40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud Airline reservation technology biz Sabre Corporation has almost completed a mammoth migration to Google Cloud - one that would have tested the nerves of the most steely-eyed IT director. The US-based company disclosed that nearly 90 percent of its workloads are now on Google Cloud and it has closed 17 datacenters. Sabre …
"American Airlines denies it was a computer hack, saying it was just Business as Usual for the airline that has fallen so far in recent years, metaphorically speaking. One airline CEO stated "We have no idea why all of the web sites of these airlines are suddenly unavailable because they have nothing in common. We have nothing to apologize for and anyways the people have gotten wise to that act of fake contrition so what's the point?"
"In other news, the stock price of Sabre Corporation has dropped so much it is approaching the danger zone to being delisted by NASDAQ. On February 18, 2020 SABR was trading at just above $22 per share. SABR stock was trading at $2.75 a few hours ago. SABR denies that their stock price drop has anything to do with an outsourcing program to Google, which was announced in January 2020, stating "We had some unanticipated expenses with the cloud conversion but we expect those to smooth out. We also expect to see some airlines dramatically raise their ticket prices this year."
"some companies are re-evaluating their approach to the cloud after finding that operating with public cloud resources can be just as costly, if not more so, than doing it on-prem or in a colocation set-up."
Primarily because they fail to put the same restraints that had on procurement in the cloud they had with physical kit. They:
1. Give way too many people full admin rights.
2. Allow people to spin up resources with any approval process.
3. Allow people to use way more resources than they need.
4. Don't manage ingress.
If you don't change your cost management to reflect this new environment, your costs will balloon unexpectedly.
I 100% agree, way too many folk try to do a “lift and shift” and shoe horn it in…. just stop it!! Evaluate what your compute and storage needs really are, think about event driven solutions and the concept of message queues. Cloud does not equal Magic Data Centre in the sky… think of it this way…. sure you can buy a Ferrari to do your weekly grocery shop and it will work, but there are way more effective, efficient and cost focused ways to do it that won’t burden you with aging assets and old licence models that cost the earth. And Yes I do work in the Cloud, when done properly it really does run circles around old school Data Centres
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