From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 15:13:00 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E27C7106566C for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 15:13:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from f.bonnet@esiee.fr) Received: from hp9.esiee.fr (hp9.esiee.fr [147.215.1.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972358FC08 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 15:13:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.esiee.fr (mail.esiee.fr [147.215.1.3]) by hp9.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE7D214EA510; Fri, 25 May 2012 17:12:58 +0200 (CEST) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.5.2 hp9.esiee.fr CE7D214EA510 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=esiee.fr; s=MAILOUT; t=1337958778; bh=tmAPklaay8/BKeY++4GVg+dj9CtdqPBGRShC/mg0Ons=; h=Date:From:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=bRuDW6KLZhKHHLJlfVLGdqEtpWI7f3TMwxTOcoV7hPMJ3B5IzyLslFrx0SBcM2Qmt ZqBvPb/C/OkFRi3vHKqAkqwzMQ108zxfNIM5It56V6E0DFaErFKhQ8msTOHRHOO0Rt YTacM1nG1i1ouL11NrSlL7137Sb+L07Ux35/vkHY= Received: from mail.esiee.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by VAMS.dummy (Postfix) with SMTP id B33533C4F27; Fri, 25 May 2012 17:12:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [147.215.1.21] (lisa.esiee.fr [147.215.1.21]) by mail.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D77C3C4F16; Fri, 25 May 2012 17:12:58 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4FBFA17A.7010906@esiee.fr> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 17:12:58 +0200 From: Frank Bonnet User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arthur Chance References: <4FBF3EA9.2000103@esiee.fr> <4FBF8F38.9070300@qeng-ho.org> <4FBF9356.7040504@esiee.fr> <4FBF9BDF.4020208@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <4FBF9BDF.4020208@qeng-ho.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Cloud" software ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 15:13:01 -0000 On 05/25/2012 04:49 PM, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 05/25/12 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: >> On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>>> >>>> With apologies to Joni Mitchell: >>>> >>>> I've looked at clouds from both sides now, >>>> From up and down, and still somehow, >>>> It's cloud illusions I recall, >>>> I really don't know clouds, at all. >>>> >>>> Well, someone had to say it. :-) It summarises the marketing hype >>>> perfectly. >>> >>> fashion is quite often deciding factor not just in clothes. Actually >>> it works just the same in IT. What is funny with "cloud computing" >>> (new fashion trend) is that isn't defined at all. most probably >>> marketing people found out that it is not needed to define anything to >>> make people buy....ANYTHING. >> >> Well ... My goal was NOT to start a flame war around the "cloud" term >> ... > > I wasn't flaming, just remarking on the fact that the meaning of > "cloud" depends on the company that is trying to sell you cloud > related products. > >> next time I'll choose better words :-) > > A bit more specific would be useful. > >> we would like to offer to our students and professors >> a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data >> from almost anywhere and with almost any devices > > could be taken to mean anything from WebDAV/Dropbox functionality to > Hadoop type processing or data mining. What sort of and how much > "manipulation" is needed? If you answer that it would let us help you > more. Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not my native language ...)