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I agree completely. I consult with multiple customers and they all want cloud. It's "Cloud First" and any discussion to the contrary results in lost business.
by drieddust 8y ago
I agree completely.
I consult with multiple customers and they all want cloud. It's "Cloud First" and any discussion to the contrary results in lost business. If you do that you are considered a Dinosaur.
On the issue of predictable load, most businesses not only have predictable load but a lot of capacity is just allocated and never used. VMware serves such scenarios even better by going for heavy over allocation. Everyone will demand 10 servers with 8vCPU, 64 GB of RAM without actually using even 10% of the allocated capacity.
But hey Cloud is cool so I have to be on it.
- ses1984 8y agoYou can be cloud first and still not squander money on idle resources...
- drieddust 8y agoThat requires culture change and it's hard for big boys with checkbooks.
- scarface74 8y agoIf all you’re doing with AWS is a bunch of EC2 instances - the equivalent of a bunch of VMs - yes you will spend more and not get any operational experiences. That’s like the old school Netops people who got one AWS certificate, did a lift and shift of a bunch of VMs and then proclaimed their client has “moved to the cloud”. The client still has the same amount of staff, same processes, etc. Of course it isn’t going to save any money.
- drieddust 8y agoThat's the reality of it. Any proper move requires longer term planning (> 2 years) and currently CIO themselves don't usually last 2 years. Any project however complex needs to be executed in a quarter which means "Lift and Shift". Sad reality.