Have you considered a NAS device on each end that will dynamically sync with
its twin?  I know that higher end devices will allow this and I suspect that
the midrange ones will as well.  I would investigate QNAP as their NAS
devices all tend to use the same software.  Not "cheap" but pretty much just
an upfront cost rather than a monthly fee.  They run about a grand each
empty.  If QNAP won't do it, try something like Synctus but I am sure there
are many others too.

Andy Farnsworth

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Steven S. Critchfield
<[email protected]>wrote:

> 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.
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