I wonder if the Bezos Boys will roll their own service now they've seen the competition's innards. It will be announced at Re:Invent with some quirky name and a completely unintelligible license model. Much like most of their products.
Posts by Doogie Howser MD
183 posts • joined 9 Jun 2008
Workday shares slide following claims Amazon ditched company-wide HR system
Capgemini awarded towering £600m deal to run London cops' IT infrastructure
Monday 8th March 2021 18:22 GMT
Pig in a poke
I've seen both monolithic contracts and also the "tower" model, either way, you're never going to get the result you want. The best part of tower arrangements is that the tower owners refuse to speak to each other and/or drag their heels because it might mean them losing money further down the line. Self preservation is the most basic instinct of all.
UK's Manchester University seeks integrator to lead fiddly Oracle Financials upgrade
Wednesday 18th November 2020 10:20 GMT
Cloud not optional
Based on other anecdotal evidence I've seen, MU will be strong armed into going onto OCI whether they really want to or not. Oracle are offering very "competitive" pricing to move stuff into their bit barns, past history would suggest you will be gouged in year 4 at renewal time.
All in all, make sure you know OCI if you're bidding for this.
If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish
Morgan Stanley hit with $60m penalty for failing to properly decommission old kit hosting 'wealth management' data
With so many cloud services dependent on it, Azure Active Directory has become a single point of failure for Microsoft
Wednesday 30th September 2020 10:12 GMT
There's not now and there will never be a perfect solution to this, we live in an imperfect world. Where there is networking, storage, compute and a whole gamut of plumbing from different vendors making it all work, something will break at some stage.
That being said, I remember the last fairly major Azure AD meltdown and it turned out that the bulk of requests went to a Texas DC which fell over. Since then, Microsoft claim to have improved this but remember that underneath the hood, AAD is nothing more than a custom build of ADAM. It's not the same as "conventional" AD and so the usual rules don't apply.
Some people prefer on prem, and that's fine. Some people prefer cloud, that's fine. Pick the appropriate tool for the job, don't just follow dogma.
'Robbery, economic plunder, victim of larcenous cronyism and a heist'
Surprise! Apple launches iOS 14 today, and developers were given just 24 hours' notice
Thursday 17th September 2020 13:19 GMT
Some praise for Apple (gulp)
I consider myself a big cynic of Apple, especially their "magical and revolutionary" schtick, but the main reason I moved to iPhone from Android is what is spelled out in this article - a clear lifespan for a device and regular OS updates. None of this garbage where a carrier has to certify it first and then add their own crapware.
I know we have Android One etc and Nokia kept up to date quite well, but it was still patchy in terms of device support in at timely manner.
Nvidia to acquire Arm for $40bn, promises to keep its licensing business alive
UK national debt hits 1.46 Apples – and weighs as much as 2 billion adult badgers
Monday 24th August 2020 08:43 GMT
So it goes
Well while world leaders continue to over react to a virus that statistically has minimal risk to the man (or woman, or gender fluid) in the street, this is bound to happen. Reverse the lockdown, manage at risk groups (mainly care home residents) and get rid of those virtue signaling, placebo based "face coverings".
'We stopped ransomware' boasts Blackbaud CEO. And by 'stopped' he means 'got insurance to pay off crooks'
How Bude: Google's sole-financed private undersea pipe to make a landing in Cornwall
Microsoft has speedy portable treats for locked-down princes and paupers alike with Surface Book 3 and Surface Go 2
We know what you want to write: Google injects more AI into G Suite
Three UK goes TITSUP*: Down and out for 10 hours and counting
Tesco parking app hauled offline after exposing 10s of millions of Automatic Number Plate Recognition images
Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid rape remarks outcry
Jeff Bezos feels a tap on the shoulder. Ahem, Mr Amazon, care to explain how Capital One's AWS S3 buckets got hacked?
Tuesday 6th August 2019 09:57 GMT
Another grandstanding politician
I've not much time for Bezos but even less for politicians trying to make headlines. For starters, if S3 buckets are the attack vector then firewalls have sod all to do with it, S3 buckets are internet facing by design. Secondly, the instructions are clear on good practice - private by default (which new ones are now anyway) and don't embed secret keys in human readable code.
