Make your own cloud storage

[Dos_Box]

Here is an interesting article on The Register on a reprot Oracle has published about how to DIY your own cloud storage: Oracle reveals secret recipe for free DIY storage cloud ? The Register

There are 2 methods apparently:

 

1. Have lots of shiny Oracle kit to do it on or....

2. Using Apache and AjaXplorer

 

How to Build a Web-Based Storage Solution Using Oracle Solaris 11.1

 

 

Anyone care to give it a try?

[Achandler]

Interesting, we have setup a few trials of this type of thing but for nearly free, that's even better.

 

I think I will give it a go next week, I'll have my technician start it tomorrow and see then i'll let you know if we did it and how successful we were.

[cpjitservices]

or use OwnCloud https://owncloud.org/

 

or Novell iFolder.

[TheScarfedOne]

Good spot, and an interesting read too!

[Willott]

From a brief skim, I see no reason you couldn't do this on an Openindianna or OmniOS installation rather than Solaris. I wonder if there's some poking you could do to allow auth against AD and direct to folder based on AD username...

[Domino]

and you couldn't do it with webdav because....?

[sted]

dosent server 2012 have private cloud stuff in it?

[Dos_Box]

and you couldn't do it with webdav because....?

 

I don't have webdav...or even a server in the office to play with

[Domino]

http://static.loneshepherd.org/fry-not-sure.jpg

 

Setting up WebDAV in Windows 7 | Making Windows Easy - All Things Microsoft, Software, and the Web

 

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dynamic DNS

 

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"Cloud" storage

[dhicks]

I don't have webdav...or even a server in the office to play with

 

A Raspberry Pi should do it - even just a basic board with a 32GB SD card would give you a decent amount of storage, comparable to commercial offerings (no RAID, mind), and the rest is simply a case of installing Apache and enabling WebDAV.