[vcf-midatlantic] Great vintage computer article.
Dean Notarnicola
dnotarnicola at gmail.com
Wed Apr 19 13:19:31 EDT 2017
Dave,
My argument with "It's just someone else's computer" isn't with that it's
someone else's computer; of course it is. I know you know this, but the
misconception is that cloud is no better than a simple co-lo or hosted
service (until recently, many offerings were no better than that.) There
needs to be elastic, redundant, geographically diverse resources that are
tied together to provide fast, transparent access to services. And as I
previously mentioned, any good strategy goes beyond using a single
provider, because shit happens. This goes beyond simple money saving
excercies (most good cloud deployments DO NOT save money) or resource
constraints, it's about being able to procure a class of service that would
normally be beyond the reach of typical internal IT department.
Dean
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> On 04/19/2017 11:58 AM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>
>> I have to agree with Bill. Given the proper use case, cloud (true cloud,
>> which is not just "someone else's computer", a common misconception) can
>> be
>> an advantage. Moving some of our compute and storage resources to the
>> cloud
>> allows us more agility to react to changes and liberates our limited IT
>> resources to engage in higher value strategic work.
>>
>
> It is in fact "someone else's computer".
>
> Dean, please don't make the mistake of assuming that, because I don't
> use "cloud" services, that I don't know what they are or how they work. I'm
> somewhat embarrassed to say that I was directly involved in some of the
> earliest such efforts in the 1990s, and I'm not exactly out of touch today.
>
> So, in your definition of "true cloud", who exactly owns the computers?
> If your answer isn't "me" or "our company", then my assertion stands.
>
> Based on my (admittedly somewhat combative) reply to Bill, I'd say the
> problem your company has addressed by using cloud services wasn't a lack of
> agility or lack of services, but lack of sufficient IT staff.
>
> I wish you the best of luck with those services, but I think we both
> know what'll happen when one of them goes tits-up without warning.
>
>
> -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
>
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