Avoiding "cloud" as long as possible.
We are under pressure from our owning company to get moved off prem and onto cloud based asap. I'm dragging my feet somewhat.
We did recently moved from Sage on prem to Xero. Guess which cloud provider hosts Xero....
Our MSO that we use for 3rd line support were dead in the water as their monitoring, ticketing and VoIP are all hosted on AWS. Some of our sister companies have custom apps, many of which it seems run on AWS.
We had an urgent heads of IT meeting, where there was a lot of flapping going onm I just stayed muted and carried on working as normal. The overall head of IT at the owning company did ask if I was feeling smug. I just said that accounts are annoyed as they can't access Xero, but apart from that, no not smug as pride comes before a fall.
I just reminded him that there is a few good reasons we haven't moved from on prem and aren't rushing to do it now. It was actually nice to have a quiet day without being bombarded with data export requests etc.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
