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
