Posts by Peter-Waterman1 203 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Aug 2019
This - I mean there are so many penalties that Microsoft hit their customers with if they try to move their workloads to anywhere but Azure.
A 40% tax on the windows and SQL license if you move to another cloud, but not Azure
Elimination of Bring your own license, except Azure
Unlimited SQL Virtualisation in Azure, but no where else
180 days of simultaneous on-premises and Azure use during migration but no where else
No dev/test (msdn) on other clod providers, but ok in Azure
Customers wanting to use any other cloud than Azure have to effectively give up all their Windows and SQL licenses and buy them all again, which can cost millions. Its outrageous that its taken seven years for the CMA to act.
While using an LLM to spit out text, I don’t see too much of a challenge, but we are moving towards an era when LLMs drive software, and I guess that becomes more of an issue if you can start making the models carry out specific crafted commands based on a keyword. Let’s not let LLMs get control of the nukes just yet.
I remember all the shit posting from the Microsoft fan boys back in the “Cloud wars” days. They kept on ranting on how “Azure is growing faster than AWS” and how “AWS is for startups”, and all that crap. Here we are nearly 20 years after it all started and Microsoft are still way behind. And now everyone is like cloud is old news, it’s all about AI baby!
Seeing a few use cases where people are using an LLM to provide an idea, then to take the answer and pass to another chat to generate reasons why that idea is bad, and then take both sets of reasoning and pass on to a persona as a judge. You could use different LLM models or the same asking it to take on different roles. Seems to help provide some balance.
How would you enforce no exit fees on Netflix? They use AWS and I’m sure they would be delighted to have no fees to pay for data out. Not sure exit fees is the right thing to focus on, otherwise it’s free internet bandwidth no?
Maybe they could focus on specific type of network traffic out? Replicated VMs or containers so that you have some portability?
5 nines has long been a gold standard for high-availability systems. But dont conflate design intent with real-world practicality and cost-efficiency.
S3’s design availability of 99.99% reflects the reality of running at massive scale, with global durability and geographic redundancy built in. That's something even the best on-premises solutions struggle to match without significant investment in infrastructure, personnel, and failover mechanisms. And that’s before considering patching, upgrades, hardware failures, and human error—all handled automatically or abstracted away in S3. Yes, the service credits may not feel generous, but the real value is in not needing them. Outages in S3 are rare and typically short-lived—compare that to diagnosing and resolving hardware or software issues in your own data center at 3 a.m.
I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion but I just had Claude Sonnet 3.7 write me a doc every bit as good as I could, maybe that says something about my doc writing! I’m sure ChatGPT could do it as well. It saved me at least five hours and I got my doc out in a morning rather than taking a few days. I'm now turbo charged in productivity. Seems very helpful to me. Hit me with them down votes!
I remember Larry going on stage at Oracle world some years back, it’s on you tube, and the dude literally spends 10 minutes attacking AWS security. Talking about how Oracle cloud 2.0 was vastly superior yada yada yada.
Why he was using his keynote to give airtime about AWS I don't know, but its kind of ironic rhat a few years later it turns out their security is crap.
The argument you put forward is don’t use Windows. In reality, an old, but critical application running on .Net must run on windows. There are millions of these applications out there and trying to make them run on Linux requires investment and time, both of which companies don’t have for these applications.
Your argument is flawed sir.
It looks like it uses the vehicle's onboard power systems, presumably diesel. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/serkan-k-b4b841a8_laser-air-defense-activity-7221442716847509504-t7JM/
"Power and Thermal Management:
- Integrated Power Supply: The system is designed to draw power from the vehicle’s onboard power supply, with additional provisions for dedicated power sources to ensure sustained operation."
Right… but then this article is essentially about securing your data correctly. The way the world is going, this should be the #1 priority. Once you have good control over your data, you should be able to use other people’s software without constantly worrying about your data security.
I love the LLMs. They are going to revolutionise the way we interact with information forever. But can’t they build mini nuclear plants rather than using gas? Seems like building more fossil powered stations is going the wrong way. Maybe the tech is not ready for prime time yet but I remember reading about a few companies developing mini plants.
I think you are right—I hadn't really thought about that, but I guess that's why they created it in the first place; it makes total sense. Still, it seems like they (Dell/HP et al.) really failed to respond in any meaningful way. Their growth has stagnated. HP revenue was 29.14B in 2019, and the same five years later. Almost the same with Dell. Feels like they lack vision
I was working at Dell back in 2012, and remember thinking Cloud seems to be a thing, and why, given Dell manufacturers servers, aren’t they building their cloud to compete. The commentary within Dell was around Cloud was too expensive, customers trying it and “repatriating” workloads back on prem and generally putting fingers in ears and saying Cloud wouldn’t take off. HP did try to create Cloud, but it just didn’t really get anywhere and they killed it off.
Seems like they both missed the boat and couldn’t recognise the threat to their business models, or were too unwieldy to respond. It now seems they will suffer from a slow decline and eventual death or consultation, selling of parts of the business that can’t withstand the competition. Kind of reminds me of Blockbusters or BlackBerry. But what is perplexing to me, is the meteoric rise of Dells share price, which doesn’t seem to reflect revenue stagnation and now decline.
Windows market share (server) has been declining year on year for a while now, with the primary reason that companies have been slowly moving to containers, and serverless, both of which run on Linux. I mean, it is technically possible to run Windows containers, but I think it's well-established that Linux is the way to go.
From what I read and widely speculated, cause that's fun to do, it seems like Crowndstrike released a dodgy update, and Microsoft rolled it out to production without testing probably and borked Azure. If that's true, there are so many questions, like why Microsoft is deploying things globally, or if you deployed it locally and borked something, why does it have a global effect - ie, WW dependency on some service - AD cough cough. But it is all speculation, but that's what we are here for right....now where is my pitch fork
What utter rubbish. You can take a LLM run it offline, in your data Center behind your network firewall preventing any data getting out or back to the LLM provider.
And if you look at an LLM like claud or gpt, it’s been trained on publicly available data so unless you leave your company data exposed to the internet you should be safe.
Now, if you start sending data to an LLM owned by someone else, over the internet, privacy isn’t the issue it’s the user.
It's about time. The rabbit effect is terrible. Kids are getting content pushed to them without asking; of course, they will watch it, so the force-feeding is amplified. It's disgraceful, and frankly, I hope they get taken to the cleaners. He says as he goes back to Facebook to watch a bunch of car crashes, knockouts, and ladies in lycra.
