[vcf-midatlantic] OT: modern cloud services

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Just my opinion but this sounds like a great topic to discuss at the festivities!!

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On Nov 30, 2018, at 2:23 PM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

>> No. Dude ... do you understand how big cloud computing is? Gartner found
>> that it was a $260 BILLION industry in 2017.
>> For emphasis: TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY BILLION DOLLARS.
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> Indeed. Also, when it comes to skillsets at my prior employer one of the managers said it was more difficult to hire people as we didn't use cloud stuff much. Potential candidates look at the skillsets they will gain and maintain. AWS (and I suppose GCP and Azure) are hot, pick up the skills if possible!
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> AWS is so crazy big it's not funny. What they offer is crazy powerful. Companies like IBM are dust. AWS has their own silicon in production now that sits next to the Intel CPUs for a bunch of crazy customized support. So each virtual machine sees it's own NVME storage but that is really tied to a SAN outside of the silicon to NVME over IP or whatever. Way more isolation than relying on VMs.
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> In my research on AWS Glacier it appears they use special hard drives that spin at lower speeds, and then power down the disks when full? The disks are connected to custom multiplexors. But there might be optical or tape in the mix somehow? Another service that makes me wonder how they do it.
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