Posts by ManMountain1

ServiceNow thinks you're doing AI fast and wrong

Only someone who works for ServiceNow would downvote this comment, surely.

Jaguar Land Rover supply chain workers must get Covid-style support, says union

To be fair, that's also been a problem for Labour. They very quickly learned that being in opposition is easy, being in Government is hard. Unfortunately a lot of their comms still feel like they are in opposition with an obsession initially with the Tories, and now with Reform. They've got 4 years of relatively secure governing ahead of them and they still spend every waking hour looking over their shoulder.

ServiceNow president leaves after policy breach related to public sector boss hire

Re: Wow, actual consequences at the top

Let's not praise their morals too much. They've still pocketed a $432M deal on the back of promising the customer a job!

AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office

Re: We need a scale of cloud sizes

And a bit like when Labour left a note saying "I'm afraid to tell you there is no money left". Oh and Blair's abuse of PFI, that's been the gift that keeps giving.

Everyone's doing it: PayPal sends 2,000 workers packing

Re: Back to normal?

Not necessarily true but you do need a well devised and data driven process. We unfortunately had to make some people redundant a couple of years ago and went through a very thorough scoring exercise across about 15 attributes / behaviours which was also peer reviewed. One of the people who was made redundant had been the top performer against quota the year before but I am very confident in the process and genuinely think it was fair.

Inadequate IT partly to blame for NHS doctors losing 13.5 million working hours

Re: Confused..

True. I suspect if you asked any profession if they had completely the necessary equipment etc, you'd get more than 11% saying no. It actually sounds quite low. I work for an IT company and that question is the one that always gets a hammering in the annual survey.

AWS says it will cloudify your mainframe workloads

I love the way they use words such as "modernise" which in reality means spending a ton of money and a load of time / effort to run the same application, with the same functionality, but on someone else's computer in the cloud.

Banks talk big cloud game but few have migrated over 30% of apps

Santander recently claimed 80% of workloads were in the cloud but they were classifying on-premises private cloud in that number. I'm sure there is a place for multi-tenant / public cloud for banks but hopefully they are smart enough to keep the really important stuff under their own control!

COVID-19 was a generational opportunity for change at work – and corporate blew it

Anecdotally, it feels like most companies have made some fairly fundamental changes. I know we have. Our offices have been redesigned to be more about collaboration, there doesn't seem to be any pending pressure to drag people into the office for the sake of it and it feels like we will have a genuinely hybrid approach moving forward. I don't know a single person who doesn't like it either ... if people want to be in the office every day they can be, but most people will settle around the 2-3 days a week I reckon. And as others have said, it gives a lot more flexibility in terms of recruitment. I've made 2 hires during the pandemic and whereas I would have been looking exclusively in the south east, I have hired someone living in Scotland and one in the south west.

UK's Labour Party calls for delay to NHS Digital's GP data slurp until patients can be properly informed

"if the NHS were doing R&D, there would be incentive to fix things simply to lower their own costs."

I'm not convinced that the NHS has ever shown itself motivated to lower its' own costs.

Re: They don't make it easy.

"GP practices are funded by the NHS, which is in turn funded from the public purse. That's a very strange definition of a private company!"

By your definition there has been no privatisation of the NHS then as any private companies providing services to the NHS are funded by the NHS and in turn from the public purse. I will add, there hasn't actually been that much, certainly not as much as Labour would have you believe ... but there has been some.

Re: They don't make it easy.

GP's are private companies, sorry to break it to you.

For me, 1 massively over-rules 2. It's incredible to me that this hasn't been done years ago. We should have been analysing the crap out of medical data for years and who knows how many people could have been saved. Privacy is a secondary issue to me, especially given who we already give our data to. This at least has a greater good.

Deloitte settled HPE's Autonomy lawsuit for $45m back in 2016 and agreed to cooperate with US DoJ

Agreed. The most likely scenario here is that a. Lynch is a fraudster AND b. HP was stupid. Whether a trumps b or b trumps a, who knows, but I suspect both statements are true.

Everything you need to know about the HPE v Mike Lynch High Court case

Re: Why so pro-Autonomy?

Yes but the seller is also legally obliged to answer questions about the property truthfully.

Re: HPE - Caveat Emptor

It depends if HPE's lack of due diligence was actually rescued by Lynch committing fraud. Maybe they should have spotted it but not spotting it doesn't excuse the fraud, IF it occurred.

