Run your SMB NAS in the cloud

[edwaleni]

Cool and interesting product from Nasuni. Runs as a VM in Hyper-V, VMWare or Xen. Basically takes a number of cloud storage sites, and presents them to a local network as a single mount.

Encrypts the data, so data theft is reduced.

Amazon, Rackspace, Azure, doesn't matter...it aggregates them all into a single drive. Caching engine overcomes latency.

Interesting concept.

Free Trial. www.nasuni.com

I am giving it a whirl now.

 

[Jesse B]

The only thing I don't like about this whole "cloud" business is the brutally slow upload speeds ISPs give us. Takes too long to upload even a bit of data.

 

[stevech]

some of the cloud storage providers allow you to send them an external disk enclosure. they bulk load this one time to get your dupe built. Due to the low upstream bandwidth.

I would do that only if all the files on that drive were encrypted by me before I mailed it. Not that these services don't have only the most responsible employees!

Seems like too much of a hassle vs. just doing fast local backups automatically and take the disk to work or another site instead of struggling with the low upstream bandwidth.

 

[edwaleni]

Runs great thus far

Gave it a whirl.

Pushed about 400Gb into the service just to see how it would perform.

It essentially caches the files in the VM storage volume and then sets up a diff serve to the cloud space.

BTW: The trial only allows the use of one cloud and that is Amazon's.

The max bit rate for the upload portion appears to be around 500Kbs. The VM puts out a web status page where you can check how much you have in your cloud and how much bandwidth the diff serve is taking up.

The trial says Amazon will accept "unlimited" storage and bandwidth.

Next I am going to push a disk backup image into the cache and see how it handles it.

 

[thiggins]

Thanks for the report, Ed. We'll look into reviewing it on SmallCloudBuilder.