Hi All,
My friend works as an IT administrator for a medium size Pharma
company that has 3 offices spread across India and lot of its
employees are mobile.
The company wants him to implement an open source/free enterprise
backup, and recovery solution. They also have some proprietary
analytics software that needs to be fed with the data that has been
generated throughout the day, across all their offices. They host this
proprietary softwares on a local data-center that is accessible from
all their offices. People so far used to upload all the data in the
evening, before leaving for home. But now, since they are expanding
and the data within the organization is growing at a rapid rate, they
want to have a local server sitting on their premise, where employees
from all their offices can upload bulk data (50-100 MB/employee/day).
This system should also enable people who are on move to access this
server sitting on their premise. So he is looking for a system where
people can upload the data at the end of the day and the system, in
turn, uploads this data to their data-center without needing any human
intervention. As data transfer over LAN is fast, people need not wait
long to upload their data.
Employees of this company use Linux, Windows, and Mac operating
systems. So if the solution comes with client software for these
mentioned OS's, it would be cherry on the pie. He need some
suggestions on choosing a smart open source enterprise backup solution
which can solve the said problem and also it would be very helpful if
someone can share his experiences with the security issues in such a
system.
Thanks,
DJ
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