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You can get 500TB+ NAS appliances on ebay for 10k. Universities outsourcing this stuff WHILE STILL HAVING IT support staff at the same or higher levels is insan
by sitkack 2y ago
You can get 500TB+ NAS appliances on ebay for 10k. Universities outsourcing this stuff WHILE STILL HAVING IT support staff at the same or higher levels is insane.
Run your own schtuff people! At least when you outsource your supposed core competence, then cull your infra and your staff.
- Dylan16807 2y agoWhy do you assume universities didn't have fewer server admins while Google was actually delivering unlimited? Though one person can manage a lot of storage, and you still need to support all the users. So even if you don't get rid of people, you save a lot of money when you don't need to store petabytes. Moreso with every year you look back.
- sitkack 2y agoI am just getting butt hurt about how universities are wasting so much on administrators of all types while making services worse. Looking at you University of Washington! This is a systemic problem in our civilization right now. IT departments outsource their core competency to a vendor, spending more to deliver less while trumpeting new operational synergies only to have vendor fuck them over again, so instead of paying 2x for less, they are now paying 3.14x for 1.44x more less.
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