XenServer Backup
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As far as niche, I think that you are missing something else there. The size of the Xen and XenServer non-cloud market is capped by a few things...
- Lack of backup solutions
- Lack of free and low cost third party solutions
- Lack of extensive, easy to use interfaces
Who solves these problems? You do. Who determines the niche-ness of the Xen market? To quite some degree, you do.
Why does any company not use Xen? Basically the reasons above and/or confusion. Now, confusion takes a huge toll on good products and you cant magically overcome that. But the rest, you can. You have an opportunity to redefine the Xen marketplace.
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Something else to consider (realize this from a guy who strongly believes in the "go big or go home" school of business) is that you could up the ante from supporting Xen Orchestra only to supporting Xen. You could, and this isn't free I realize, create your own Xen distro, that is entirely yours, and provide the entire thing as a package with XO bundled in with support. You could even go so far as to do so with hardware bundled in. And charge for the support of the entire thing.
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@scottalanmiller should be the years of doing this, but I'm not sharing this view anymore. Well, ideally yes, I would like things working like that. But never found someone else with money here agree with that.
Connecting to another hypervisor is totally possible (and even by design), but it will require time AND money (ie: hiring more people)
I have TONS of ideas, (in fact all the ideas you gave here, already got them
). But how the heck I can accomplish this without showing investors they can trust me? I can't tell them "go big or go home". I need to demonstrate the business is viable at least.So one thing after another. Or give me one million $ ^^
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@olivier said:
So one thing after another. Or give me one million $ ^^
In the US we have the opposite problem. Only ask for $1m and they won't take you seriously. They want to see enough money in the bank that you can run without a single dollar in profits for four years.
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@scottalanmiller I wasn't born in the right country so ^^
@anonymous sorry for the AMA...
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@olivier Nothing wrong with an AMA.
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@olivier said:
@scottalanmiller I wasn't born in the right country so ^^
That hinders the connections you have, but not the opportunities. In some ways, it provides more opportunities.
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@olivier have you considered doing a VC Crowdfunded type of thing?
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You'd hit a much larger base of people (who don't need millions sitting in a bank to support you), while still pulling in the needed money to support and grow the business.
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@DustinB3403 the first round was something like that (at our local scale). We are not in a bad/urgent situation either. We "just" got a "limited bandwidth".
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@DustinB3403 said:
@olivier have you considered doing a VC Crowdfunded type of thing?
Not a bad idea.
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@olivier said:
@DustinB3403 the first round was something like that (at our local scale). We are not in a bad/urgent situation either. We "just" got a "limited bandwidth".
So you need developers, but you'll likely only get the developers with capitol to pay them.
Let me know when you start the next VC CFunding operation. I want in.
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@DustinB3403 said:
So you need developers, but you'll likely only get the developers with capitol to pay them.
Generally a requirement
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@DustinB3403 That's roughly the idea yes. Thanks, will do!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
So you need developers, but you'll likely only get the developers with capitol to pay them.
Generally a requirement
The money or the developers?
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@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
So you need developers, but you'll likely only get the developers with capitol to pay them.
Generally a requirement
The money or the developers?
Money to pay developers.
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So @olivier you never answered my question, when does the "Importing" feature get released?
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@DustinB3403 said:
So @olivier you never answered my question, when does the "Importing" feature get released?
Sorry didn't see the question. What do you mean by importing feature?
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The topic I posted the other day about restoring a VM, how there is no indication if the import is completed until the vDisk appears.
You mentioned that the VM name would remain "Importing... <name>" and then get renamed
