Posts by wyatt 562 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Oct 2010
Likewise, think it was ~£30 for Office and Visio for 3 installations. I've also a Hotmail account which gives me limited OneDrive access- yeah it's putting my eggs in the Microsoft basket but there are limited suppliers that do it as well as Microsoft does (not always great, but better than others).
Well, I can see this going one way and that's the workers getting a pay rise without the automation clause their union wants. The owners sound like they're rich enough to sit out any union action, after all, containers will still need shipping after it's finished.
Automation is coming, trying to stop it at all ain't going to work.
The availability of resources seems to be a key limitation to a number of sites currently, maybe this will be negated by locating them where resources are plentiful, if the network latency and resilience is sufficient.
Or maybe people will just stop going on about AI being the next big thing and just do what they need to well.
Ah yes.. I remember a good one. Racked a server in a customer's DC but didn't have the correct colour patch lead.
System got commissioned and went live which was great for a few months.
Customer then decided the colour wasn't acceptable so removed said patch lead, system stopped working funny enough.
I had to go to Monaco for a 10 minute job. Flew reasonably BA and then helicopter transfer from Nice. It was a few days after the Grand Prix so all the advertising boards were still up. I then spent 8 hours in a comms room chasing the customers IT team whilst waiting for a port to be changed to half duplex (yep was a while ago!). Ruined what could have been an awesome jolly.
As a council they're crap. Roads department make stupid decisions that have to be rolled back, IT ones that just don't work, planting trees that are vandalised within hours, unable to sort out equal wages, giving bin collectors an additional paid role that then messed up everyone elses pay.
Hell knows where they'll be in a few years time- bin collections will be the next thing to change, care and social packages none existent, arts are already due to be chopped from the budget.
Before I left the Army I went to a cold place on a comms exercise. The generators were put onto ISO pallets, covered in plastic sheet and shipped over. When the generators were switched on the majority failed to start, having ingested an amount of salt water. This was pointed out before they departed the UK but it wasn't the persons job who was shipping them to make sure they worked on arrival, just to make sure they arrived.
Reminds me of the time I was taking an army vehicle for servicing, going round a corner I heard a loud bang. On return to the garage I had a look in the box body- the enclosure with the Nortel Passport, Switch and a number of other bits was suspended by the fibre connectors not where it should be.
I'd forgotten to secure it before moving, apart from a dent it was fine.
A shame you have to supply your email to view the report but that's life.
Interesting that I go to a number of private DC's and they're well under their capacity- It'd be interesting to work out what the 'cloud' hosting split is between that and a physical DC. There's clearly a point at which Azure and AWS become second choice, I personally think we'll see more moving back to traditional locations like this and the other report is suggesting. Have all the on-prem engineers reskilled?
Any lengthy contract will have a break clause in it. You can try to negotiate one before these points with the landlord, generally it'll cost you though.
Buildings generally come with maintenance liabilities, you can realise a saving in the above costs by not having to pay these, I'm sure the bean counters will have been all over it, whilst keeping away from windows.
Reminds me about the story I once heard about a system that failed.
Supplier got ripped a new one as the customer had purchased a fully redundant with failover/bells/whistles the lot and nothing should ever go down. Turns out the primary had failed a while back and no one noticed until the secondary failed.
Ah yes, the joy of software that runs as an application on a server. Frequently we'd have to support customers who had installed updates (go them!) but failed to complete the process by logging the server back on to the required account. As regulated customers the lack of records could prove expensive..
Meh, this bill is bollocks as anyone who wants to do business with the EU will still have to meet the requirements of the EU GDPR.
So, do you have a 2 tiered system within your business or just crack on as before?
Then you have all the scumbags flogging your data- cheers gov for screwing us again.
Never personally ordered a Uber but have travelled in one, when it finally arrived. I order direct with takeaways and generally collect, I can't see the benefit of the increased cost of someone delivering it. I see the drivers sitting waiting for multiple orders at MacDonald's to make it worthwhile- who wants cold food.
When the Gulf 2 kicked off the military requested a quote for quality fans and filters to stop sand getting into the boxes which contained servers- typically the box would run with the lid off.
Quote was of course refused as it was a lot of money. Not as much however as the cost of cleaning all the kit when it returned full of sand.
The company I work for had a customer in the City of London. Every time something didn't go their way they'd involve their lawyers. As you'd expect, we dropped them as a customer, along with everyone else in the market.
They've recently asked us why we didn't respond to RFP they put out, same people are still in charge- do they think that people don't remember how they behave?
Great having a DC working but there may not be anyone who can connect to it! It'd be interesting to know what the maximum outages are that individual components such as networking nodes/switching kit/ engineers kettles can run for in a scenario such as this.
Without having a crystal weather ball it's impossible to know if this will be an issue, whatever happens my priority will be my family.
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