I'm looking into adding a cloud to one of my servers.
Criteria: security accessible via Windoze, Android Mobile Devices, iPhones, iPads, Macs Preferably something living under one of the better repos, such as epel An active project doing updates and adding features.
I don't suppose any of you have ideas for this? ;)
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'.
John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
I don't understand how ANYTHING you do on a single server could be called 'cloudy'.
Well, if it catches fire and produces lots of white smoke ...
Le 08/03/12 03:32, Devin Reade a écrit :
John R Piercepierce@hogranch.com wrote:
I don't understand how ANYTHING you do on a single server could be called 'cloudy'.
Well, if it catches fire and produces lots of white smoke ...
AHaha this, sir, is the best cloud definition I heard in the intarweb 2.1
For the OP look at http://owncloud.org/ (not in any repo last time I've checked)
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 3/7/2012 9:32 PM, Devin Reade wrote:
John R Piercepierce@hogranch.com wrote:
I don't understand how ANYTHING you do on a single server could be called 'cloudy'.
Well, if it catches fire and produces lots of white smoke ...
ROFL
on 3/8/2012 1:44 AM Jonathan Vomacka spake the following:
On 3/7/2012 9:32 PM, Devin Reade wrote:
John R Piercepierce@hogranch.com wrote:
I don't understand how ANYTHING you do on a single server could be called 'cloudy'.
Well, if it catches fire and produces lots of white smoke ...
ROFL
When you let all the magic smoke out of a server it will usually stop working... ;)
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:37:45 PM Scott Silva wrote:
on 3/8/2012 1:44 AM Jonathan Vomacka spake the following:
ROFL
When you let all the magic smoke out of a server it will usually stop working... ;)
I try to procure ones with redundant magic smoke bottles.
Seriously, though, I have had one server, an old Compaq ProLiant, that let loose a prodigious amount of smoke one day, and kept running. For a while, at least, until I could get it shutdown safely. It was a large resistor in one of the two power supplies that let go, and fortunately it didn't cause other failures. I've seen similar failures with some Cisco catalyst switches with redundant power; actually have smoke boiling out but kept on running.
Now, on a scarier note, I have had redundant UPS battery packs give it up, and not even throw an alarm, but fill the room with the distinctive aroma of hydrogen sulfide. I have hydrogen alarms available, but has anyone seen an H2S alarm?
on 3/8/2012 9:59 AM Lamar Owen spake the following:
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:37:45 PM Scott Silva wrote:
on 3/8/2012 1:44 AM Jonathan Vomacka spake the following:
ROFL
When you let all the magic smoke out of a server it will usually stop working... ;)
I try to procure ones with redundant magic smoke bottles.
Seriously, though, I have had one server, an old Compaq ProLiant, that let loose a prodigious amount of smoke one day, and kept running. For a while, at least, until I could get it shutdown safely. It was a large resistor in one of the two power supplies that let go, and fortunately it didn't cause other failures. I've seen similar failures with some Cisco catalyst switches with redundant power; actually have smoke boiling out but kept on running.
Now, on a scarier note, I have had redundant UPS battery packs give it up, and not even throw an alarm, but fill the room with the distinctive aroma of hydrogen sulfide. I have hydrogen alarms available, but has anyone seen an H2S alarm?
http://www.allgasdetectors.com/hydrogensulfidedetectors.shtml
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 01:38:33 PM Scott Silva wrote:
on 3/8/2012 9:59 AM Lamar Owen spake the following:
I have hydrogen alarms available, but has anyone seen an H2S alarm?
http://www.allgasdetectors.com/hydrogensulfidedetectors.shtml
You know, it was about thirty seconds after I hit send that I remembered a particular un-aired (but on the web) video segment from Mythbusters....
Thanks for the pointers! As we have four relatively large off-grid solar-powered telescope systems, having an H2S detector near the batteries would be a good thing, and I hadn't made the connection to the hand-held unit featured in said Mythbusters online minimyth.
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.
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:29 PM, John Hinton webmaster@ew3d.com wrote:
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.
