v-home
V-home extends main data centre services through to smaller offices and home offices.
V-home provides many of the benefits of v-office, but installs as a light-weight software application on a standard Linux desktop computer. Built on a open-source virtualization platform, v-home can present itself to users as a conventional Windows or Linux file server. Meanwhile, v-home provides remote offices with dynamic local proxies of the main file servers and data volumes in the central data center.
Use Cases
Smaller businesses with less demanding multi-office workloads can deploy v-home systems with one or more active instances in each office. Offices with hierarchical workloads, can use v-home instances in conjunction with v-office clusters to create two-tier data sharing networks. The v-home nodes are suitable to offices with light workloads, while v-office nodes are appropriate to sites with heavier traffic.
Secure Data Sharing
With v-home, end users can easily create their own "virtual pen drives" and share them with colleagues in other sites. As with v-office, data sharing does not require duplication of files. All data cached or stored in remote sites is encrypted and accessible only via permission from the owner. This provides content owners with much better security control.