[dba-Tech] Distributive software

Here is a package that may be very useful. 

It is called BitTorrent Sync and it has a great capability. 

Given: 
1. Deploying large files is difficult through a Cloud drive or DropBox as
you are only given a limited amount of room.
2. Security on product like DropBox is poor to say the least. Only one key
could open all DropBox data directories and would anyone really trust a
Cloud storage area where the hosting company has full access to your data.
3. Data being transferred through the standard methods is not encrypted
unless you did it yourself.
4. Transferring large files, especially numerous times eats up the resources
of the server and the server must stay open until all the files are
transferred. 
5. The methods used by products like DropBox actually end up with a copy of
all the data you have transferred. Not only is this unsecure but the
transfer time to a single member of the network could take twice as long as
it should.

The BitTorrent Sync Solution, of a task to deploy a large product module to
a number of station within a network or across the internet.  
1. It just streams data to all the clients, via direct link, so no extra
storage is required or is there any size limits. This means that something
the size of an entire disk ISO could be easily distributed.
2. Data is key encrypted and deployed directly to each client so excellent
security and only the clients you want to will be able to receive the data.
3. Much faster deployment. In the torrent environment each client is also a
server. As the data gets deployed the task of distributing the data falls to
every client. This means on a large deployment the data transfer speed is
limited only by the limits of the hardware.
4. Once a number or just another client has received a complete set of the
data, the server can shut down its process and then just let the
client-servers handle the rest.

http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html

It seems like this could be a real awesome package with hundreds of usages.

Jim