On 03/08/2012 01:29 PM, John Hinton wrote: > On 3/7/2012 1:20 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 03/07/12 10:06 AM, John Hinton wrote: >>> I'm looking into adding a cloud to one of my servers. >> what does "a cloud" mean in this context ? >> >> to me, a cloud is a set of homogenous servers running distributed >> applications. classic cloud is google. the term has been degraded >> to also refer to a stack of servers running a virtualization platform >> such that the individual VMs don't care what hardware they are assigned >> to, classic example of a VM cloud is Amazon AWS. >> >> I don't understand how ANYTHING you do on a single server could be >> called 'cloudy'. >> > Perhaps the definition of cloud has gone lower and should be called > "fog" now? > > It seems however that the definition is an online infrastructure which may: > provide applications > provide file storage > calendar > contacts > collaboration > communication > among a number of other things > > and that these services are all available to 'users' on the cloud via: > servers > desktops > laptops > tablets > phones > > As for how many servers? Well that is a matter of how many users you > have, loads, storage capacity and just about anything else a single or > bank of servers might do. > > At the moment, our business has 4 people in four different locations and > we want to better share our work. Seems like file shares are one aspect, > but perhaps some applications, certainly collaboration and I really > don't like putting stuff on Google. I see at least one of these allows > you to run OpenOffice through the browser. I haven't really done a lot > of research into this yet and really all I wanted was some ideas for a > simple open source cloud software that was preferably friendly to CentOS. > > Also, this would be a good exercise in learning a bit more of what is > out there that our clients might wish to use. No, I'm not building a > system where anyone in the world can sign up, nor for a fortune 500 > company, nor even one much smaller. Just for us at the moment, and > perhaps do a bit of sharing to our clients from time to time. > > I have so far found eyeOS and am also looking at ownCloud. Thanks Devin > for that link. I am going to point you to something non-free and very windows based, but it does almost exactly what you want (at least in theory). It is called Go-Global Cloud. There are workgroups workspaces ... windows, linux, and phone clients ... and it can use LDAP authentication as well as active directory. http://www.graphon.com/products-and-solutions/go-global-cloud
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