We didn't collude with Twitter to throw Parler off our servers, says AWS in court filing

Re: Yeah sure

It was probably organised on every social media platform. They would find evidence everywhere they chose to look. They're just focusing on certain platforms over others. Twitter is a cesspit too in places.

My uneasiness with this situation is not the fact that AWS banned Parler, they are in their rights to decide who sits on their platform. But what it does highlight is that the cloud providers more than just deciding who sits on their platform, actually decide who exists at all. How many orgs that have gone big on public cloud could survive being thrown off their 'infrastructure' at almost no notice? Pretty much anyone can buy hardware, short of being on a pretty obvious denied parties list, and do what they want with it. The legality of what they do is enforced by the law makers, not the hardware providers. This really highlights the total lack of control companies have with public cloud. You're literally using someone else's computer! If they don't like it (even if it's legal) then they can pull the plug. In the current cancel culture, the reasoning might be fairly vague too.

Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting

There are as many dangerous idiots on Twitter as there are on Parler. The fact that 98 messages (what is that even as a %? Must be tiny) were deemed to illegal is being used as an excuse to shut down a platform that is overwhelming inhabited by 'normal' people who happen to occupy the right (not the far right) of the political spectrum. Most of the stuff on there is the same stuff (and largely the same people as the mass exodus didn't happen, people just ended up on both) that you see on other platforms but it just happens to be more of a right wing echo chamber than the left wing echo chamber that is Twitter.

When humans return to the Moon in '2024', HPE would like us to remember: We built the computer that simmed this

Re: Except that they didn't have anything to do with any of this

No worries. I'm sure we've all skim read something and got the wrong end of the stick at some point.

Re: Except that they didn't have anything to do with any of this

What are you on about? They are talking about the Aitken supercomputer that IS from HPE and is doing the sims NOW. Admittedly it probably originated from Cray but they have an HPE badge on them now. Your post seems like an irrelevant bitter rant.

Samsung throws more frugal followers a bone* with cheaper Galaxy S20 Fanboi Fan Edition

I used to be desperate for the next best new phone every year but now I'm rocking a 2 year old Samsung Note with a smashed screen (which has been smashed for a while). Anything that exciting has been done so the improvements are so minimal to be barely interesting.

UK.gov shakes hands on cloud agreement with 'non-cloud service provider' HPE

Probably the most sense I have read on here for a while - "Cloud first doesn't mean cloud only". Amen.

HPE's Azure Stack Hub future 'in doubt' as US staff canned, SimpliVity team cut, India picks up the pieces

Re: Business as Usual

It literally said in the article that most people had been redeployed and not terminated - the enterprise giant was able to "transition a significant number of those team members, so they were never actually terminated."

HPE's GreenLake remade with fresh set of cloud services as biz starts move to aaS future

Strange conclusion.

Some software went, some cool stuff has been acquired and HPE works with just about anyone.

Services - the outsource went but HPE acquired 2 cloud consultancies.

And the hardware continues to be good.

You sound a bit bitter mate.

UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won't work well, asks for your location, may be illegal

Re: Whats the point then!

Interesting how bias creeps in. The journo says the centralised one probably won't work as well as expected, you say the de-centralised one will probably work better than reported.

Dell to unleash hybrid server/storage boxen that can run virtual machines

"Create a niche" ... sounds just like HPE's dHCI, NetApp's HCI, and some others. Just disaggregated HCI basically.

Rolls-Royce leads data analytics alliance with its sights set on COVID-19 economic recovery

Re: Epidemiological Data

We need the antibody test for that really though. The antigen test will only show who has it right now.

Huawei rotating Chairman: Chinese government will not 'just stand by and watch Huawei be slaughtered'

We're already seeing it in these comments so it will be interesting to see how Huawei are impacted by some significant negative sentiment. Rightly or wrongly, I can see the clamour for them to play less / no part in the UK network only increasing.

Former Autonomy boss Mike Lynch 'submits himself' for arrest in central London

Re: Trade deal - test for the UK government

I bet the report didn't say don't buy them, they're dodgy.

Re: Again, and again, and again...

The "but you should have spotted it" defence doesn't absolve him of wrongdoing

Accounting expert told judge Autonomy was wrong not to disclose hardware sales

Re: Auditors....

"HPE should have spotted it" isn't a defence against the wrong doing of Autonomy ... even if they really should have spotted it.

HPE may as well have stayed at home in bed: Biz turns non-profit as sales fall, costs rise

Sounding bitter there!

