wiki:UseCases

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

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

  1. Allmydata, Inc. operating a storage grid on corporately owned servers
  1. groups of friends who want to share backup and file-sharing
  1. system administrators who want to experiment with it for backup
  1. Allmydata, Inc. and its customers operating a storage grid including the

customer's computers

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