Posts by Yoshi

Fujitsu wins flood contract extension despite starring in TV drama about its failures

Re: Historical effects.

Which unions would you recommend for IT workers?

Capita scores £239M contract to manage mega public sector pension scheme

" Capita initially said 4 percent of its servers were accessed but after part of an investigation downgraded this to 0.1 percent"

My best guess, they went to <insert cloud provider here>, spun up a few thousand servers for an hour, recalculated the number and then shut them down. Wunderbar

Get your cheap memory while growing stockpiles push prices low

Where to buy

Haven't had to buy memory etc for a while and thinking it's time to make hay. Is there consensus on the best place to buy these days? I used to just use Crucial

UK Prime Minister wants £800M to spend on big British iron

Or the Department of Science, Innovation, Technology and Horizon. More fitting for HMG

Europe passes sweeping antitrust laws targeting America's Big Tech

Re: Not good

The courts interpret and enforce the law. Who writes the laws? Politicians in most cases

Thatcher-era ICL mainframe fingered for failure to pay out over £1bn in UK pensions

Re: Future events for diary.

It's called out in the BBC article and hinted at here, a large part of the problem is that the rules are very complicated. There is many years of tweaks in legislation layering things on and most the original legislation is old in Gov't years. So much so I'm not convinced anyone 100% understands it. The people who might have are either enjoying retirement or demanding handsome contracting terms (I am sure IR35 is having an impact here but that's for a different thread)

In 2006, Amazon debuted EC2. 15 years on, HashiCorp says firms blowing their cloud budgets is all part of the fun

Re: Amazon Cloud Services are like 'Hotel California'

Not complete nonsense unless you're willing to architect for true multi-cloud and therefore only use the services that are common. Then do a lot of the heavy lifting in running apps and services yourself

Do I use the CSPs k8s offering or run my OpenShift? In one scenario I can move freely to other clouds but I'm carrying the effort to run, manage, patch, support OpenShift

For me, I want to make as much of running the service AWS's problem but accept lock in as a consequence

UK chancellor: Getting back to the altar of corporate dreams (the office) will boost young folks' careers

Fairly certain my private pension, like many others is also heavily positioned against commercial property (I think the Canadian Pension Fund is one of the largest commercial landlords in the world for example) and so it's not just big business who benefit

Red Hat wraps AWS in OpenShift containers for easy consumption

Use the Kubernetes docs, they are much better

DWP building a separate ID tool as Verify can’t cut it, whisper sources

Re: This is a solved problem surely?

And of course you'll be expecting them to do this without creating a database of people/credentials since the country is anti-ID card and this is the same thing through the backdoor according to many a Daily Fail reader. Not sure the banks have that cracked.