[ale] local fileserver to cloud replacement?

[Jim Kinney]

Snark alert

On March 1, 2021 4:02:43 PM EST, Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 03:48:49PM -0500, Brent Laminack via Ale wrote:
>> Our organization wants to move about 3.5Tb of data from a local file
>server
>> (windows server 2012 R2) to a cloud-based solution. We want to use
>OneLogin
>> for SSO and provisioning. What would you recommend? Office
>> 365/Sharepoint/OneDrive? Google Workspaces? Box? Nextcloud? any
>> recommendations or anti-recommendations would be welcome. Thanks,
>
>Questions:
>
> * How many folks need to get to it
> * Using what mechanism(s)
> * Write-once, or more adhoc?
> * Who manages accounts?
> * Privacy (/regulatory) requirements
> * Reliability requirements
> * Bandwidth/performance requirements
> * Budget
>
>In other words, "why are you moving it outside your firewall?"


Because a beancounter read an article about how everything is moving to the cloud and having that on the resume looks good for the next job.

I love that feeling of permanence knowing if I don't pay on time every month it all shuts down. And mounting a filesystem over the interwebs is screaming fast (if the user experience is discounted).
>
> - Solomon

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