There are several ways that people might want to use Tahoe:

(This Wiki page was originally inspired by [http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2007-June/000022.html this discussion on the tahoe-dev list])

1.  groups of friends who want to share backup and file-sharing

1.  Allmydata, Inc. operating a storage grid on corporately owned servers

3.  system administrators who want to experiment with it for backup

4.  Allmydata, Inc. and its customers operating a storage grid including the
customer's computers

5.  a large, diverse ecosystem of selfish or mutually suspicious people and organizations who want a storage service with extremely high reliability and availability

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Use Cases
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||sysadmin||2-10||one domain||uniform||uniform||high||low||
more to come...