You can do traditional shared files over a VPN across sites. You might look at ClearOS as a starting point for that and an imap server that everything should be able to access. It is going to be hard to beat google for online apps, though - or even a good webmail interface.
On Mar 8, 2012, at 12:29 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 must be getting old because I vaguely recall these things being called workgroup collaboration software.
Check out...
- horde/imp/kronolith/etc. http://www.horde.org
- alfresco - http://www.alfresco.com
and of course just google open source groupware to get a whole lot of choices
Craig
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Craig White craig.white@ttiltd.com wrote:
I have so far found eyeOS and am also looking at ownCloud. Thanks Devin for that link.
I must be getting old because I vaguely recall these things being called workgroup collaboration software.
Check out...
horde/imp/kronolith/etc. http://www.horde.org
alfresco - http://www.alfresco.com
and of course just google open source groupware to get a whole lot of choices
The new twist is that they need to work from phones and tablets. So, you need clients on those platforms (gmail/calendar is tuned for google on android...) or everything has to run in a browser. But you probably want real calendar support with notifications...
On Mar 8, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Craig White craig.white@ttiltd.com wrote:
I have so far found eyeOS and am also looking at ownCloud. Thanks Devin for that link.
I must be getting old because I vaguely recall these things being called workgroup collaboration software.
Check out...
horde/imp/kronolith/etc. http://www.horde.org
alfresco - http://www.alfresco.com
and of course just google open source groupware to get a whole lot of choices
The new twist is that they need to work from phones and tablets. So, you need clients on those platforms (gmail/calendar is tuned for google on android...) or everything has to run in a browser. But you probably want real calendar support with notifications...
---- horde/imp/etc. has caldav/ical support and works fine w/ mobile devices.
While Alfresco doesn't have the bits about calendar integration, that's easily obtained from davical.
Device integration for things like calendars isn't that difficult but the lack of standards on for address books can be a real issue for things like the smartphones which allow a lot of telephone numbers per contact, and vary in mapping every day fields such as home addresses. Even Gmail doesn't completely solve it but handles the simple users rather easily.
Craig
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Craig White craig.white@ttiltd.com wrote:
The new twist is that they need to work from phones and tablets. So, you need clients on those platforms (gmail/calendar is tuned for google on android...) or everything has to run in a browser. But you probably want real calendar support with notifications...
horde/imp/etc. has caldav/ical support and works fine w/ mobile devices.
How do you get them to sync with arbitrary sources? My android phone has its own calendar and merges things from the company exchange server and my google calendar, but I don't know how you would add another caldav source. And I though ical was a file-level transport where you would have to view the item containing it on the device where you want the notification.
On Mar 9, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Craig White craig.white@ttiltd.com wrote:
The new twist is that they need to work from phones and tablets. So, you need clients on those platforms (gmail/calendar is tuned for google on android...) or everything has to run in a browser. But you probably want real calendar support with notifications...
horde/imp/etc. has caldav/ical support and works fine w/ mobile devices.
How do you get them to sync with arbitrary sources? My android phone has its own calendar and merges things from the company exchange server and my google calendar, but I don't know how you would add another caldav source. And I though ical was a file-level transport where you would have to view the item containing it on the device where you want the notification.
---- Probably less arbitrary than you think because a calendar is essentially a URL and the mobile devices generally know what to do with them.
Horde/Turba/Kronolith
horde can use ActiveSync
http://wiki.horde.org/ActiveSync
Davical
http://davical.org/clients.php
both can handle sync of Calendars & Address Books
Craig
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Craig White craig.white@ttiltd.com wrote:
How do you get them to sync with arbitrary sources? My android phone has its own calendar and merges things from the company exchange server and my google calendar, but I don't know how you would add another caldav source. And I though ical was a file-level transport where you would have to view the item containing it on the device where you want the notification.
Probably less arbitrary than you think because a calendar is essentially a URL and the mobile devices generally know what to do with them.
