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I have no idea, every time someone in the company talks about moving anything to the cloud except our off-site backups and MAYBE a DR plan I cringe hard. The va
by snuxoll 10y ago
I have no idea, every time someone in the company talks about moving anything to the cloud except our off-site backups and MAYBE a DR plan I cringe hard. The vast majority of our infrastructure is fixed, we have a bunch of MSSQL databases, Exchange, AD, Laserfiche, VMWare VDI, our IBM i running our billing software, and a bunch of production application servers. We don't have any benefit to the "flexibility" of the cloud, we rarely spin up new servers as our load is very static, and it's all internal. We have millions of dollars invested in our current IT infrastructure and that is chump change compared to what we'd pay to move to Azure/AWS/Google for no real reason.
Hell, I have physical hardware in my home (a Lenovo TD340 running XenServer and a HP ProLiant ML10 running FreeNAS) for my personal / small project use because for the upfront investment cost me as much as 1 month of the same capacity on the cloud, especially factoring in my 14TB RAW / 7TB available storage sitting in my SA120 enclosure and having 72GB of RAM between them.
The cloud is great for really small things where a $5-20/mo VPS from Linode or DigitalOcean will do you just fine, but once you get past that if you aren't running a small steady-state with the need to burst on-demand it's just a money-pit.