[ale] off the shelf NAS for school with Linux, Mac and Windoz PCs
Brian Pitts
brian at polibyte.com
Mon Sep 8 11:44:11 EDT 2008
Daniel Howard wrote:
> I looked into those as well, FreeNAS looks really good e.g., but I agree
> with the cost issue and there is also form factor to think of. But
> Jim's comments about IT mentality also play here: an off the shelf
> solution that is perceived as one that anyone can manage and is
> supported, however dismally, will sell better than a system I cobble
> together and offer them to manage. Evidence of the latter is the
> Squid/Dansguardian box William put together to do web filtering at
> Brandon. We showed that it did a better job of filtering than the
> existing solution, was lots cheaper, but the district didn't buy the
> notion until we got an off the shelf box (Securiant, runs the same FOSS
> with a customer GUI web interface). Hence my quest for an off the shelf
> box to start with to make it school-IT-friendly. Daniel
>
I know the OpenFiler devs sell support for the software. I'm surprised
they don't sell some hardware with it installed as well. It seems like a
decent business opportunity.
-Brian
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