Moving data to the "Cloud"

[d_brennen]

What's the email solution? O365+OneDrive?

 

[peter212693]

They already have a hosted exchange solution but its not O365. Dropbox is looking good at the moment but giving them a few options.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

When my boss got all excited about "the cloud" I asked if he wanted public or private - of course the word private got his attention. So I said how about this:

Host it here for speed, and at one of the regional offices for redundancy.

Good idea he said.

We already do that I said.

Hook and sinker. Well explained.

 

[ubern00b]

That's not what you think it is

Was this directed at me? If so can you explain a bit more. We are using it for exactly this purpose.

 

[Caged]

Well it's an SMB file system designed to be shared storage for VMs running in Azure. It's not designed to be accessed via Azure Virtual Network and browsed from on-premise over the Internet. The OP was talking about running SMB over the internet.

 

[ubern00b]

Well it's an SMB file system designed to be shared storage for VMs running in Azure. It's not designed to be accessed via Azure Virtual Network and browsed from on-premise over the Internet. The OP was talking about running SMB over the internet.

However, the guides I posted explain exactly that, SMB from on premise. The Azure Portal even gives you the "net use" command to use. Maybe in its first inception it was designed for what you explain however it appears it has come a long way now and is used for exactly this purpose.

Drawback is that it doesn't have AD integration yet so can't process ACL's but this feature is coming. For the moment it uses its own token method of security.

 

[Caged]

Unless you're using Azure ExpressRoute I still wouldn't use it as a replacement for an on-premise file server, and even that would depend on the types of files involved. SMB performs horrifically once any sort of latency is involved.

If you need a set of files available on-prem and to cloud hosted applications then use DFSR.