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I am always looking to streamline my services and become as efficient as I possibly can when supporting SMB's (and undercutting the competition by thousands if possible.) Personal cloud computing has caught my attention as a way to do away with the complications involved installing and configuring the typical small business for their needs. The following is the standard needs of any small business:
Expensive server running overpriced M$ products to host files, VPN's that take days to setup on both the server closet side and the client side so clients have remote access to files, and god forbid an exchange server for shared calendars, syncing and of course email.
What it really comes down to is data, access to the data, preserving the data, and the management of the lowly and vulnerable end user.
Looking at personal cloud solution like http://tonido.com, I can't help but see this as the future of any small business and the savior of all techs who spend ungodly amounts of time in the trenches configuring the standard archaic SMB setup.
It obviously will not scale well for large businesses who need a full blown AD config to manage thousands of users and multiple sites but for the small business many of us are used to dealing with I think its solid.
Advantages I see:
1. If you've used Teamviewer before, you know how easily software like this busts through firewalls and routers with zero hassles. No need to spend hours at the command line or buried in documentation to allow a service through the edge device. I can't tell you how many strange esoteric routers I've ran across.
2. Backups are practically stored on the synced devices - if a system goes down its just a matter of re syncing. 10 users syncing data means 10 separate backups that can be restored manually or with the cloud software (redundancy?)
3. In the case of Tonido, synced data on the server can show up as mapped drives in explorer. Why did we need that VPN again??
Unlimited data storage compared to standard cloud providers.
Disadvantages I see:
1. Pulling and syncing files remotely requires decent upload speed which atleast where I am is lacking in luster.
2. To save money which is one of the main reasons to take the personal cloud route, this software would be installed on a linux server so managing users on a Windows domain is out of the question. (This may or may not be a bad thing in the end.)
3. Knowing that you won't be getting payed as much because the system you have just implemented is far more efficient and the number of elements that have a chance of failing have been massively reduced.
Your thoughts?
Expensive server running overpriced M$ products to host files, VPN's that take days to setup on both the server closet side and the client side so clients have remote access to files, and god forbid an exchange server for shared calendars, syncing and of course email.
What it really comes down to is data, access to the data, preserving the data, and the management of the lowly and vulnerable end user.
Looking at personal cloud solution like http://tonido.com, I can't help but see this as the future of any small business and the savior of all techs who spend ungodly amounts of time in the trenches configuring the standard archaic SMB setup.
It obviously will not scale well for large businesses who need a full blown AD config to manage thousands of users and multiple sites but for the small business many of us are used to dealing with I think its solid.
Advantages I see:
1. If you've used Teamviewer before, you know how easily software like this busts through firewalls and routers with zero hassles. No need to spend hours at the command line or buried in documentation to allow a service through the edge device. I can't tell you how many strange esoteric routers I've ran across.
2. Backups are practically stored on the synced devices - if a system goes down its just a matter of re syncing. 10 users syncing data means 10 separate backups that can be restored manually or with the cloud software (redundancy?)
3. In the case of Tonido, synced data on the server can show up as mapped drives in explorer. Why did we need that VPN again??
Unlimited data storage compared to standard cloud providers.
Disadvantages I see:
1. Pulling and syncing files remotely requires decent upload speed which atleast where I am is lacking in luster.
2. To save money which is one of the main reasons to take the personal cloud route, this software would be installed on a linux server so managing users on a Windows domain is out of the question. (This may or may not be a bad thing in the end.)
3. Knowing that you won't be getting payed as much because the system you have just implemented is far more efficient and the number of elements that have a chance of failing have been massively reduced.
Your thoughts?
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