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Silicon Valley startups might not think it's a big deal, but being able to run entirely on a private network (either "behind a firewall", or an entirely disconn
by rdl 13y ago
Silicon Valley startups might not think it's a big deal, but being able to run entirely on a private network (either "behind a firewall", or an entirely disconnected network) is pretty huge. Without AeroFS, your choices today kind of suck, especially for 10-500 person companies (or bigger companies where your corporate option sucks or isn't available). Dropbox doesn't work if you care about security. You're left with various forms of SMB crap, more backend-type things like iSCSI, or either blasts from the past (nfs, afs) or science projects (zfs).
- tteam 13y agoYou can checkout our Tonido FileCloud (http://getfilecloud.com http://getfilecloud.com) product. It will allows you to host your own Box.net or Dropbox like solution behind your company firewall.
- cmsdog 13y agoI don't know where you get the idea that there are not good choices for on-premise, file share and sync solutions. There are products like filecloud (http://www.getfilecloud.com http://www.getfilecloud.com) which have been solving this pain very nicely.
- rdl 13y agoOn iOS, even AeroFS kind of sucks, due to some horrible decisions Apple made. Basically every app has to adopt every storage provider's API, and right now, only Dropbox and maybe Box have any takeup. (and iCloud, of course, but iCloud sucks a lot, isn't self-hostable or even enterprise hostable, and is horrible.)
- dublinben 13y agoThat sounds like a problem with iOS, not AeroFS.
- giovannibajo1 13y agoI've been struggling to find a good Dropbox alternative for on premise. Aerofs is missing the option to share a folder/file through a link to non-aerofs-users which is vital to our workflow. This filecloud is interesting, thanks. Any other product that you are aware of? I thought I had found them all, but you never know :)
- yurisagalov 13y agoGiovanni, give me a shout at yuri@aerofs.com -- sharing folders/files through a link is on our roadmap
- sreitshamer 13y agoFilosync (my product) has share via link to non-users (users who don't have the client app installed). http://www.filosync.com http://www.filosync.com (I'm the guy who wrote Arq, the Mac backup app, too).
- giovannibajo1 13y agoThanks, very interesting and looks promising. We're a mixed Linux and Mac shop, so we would need a Linux client as well.
- sreitshamer 13y agoOK. Those are on our to-do list.
- whalesalad 13y agoYeah. We do a lot of security work and have clients inside the Federal government. We run Github inside our firewall. Something like this would be pretty rad, I just emailed it to one of our infrastructure guys.
- rdl 13y agoI'm also trying to get it looked at by some federal customers; if you run into any problems, let me know (I've gone through the DOD ATO process for a Linux-based appliance; civ agencies aren't usually as weird but...).
- objectivefs 13y agoIf you are willing to trust your privacy to strong crypto (something you probably would want to use even on a private network), ObjectiveFS (https://objectivefs.com https://objectivefs.com) might be worth looking into.
- rdl 13y agoYou mean (for an AWS S3 backed system): trust your privacy to an application binary (or, potentially, source which might get audited periodically, and that the toolchain and binary correspond to that...), plus to any OS or application bugs at other layers... Being able to work on a totally disconnected network is different. Maybe if you could support Eucalyptus's S3 or another backing store like that it would be equivalent (and that might be interesting). I'm sure plenty of people are fine with an Internet-connected, AWS S3 backed system, though, especially with additional crypto.
- prostoalex 13y agoBitTorrent Sync? Or the idea of discovery by passing secrets around doesn't really fit small business model.