Posts by palladin9479 3 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Sep 2015
What in house servers? Oh those old things, they were removed right before the IT staff was redundanted. Saved a ton of money that did, they only had to keep one freshly graduated person on staff to go around showing the rest how to use the new cloud based applications. Still looking for a way to get rid of him too.
That's what "moving to the cloud" is really about, saving money by firing as many IT staff people as possible.
Ahh "the cloud" which is just an euphemism for "outsourcing" and downsizing your IT department. There is nothing magical about "the cloud", no mysterious savings from some mystic on the mountain. All the same problems that plagued traditional IT will apply to IT run remotely by faceless unnamed systems engineers / administrators on unseen servers and kit.
Someone once tried to tell me they had a "private cloud" running at their house. I looked at him and replied "so you have a home application server" to which he vehemently denied as though I had told him he wasn't cool.
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