Posts by steviesteveo 39 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2010
"However, the rapid rise in the cost of electricity post-pandemic, coupled with the rising cost of skilled IT staff, put cloud delivery under new cost pressures *that had to be passed on*, from hyperscalers to platform provider, from platform provider to software provider, and finally from software providers to clients."
That Gartner quotes absolutely nails why this is now wobbling - AWS etc just couldn't possibly absorb any increased costs whatsoever
Especially when the problem is an infrastructure one - we don't actually need the vendor to fix our crowdstrike installs. *We* have to go through all our end points in safe mode to fix your mess
If crowdstrike offered to help by punching bitlocker keys into corporate machines you'd have to supervise them the whole time anyway
And what incredible volunteers. There can't have been any motivation beyond sheer principle. You have people who will keep a desktop email client working for ten years. Send these people a cake and tell them about your other projects
That's an unexpectedly profound question. On balance I'd say it's a shibboleth. I would wonder what someone's IT experience covered if they hadn't absorbed that one by osmosis. E stands for enterprise so it might also be a small company v big company marker
Enterprise resource planning is just one of these bread and butter concepts that sits in the background and quietly makes the world go round
I think we might find that watching the cloud provider lose all the emails is just as much of a resume updater as doing it yourself
On the other hand, I can't imagine how ruinous doing it properly and having regular backups under your own control would be in data egress fees alone. It seems like a no win situation where, as ever, the best case scenario is no one notices that the line item you keep fighting for just saved the company
> Even on Twitter, that renowned haven of deep analysis and reasoned critical debate, there are people saying "my word the commenters really don't get it, do they?"
Could this perhaps be picking up on a simple text editor with hyperlinks and markdown output but no programming features being more of a Reg *writer* than Reg *reader* thing?
"But what other word should I have used that the English-speaking world would have immediately recognized as quintessentially Russian and female?"
Problem: you don't think your audience understands enough Russian for you to make jokes in a foreign language
Solution: use any word whatsoever, even if it's about grandmothers.
It's hard to outrun someone on a Segway if they have a head start.
This also all assumes that you're starting at exactly the same position as the mall cop with a Segway. It's not the 100m final - the Segway might have to turn around, accelerate and catch up to you at 12.5mph.
I think, given that the Segway takes all its balance cues from the position of the rider, it might actually take an engineering genius to work out how to support you from the Segway.
You can't walk, so does someone follow you around and puts you back on it when you let go? It seems like a retroactive explanation of why you invented a thing to play Segway polo with, to be honest.
A cop reversing a car forward is also known as driving the car. It's a double negative.
He's policeman, not a grammar teacher FFS. So when he writes about what happens he needs to be clear and sticking extra words in where they're not needed is a good way to create ambiguities.
I read they can do about 12 mph so they get you up to about three times as fast as a brisk walk - 2 miles in 10 minutes rather than 30. You can't be that sick or elderly to use one because you still need to be able to stand up and hold on throughout the journey. It's not an electric wheelchair and it's not exercise, it's faster than walking yet not as fast a bike and it's not anything like as fast as a car. It seems to fall into a middle zone that's a bit meh.
On a side note, there's a long standing debate surrounding whether people who do go from 'here' to 'there' as fast as possible on holiday actually do see more than people who walk about instead. Your friends certainly travelled past a whole lot more things than you did but that's not quite the same thing.
Oh yeah? You've seen all these horrible things with your own eyes, have you? Were you watching TV at the time?
If it's in the news it's exceptional enough to make it onto the news. Normal, everyday stuff doesn't get into the press. You don't need to worry about it.
First off, let's be honest here. ISYS's comment "Secondly, you don't virtualise services that require high end performance so sharing resources with all the other clients on a host is not an issue." doesn't tally with what the virtualisation providers advertise. For example, from VMWare's site:
"Run Business Critical Applications with Confidence
Deliver better application performance and availability with less complexity at a lower cost.
Scalability and Performance
With 4x more powerful VM’s, vSphere supports the most resource-intensive applications."
Of course VMWare wants everything you have to run virtualised hardware, that's VMWare's job. Additionally, sharing resources with all the other clients on a host is always an issue. For a start that's why you're supposed to stuff your new servers full of RAM.
I do see that there are pros to virtualisation and certainly in the "longer term" it makes increasing amounts of sense but right now the con does seem to look a lot like "throw out your stuff and buy new stuff". If your current stuff works, great. All the benefits of reduced power use and server space rental *need* to pay for themselves between licence renewals because there's no "it's better now" advantage in virtualisation. It's not supposed to make your server quicker. Your users aren't getting more done because you bought a few new servers and an often surprising number of software licences and that's a massive failing in a technology upgrade.
Spending money solely for the purpose of saving money needs to be done very, very carefully.
You should never forget that all of these trends (why hasn't your business virtualised / switched to Mac / upgraded from XP / let us install and support Linux / gone paperless etc etc) are advertised precisely because someone intends to make money out of you. The companies selling virtualisation software, as companies, don't really care if virtualisation is right for your situation.
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