I just haven't seen enough mobile devices/apps to know what is generic. On my android, it was tied into the email account setup and exchange was a special case. And google seems to be a special case as well, but there is a separate app for gmail.
On Mar 9, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Craig White craig.white@ttiltd.com wrote:
How do you get them to sync with arbitrary sources? My android phone has its own calendar and merges things from the company exchange server and my google calendar, but I don't know how you would add another caldav source. And I though ical was a file-level transport where you would have to view the item containing it on the device where you want the notification.
Probably less arbitrary than you think because a calendar is essentially a URL and the mobile devices generally know what to do with them.
I just haven't seen enough mobile devices/apps to know what is generic. On my android, it was tied into the email account setup and exchange was a special case. And google seems to be a special case as well, but there is a separate app for gmail.
---- in general, you would feed the same URL to an android device that you would give to iCal, Outlook, Evolution, etc.
wrt an android device...
Gmail - that's integrated into System => Accounts and you set up a Gmail account and it links Contacts & Calendars as well as mail though you can turn off the 'sync' for those services.
Exchange - that's integrated into 'Corporate Sync' which actually handles basically all other e-mail/calendar/contact accounts
Craig
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Craig White craig.white@ttiltd.com wrote:
in general, you would feed the same URL to an android device that you would give to iCal, Outlook, Evolution, etc.
But where do you enter a URL related to calendars?
wrt an android device...
Gmail - that's integrated into System => Accounts and you set up a Gmail account and it links Contacts & Calendars as well as mail though you can turn off the 'sync' for those services.
Exchange - that's integrated into 'Corporate Sync' which actually handles basically all other e-mail/calendar/contact accounts
Under 'settings', I have accounts and sync, where I can add exchange/activesync, facebook, flickr, google, yahoo and a few other things, but I don't see an arbitrary type entry. I can add an account in email, and gmail and yahoo have their own apps, but it isn't clear that those would add a webdav type calendar sync.
On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Craig White craig.white@ttiltd.com wrote:
in general, you would feed the same URL to an android device that you would give to iCal, Outlook, Evolution, etc.
But where do you enter a URL related to calendars?
wrt an android device...
Gmail - that's integrated into System => Accounts and you set up a Gmail account and it links Contacts & Calendars as well as mail though you can turn off the 'sync' for those services.
Exchange - that's integrated into 'Corporate Sync' which actually handles basically all other e-mail/calendar/contact accounts
Under 'settings', I have accounts and sync, where I can add exchange/activesync, facebook, flickr, google, yahoo and a few other things, but I don't see an arbitrary type entry. I can add an account in email, and gmail and yahoo have their own apps, but it isn't clear that those would add a webdav type calendar sync.
---- apparently not a standard android feature but you can search caldav in market (now 'play' I guess) and you will see several clients which will add the sync feature.
I gather you can add 3rd party calendar programs that will do this too.
Craig
On Mar 8, 2012, at 2:29 PM, John Hinton webmaster@ew3d.com wrote:
Perhaps the definition of cloud has gone lower and should be called "fog" now?
Totally, it has been taken way out of context and blown completely out of proportion.
Cloud, is what is depicted as a cloud on the topology diagram. It is a black-box service where data is sent to it and returned from it without having to know how it's handled in between.
It can be anything and everything. From communication services, to application services to gift wrapping.
Problem is when your in a highly regulated environment, you definitely need to know how it's handled in between and that agencies are monitoring and assuring it's done properly. You also want to know that these clouds won't disappear overnight leaving you scratching your head. The majority of cloud services these days just aren't there yet, hell they're still trying to figure out SLAs.
-Ross
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
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:06 PM, John Hinton webmaster@ew3d.com wrote:
I'm looking into adding a cloud to one of my servers.
Criteria: security accessible via Windoze, Android Mobile Devices, iPhones, iPads, Macs Preferably something living under one of the better repos, such as epel An active project doing updates and adding features.
I don't suppose any of you have ideas for this? ;)
A cloud of what? Web services? That's still pretty generic. For personal access to a small number of things I just send them to my gmail account which works from anything with a browser.
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