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Private cloud server using windows 2008 R2 setup
with all the talk about cloud services We wanted to start building our own private company cloud as a test. The thing is that we want this cloud to work more "drop box" like where the media department can drop in videos and demos from their desktop and then being able to access them when they are at a client from our company cloud
We looked at a lot of white papers but most of them deal with applications, services or self managed servers. There's little information about what we want to do.
While we understand that we may have to setup hyper V, SQL server, and SCVMM what we don't understand is how to get the front end to work more "drop box" like
We looked at a lot of white papers but most of them deal with applications, services or self managed servers. There's little information about what we want to do.
While we understand that we may have to setup hyper V, SQL server, and SCVMM what we don't understand is how to get the front end to work more "drop box" like
I was tasked with this exact same solution and spent many hours looking at options - ran into the same thing you did. I ended up going with Citrix ShareFile Enterprise because it came down to finding someone to 'Home Grow' one or using this, and it is the only solution to synch all of my Users' Home folders on my server to the (ShareFile) Cloud.
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Interesting, so there's literally no way to keep cost down by creating your own front end system natively in win 2008 or win 2012. You have to go with a third party system.
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We did look at azure and drop box but we wanted to keep it In house as management is still new to cloud service and still have hang ups about security.
MS is toying with an in-house Cloud solution for customers and this is only in BETA. You need a ton of licensing and the BETA testing, although available to try, specifically states to NOT use this in a production environment.
I have not read this article in quite some time so it has probably been updated..
http://blogs.technet.com/b /keithmaye r/archive/ 2013/04/01 /build-you r-private- cloud-in-a -month-new -article-s eries.aspx #.Uv5R24Wk 1I0
I have not read this article in quite some time so it has probably been updated..
http://blogs.technet.com/b
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Thanks for all the info
If you want dropbox like services you can use Dropbox or Skydrive Pro. If your looking for something a little bit more. I would go with a Azure hosted VPN to a file server and have everyone make a share drive.
Azure has really good upload and download even over VPN. the bottleneck will be the bandwidth on your end.
Dropbox also does business accounts now
https://www.dropbox.com/business
Sorry for the spellings, im on the train heading home / a few beers in