[plug] When the mind is willing but suppliers are reluctant ...

[Leon Wright]

Onno,

AWS has a product that might be worth checking out:

https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/details/

Though I don't know if it does per file versioning. They have a Dropbox
like product that does sharing/versioning, but the sync client whilst
improving rapidly I'd be hesitant to suggest for this use case (may not fit
either).

Leon

--
DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:

> I'm looking for ideas.
>
> Client would like to have a file-store that is accessible via the Internet
> for mobile users. They'll be storing both little (Office) and big (VMware
> images) files. Their users have 20 MBit LAN access in the office and 3G/4G
> on the road.
>
> Likely usage patterns:
>
>    - Create VMware image in the office, store on the file-store, download
>    by several engineers before going out into the field.
>    - Store corporate templates and customer config files in the
>    file-store, have local cached copy on their laptops. Synchronise on return.
>    - General office use, mail-merge, office, etc.
>
> Issues:
>
>    - Revision control
>    - Offline cache
>    - Synchronisation
>
> Client has 12 employees today, expected to grow to 100 in 3-4 years.
>
> They currently have a shared (with another company) Windows server that is
> not working for them. VPN access is not great, server control non-existent.
>
> Ideas I'm playing with, but not liking:
>
>    - AWS EFS, not available yet, no versioning, has NTFSv4, unlimited
>    size, great price, ETA is not available.
>    - storagemadeeasy.com - support is clearly not their strong point -
>    still attempting to get answers after a week of trying with 19 emails
>    exchanged. Looks great on paper, versioning, across multiple providers,
>    different sizes, etc.
>    - s3fs - fuse based mount of AWS S3, has versioning, has lots of nice
>    things about it, but no-one has made this into an actual product that I was
>    able to find. Could make this work, build an AWS cluster, share it via CIFS
>    or NTFSv4 and do it myself. Not a fan.
>
> Hit me ... please.
>
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