Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 17:45:04 +0200 From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Cloud" software ? Message-ID: <4FBFA900.50709@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <4FBFA17A.7010906@esiee.fr> References: <4FBF3EA9.2000103@esiee.fr> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205251514330.22501@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4FBF8F38.9070300@qeng-ho.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205251602350.22852@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4FBF9356.7040504@esiee.fr> <4FBF9BDF.4020208@qeng-ho.org> <4FBFA17A.7010906@esiee.fr>
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Hi! On 25.05.2012 17:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: > 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 ...) Well, this should reduce the cloud to an sftp-server or - if their stuff isn't security sensitive to an ftp-server. Greetings Uli. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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