Tech gets old pretty fast. One day, you’ve got that new tech smell. The next day, you’re collecting dust in your heat sink.
File servers are no exception.
But what if the core product is sound? When the OS is under license and well understood? When you’ve developed data protection procedures and those are working just fine?
Nobody puts baby in the corner! Don’t abandon your loyal old server (particularly when you actually can’t exit your lease). The answer is to refresh the hardware with new software.
Step 1. Make your file server easier to connect to users
You’re passionate. You like opera. But you’re stuck in the basement baking bread with a fake hand.
Time to get out of the basement. Start talking like a human being.
The whole concept of network shares is archaic. Designed for a different era. Filled with problems. But you still want the nice CPU and storage you bought. You want to use the data that’s already there. You want the local performance.
odrive lets you keep your hardware and your data with a little magic to simplify how you get that resource out to users.
Step 2. Make it easy for users to connect to your file server
You’ve got a good heart. You’ve got good intentions. But people turn away because you spend most of your time blabbing about your problems. And you’re dressed like a savant.
Time for a new attitude. A new wardrobe.
Forget about explaining to normal people how to mount:
smb://archeron.lv-426.storage.yourcompany.com/colonialmarines/training/runfaster
And remounting it. And remounting it again. With a password you made up.
odrive makes it easy to connect to the files you need, and get them whether you’re online or offline, local or remote. All your users have to do is click and install.
Step 3. Make the connection between storage and users faster and better
You’re kinda shy. Maybe you’re the youngest sibling. You’ve never danced on a log or in a lake, even by yourself.
What have you been waiting for?
Forget waiting for your shared drive to “reconnect”, waiting for 100 “network handshakes” a second, and manually copying things from here to there, there to here, there to there.
odrive lets you browse huge amounts of content without filling up your device, lets you sync only the things you care about, and keeps those files updated automatically.
Your file servers have done the dirty work over the years. They still have some mileage left.
Snap out of it, @lonelyservergrl! it’s time to get back out on the scene.
-Leo
@lleung
