I saw this in the news this morning:
http://www.besttechie.com/2013/04/23/bittorrent-sync-offers-secure-alternative-to-cloud-storage/
It looks interesting. I am wondering how well it will actually compete
with cloud storage services like Rackspace and Amazon. I have a feeling
it won’t be able to offer something that competes with SaaS, but only
with syncing files across servers in multiple locations, like a dropbox
service.
What isthe open source answer to this technology? And is it actually
better than something like dropbox can offer?
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On Fri, 03 May 2013 00:12:08 +0000, golson765 wrote:
> I saw this in the news this morning:
>
> http://www.besttechie.com/2013/04/23/bittorrent-sync-offers-secure-
alternative-to-cloud-storage/
>
> It looks interesting. I am wondering how well it will actually compete
> with cloud storage services like Rackspace and Amazon. I have a feeling
> it won’t be able to offer something that competes with SaaS, but only
> with syncing files across servers in multiple locations, like a dropbox
> service.
>
> What isthe open source answer to this technology? And is it actually
> better than something like dropbox can offer?
From what I understand (and I’ve been meaning to try it out), it’s
entirely a peer-to-peer solution, with no “cloud” based storage provider
involved. Just your clients.
Jim
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On 05/04/2013 06:52 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>
> From what I understand (and I’ve been meaning to try it out), it’s
> entirely a peer-to-peer solution, with no “cloud” based storage provider
> involved. Just your clients.
>
> Jim
>
Yes, that is what it looks like to me also. I am trying to think of how
this would be a helpful application - I suppose a company that has lots
of shared files, instead of having to have all those files on a server,
would set up p2p sharing in some kind of seamless way, the same way a
cloud might normally work. And I suppose an advantage also in this would
be that you would not have to purchase large amounts of storage from a
cloud service.
However, since so many companies are going to cloud technology (in order
to reduce their IT overhead, so I have read), it seems like this is not
going to make a big impact. For the p2p file sharing to be helpful for a
company with many people accessing shared files over many computers, I
would think that you would need to retain IT staff, not reduce it, and
cloud storage is apparently less expensive than personnel overhead.
I am interested in other people’s thoughts on this. Is there a way that
anyone can see this technology (using p2p for regular file sharing
without a web interface or other user dependent interface) might build
up in demand the way companies are going right now?
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On Sat, 04 May 2013 04:07:31 +0000, golson765 wrote:
> On 05/04/2013 06:52 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>
>> From what I understand (and I’ve been meaning to try it out), it’s
>> entirely a peer-to-peer solution, with no “cloud” based storage
>> provider involved. Just your clients.
>>
>> Jim
>>
> Yes, that is what it looks like to me also. I am trying to think of how
> this would be a helpful application - I suppose a company that has lots
> of shared files, instead of having to have all those files on a server,
> would set up p2p sharing in some kind of seamless way, the same way a
> cloud might normally work. And I suppose an advantage also in this would
> be that you would not have to purchase large amounts of storage from a
> cloud service.
>
> However, since so many companies are going to cloud technology (in order
> to reduce their IT overhead, so I have read), it seems like this is not
> going to make a big impact. For the p2p file sharing to be helpful for a
> company with many people accessing shared files over many computers, I
> would think that you would need to retain IT staff, not reduce it, and
> cloud storage is apparently less expensive than personnel overhead.
>
> I am interested in other people’s thoughts on this. Is there a way that
> anyone can see this technology (using p2p for regular file sharing
> without a web interface or other user dependent interface) might build
> up in demand the way companies are going right now?
Well, I’m self-employed, so something like this could be useful for me -
I have a desktop, server, and a laptop, and being able to use something
like this to automatically back up stuff on my laptop after a client
visit is something that would have significant value to me.
But I don’t know yet how granular the control is for sharing individual
files with additional people.
Jim
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