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It's a lot easier to pull the plug on on-premise systems.

• bdamm 6y ago
  Is it though? We have plenty of cases of on-prem and in-cloud going down. And we have also plenty of evidence that some companies do actually manage to do disaster recovery pretty well. Not all, of course, usually those that experience frequent disasters.
  • ocdtrekkie 6y ago
    My environment is mostly on-prem, and it's nearly always the cloud services that drop out and leave us high and dry. In fact, not long ago, a cloud service we don't use went down, and it took one of our vendors down, and their cloud service went down, because of an outage with a completely unrelated service we don't use! The cloud is a house of cards that is run by companies that should have disaster recovery down, and really don't even come close. Meanwhile, I can unplug one cable to isolate our site, and everything that isn't a cloud service is pulled offline. (And delightfully, almost all of it would still be independently operational until I plugged it back in, too.)
• hughrr 6y ago
  It’s really not. SME branch office is dead easy. Multinational corporations virtually impossible. In the cloud you can stop your whole VM estate, nuke roles and access and pull an audit trail and access logs for everything in a few minutes. Without even getting off your butt. Or having to negotiate with a branch office IT team who disagree with you. In the 20 or so years I’ve been running ops for corporates, the cloud is the nearest we’ve come to half decent DR and emergency response capability. It has got to the point now where compliance and audit is built in and I can actually write some code here and there rather than arguing about trivial stuff like “what happens if X happens” with people who are only in it for the pension.