The other aspect to this story is that from what I can gather, it was an inside job anyway. So regardless of whose computer it was, if you have the keys to the kingdom, you can do what you like.
Microsoft unzips Zipline, lets world+dog have a go with cloudy storage compression tech
Is that rain or tears of frustration on your face? Google Cloud bursts, Console and Dataflow washed away for hours
Fujitsu pitched stalker-y AI that can read your social media posts as solution to Irish border, apparently
Total Inability To Support User Phones: O2 fries, burning data for 32 million Brits
Oracle: Go on, sign off on our exec pay packets. We've changed!
London tipped to lead European data market. Yes, despite Brexit!
x86 marks the spot: Dell reports upswing, keeps mum on going public
Microsoft Azure: It's getting hot in here, so shut down all your cores
Home Office opens AWS cash firehose a little wider with police IT deal
Using Microsoft's Hybrid MDM? Er, not for much longer
Microsoft to pay new bounties for identity services holes
Ticketmaster gatecrash: Gig revelers' personal, payment info glimpsed by support site malware
UK footie fans furious as Sky Broadband goes TITSUP: Total inability to stream unfair penalties
UKFast bit barn yarn: 'Cisco switch glitch' leads to service ditch
UK mobe network Three's profits hit by IT upgrade costs
VMware might just have cracked the container market with NSX
Roses are red, violets are blue, VMware's made a new vSphere for you
STOP! It's dangerous to upgrade to VMware 6.5 alone. Read this
I thought there'd be more Instagram: ICT apprenticeships down 20% in five years
Tuesday 23rd January 2018 15:34 GMT
Re: Perhaps it's the obvious
100%, mate. If the experience of my son is anything to go by, few IT apprenticeships are worth their salt, just cheap labour.
In my day, an apprenticeship with a plumber meant shadowing them as they did work, doing bits and bobs and doing more as you got more competent. Doesn't seem like there's much quality checking (if any) around placements as I assume agencies get their finders fee and fuck the kids (not literally, obvs.)
VMware: Sure, you might run our stuff on bare-metal Azure, but we don't have to like it
Capgemini: We love our 'flexible, flowing' spade
1,000 jobs on the line at BAE Systems' Lancashire plants – reports
Microsoft fixing Windows 10 'stuttering' bugs in Creators Update
Fujitsu's Australian cloud suffers storage crash, outage
Monday 21st August 2017 12:33 GMT
Cloud / Not Cloud
Careful with the terminology here - public cloud and what Fujitsu offer may be somewhat different. In my experience, it's just managed services - i.e. your VMs on their kit and they manage it for you. They don't offer PaaS or SaaS or anything that resembles public cloud, including characteristics such as consumption monitored billing or automation.
If the Aussie barn offers this then great, but don't lump Azure/AWS/GCP et al into the same bracket. They're not the same. And to re-iterate the point, don't keep a local (i.e. single DC) only copy of data that matters, I'd have thought in this day and age it would be obvious.
It's not sales bullshit, it's simple public cloud / managed services design.
Snoop Dogg swerves Glasto, plays Pure Storage gig #keepitreal
OnePlus accused of installing cheat codes for benchmarks with new handset
Hundreds stranded at Manchester Airport due to IT 'glitch'
PayPal peed off about Pandora's 'P' being mistaken for its 'PP'
Cloud computing is bigger than AWS and Azure
As you stare at the dead British Airways website, remember the hundreds of tech staff it laid off
Wednesday 12th April 2017 10:48 GMT
Testing? Err...yeah
I couldn't help but wonder why a "database upgrade" (if indeed it was this) would cause such a profound effect on their website. I mean, even in the world of outsourcing they must have test scripts and maybe even blue/green or A/B environments for test/dev/staging to prod? (I know that might be a stretch).
In my experience, off shore staff do precisely what they're told, when they're told and nothing else. If they're told to click next next finish, they'll do it. Ultimately someone higher up the chain than button bashers should take the blame for a total lack of acceptance testing.