Oh good. This'll go well. Amazon's Alexa will offer NHS advice

Alexa is just a glorified search engine. Most of us probably google our symptoms trying to self-diagnose anyway. Not always a good idea but we do. Don't even see why this is news, to be honest. It's just another portal for the health paranoid and whether you type something in, or ask Alexa verbally, they will have your data. If you don't like that, don't ask.

Weak AF array sales at NetApp leave analysts feeling cold

It was 7 racks in your previous post, now it's 6. Hmm.

Re: End of storage coming

You will see almost all companies going hybrid but the cloud reverse claim, in my experience, is largely an urban myth. Many, even large orgs, false started on their cloud journey but are focused on getting it right rather than reversing it. Almost all orgs are in agreement that hybrid will prevail but there is still a cloud first mentality, and it's gathering pace.

So close yet so far: Pure fingers manufacturing balls-up for leaving firm $20m wide of its target

At what point should we expect a start up to begin to make a profit? Pure has been around for a while and losses are growing in line with revenues. Am I missing something?

Cloud giants, enterprise refreshes keep storage market poppin': Global sales up 20% in Q3

Re: WTF, Hybrid?

Agree. if you're not selling hybrid arrays it's because you don't have a good one. They can be a surprisingly hard sell but enlightened customers are saving a fortune. PS. I can sell both but the hybrid is perfectly capable in almost all situations.

Tax the tech giants and ISPs until the bits squeak – Corbyn

Re: Are we expected to ignore all the antisemitism from just the last 2 years

This place is becoming worse than Twitter for spouting this nonsense.

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-antisemitism-political-parties

Do you NVMe? Pure Storage smirks at rivals amid 34% sales surge

Dell could sell a lot more if they were happy to make a loss on every sale! In fact anyone could.

I predict a riot: Amazon UK chief foresees 'civil unrest' for no-deal Brexit

I'm amazed why people think things are suddenly going to be so different. It's like Y2K levels of hysteria again ... planes will drop out of the skies, etc. Sod all happened.

Slow-mo Tintri train-crash continues: Firm shuts up shop across Europe

Re: Violin Systems - REDUX

They were still losing money on May 21st, and at an increasing rate:

"The company reported first-quarter net losses of $64.3 million, or 29 cents a share, compared with net losses of $57.2 million, or 28 cents a share, in the year-ago period."

I'm pretty sure I have heard them say that they have cash for acquisitions though.

Array with you: Hitachi's Vantara begins rip-and-replace rampage

"Hitachi Vantara's VSP is one of three classic big iron arrays; the others being Dell EMC's PowerMax, IBM's DS8000 and Infinidat's Infinibox" ... Infinidat is classic big iron??

Reminds me of Blackadder:

Blackadder:

I leapt on the opportunity to test you. I asked if he'd been to one of the great universities: Oxford, Cambridge, Hull. You failed to spot that only two of those are great universities!

Melchett:

That's right! Oxford's a complete dump!

Dell EMC PowerBricks VMAX... um, yeah, it's called PowerMax now

They went all the way to Vegas for that set of announcements. That is the definition of lipstick on a pig ... VMAX rename and a bit faster, XtremIO cheaper. No wonder they are tanking!

HPE swallows cloud consultancy RedPixie

Re: HP & their cloud message

They do now buddy. Both CTP and RedPixie are top of the tree for those skills.

Re: HP & their cloud message

The future is hybrid. HPE has the skills to help you get there, manage your hybrid supply chain once you're there and provide you with the remaining infrastructure you're going to need. It's not rocket surgery.

From far from good to good from AFA: Flash array floggers jostle for position

This really is a nonsense table. An array is an array - why do we differentiate between AFA, hybrid and non-AFA when they all basically do the same thing, just some do it faster. They're not different markets these days. These are all general purpose storage arrays. Especially puzzling is the way some vendors are broken down by family but others aren't?

Enterprise storage sitrep: The external array party is over

Re: AFA just External - bit moderised

Agreed. External storage is external storage - as a concept. Who cares if it's SATA, SAS, SSD, NVMe, whatever. Diesel, petrol or electric engine, a car is still a car.

Re: Centralized all flash is just an impressively bad idea.

I was literally about the say the same thing!!

As HPE trousers soaring profit, new CEO looks at cost-cutting Next plan and thinks: More of that!

Re: If your only tool is a hammer...

"I believe Q1 is a solid proof point that shows we are doing the right things. But there's still more work to do. We remain focused on executing our strategy, driving HPE Next and continue to introduce innovative products and services our customers are looking for." ... no mention of cost cutting. Poor journalism by The Reg!