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This really should be a "duh" for any system administrator. If not, time to find a new job :)
by kevinelliott 16y ago
This really should be a "duh" for any system administrator. If not, time to find a new job :)
- eli 16y agoUnless you work in a large organization, the "system adminstrator" often isn't actually a System Administrator
- kevinelliott 16y agoThat doesn't make sense. The larger the organization, the more often they have large system administrator teams. In fact, most large organizations have compliance requirements, which often map people with proper skills to proper titles and responsibilities in order to get the correct liability protection. I can not imagine Google allowing some junior programmer to setup a little closet and run servers in there without contemplating cost, heat/cooling, network allocation, and priviledge management (i.e. what services are running where, why, and who's managing it). However, the smaller the organization, I can see this happening. 8 man startups without a system administrator... Now that is certainly reality.
- kevinelliott 16y agoI just now realized what you meant... The guy who doesn't really have talent can slip into a larger organization, since his work scope is often narrowed or siloed.
- TomLimoncelli 16y agoThe zillions of little companies with this kind of problem disagree.
- kevinelliott 16y agoIt's truly common sense for anyone that has racked a server to consider heating conditions in a room. If not, they shouldn't be allowed to rack anything!
- spudlyo 16y agoNot really. In the future there will be a whole crop of system administrators who don't ever deal with hardware and data center issues thanks to cloud computing. There will still be plenty to do and plenty to worry about.
- kevinelliott 16y agoIndeed. It'll be smaller teams of hardware architects and administrators. Just like developers today hardly ever touch hardware.