Posts by Glennda37 21 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Apr 2017
The cloud bit doesn't agreed - it is just a front for the existing for AVD. The on-prem element which is still fairly huge is entirely liked to vSphere and all those cloud providers providing hosted desktop as a service via Horizon and ESXI could be left in the lurch. Other hypervisors would be great though
Having done this migration around 18 months ago for around 5000 users, I'd say do it and don't look back, the "premium" features on the list are actually not very well used across any organization and the cost saving on Webex can be huge and the functionality of Teams is so much better, I don't mind Zoom for VC but Teams has the extra integration with Chat etc.
Also the Teams Meeting room devices - deployed around 150 of those in various formats from Yealink and they have been great.
There is no tax on this - its called use of home, its a pain to work out but its already there
https://www.gov.uk/simpler-income-tax-simplified-expenses/working-from-home
No business rates on houses etc and can potentially reduce insurance costs as they house is left empty less. As long as you are not having customers/visitors to your house.
You talking just about vsphere it isn't their only product and not everybody loves the cloud... you can't sweat your assets is one example (Servers can have a rack life now nearing 7 years comfortably). You can't shift it (as easily) to large capex investments. Not all companies (particularly larger legacy ones) like ongoing opex costs being higher.
You also have the smaller SMB businesses (albeit they tend to use cheaper vmware products like Vsphere essentials etc). Cloud is expensive so them, yes they can easily push email to O365 etc but there is still lots of legacy LOB applications which run on servers in peoples offices. This is just not cost effective for them to move to the cloud.
They will however lose a section of the market but not all of it.
As somebody that runs a small business, it really isn't that had to make tax digital, I used to use a spreadsheet and moved to software. The cost of the software/time invested in doing it really does save so much time in the long run.
I use FreeAgent and it costs me £261/year ex vat, it automatically calculates
VAT
Corporation Tax
Self Assessment (with a few additional inputs)
VAT it calculates itself from the transactions you record, submitting is pressing a button and entering credentials.
It also does:
Payroll
Day to day Accounting, with feeds from the Bank.
I spend probably 1 to 2 hours a month doing the accounts, things like Payroll unless changing staff details is just login and press submit, enter the HMRC credentials and away you go.
But this is an example of just lifting and shifting applications to the cloud. Applications/platforms should be rebuilt/designed in a way that means components can fail, be spread geographically across multiple regions/AZ's. This is the problem with people complaining about the cloud not working, they are trying to use legacy methods in a new platform and it doesn't work. Services should be designed for failure in mind - check out Chaos Monkey developed by Netflix
Wireless can work, but in order for it to work well you need line of sight wireless.
For my area this could work well, our copper is connected via an overhead from a pylon. Connect fibre to/from the green box to the pylon. Line of Sight from each house to the pylon.
I appreciate this won't work everywhere but perhaps a different approach is needed to different areas?
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