Beep, beep – it's our 2016 buzzword detector. We see you, 'complexity' A new marketing push by legacy tech vendors that I expect will be particularly beloved by old school storage vendors is afoot: prepare for the "complexity" onslaught. The answer to lower total cost of ownership (TCO) claims made by the likes of public cloud or hyperconvergence vendors is going to be money funneled into endless …
As usual you completely forget that without power, cooling and a waterproof roof all your fancy hyperconvoluted Opsy Devy stuff is just a pile of dead, hot, damp scrap.
FacOps is the future! Facilities aligned with Operations at last!!
The next step is Hyperconverged FacOps (where we teach sysadmins how to change a fuse).
I've no idea what that article was about. Far too complex.
I've run the word "complexity" past my inner "Fist Clench Seismograph" and it didn't really register. I think it will have to go some yet, to beat my all-time favourites:
1: Awesome
2: Solutions
3: Reach Out <--- a recent entry into the charts, but climbing fast.
IT managers and project manager types prefer to "leverage" synergy rather than "use" it.
First time an IT manager said "leverage synergies between our groups" to me back in the 90's I started to laugh. Then realized he was serious. It's been a steady downhill slide since then.
While "consumer" drivers do no expect to be able to diagnose and fix their hardware, if you're a car race team you expect to have that skill (and the expertise). You're not going to buy and race with a car you have to call the maker to fix it. Same for communication equipment (and you would be surprised how many repair shops do exist where people cannot easily replace a phone with a newer one, or high-end used models are kept alive...)
So everything is down to "what kind of user are you?"
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Back in the mid 90's I managed to run a 100MHz Pentium, 64MB RAM, SCSI RAID array, Etherlink III cards and Citrix WinFrame all in the same box without ever realising I was "Hyperconverged". Even more astonishingly, the damn thing even worked sans buzzword!
Thankfully your articles have reminded me that whilst that putting processing, storage, networking and virtualisation in the same box is an idea even Babbage probably thought of, a good 14 letter buzzword can make it as fresh, new and exciting as electric orange 24 inch flares (errr...).
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>Complexity is just a way of saying that at some point it's going to stop working suddenly and no one will have a clue how to fix it.
Mostly because we fired all the techies and outsourced to Elbonia. That didn't work but we don't want to pay for the right people so we have to live with this cloud thing and convert all our apps to https - the only thing that works without a firewall change.
It still boggles the mind to that people think unfathomable owa/https is better security than imaps through a firewall.
... seems to fit the bill describing these things, but TBH they always end up sounding antiphrastic. Sorry for causing anyone any pericabobulations by using real words without creating a new definition paradigm first.
I always remember the Dilbert cartoon where he sets the target "To leverage greater synergies across technology platforms". I used that once in one of my annual reviews and it nearly made it through before someone up the line spotted that it was bollocks. Still, he saw the funny side, as he tossed the review sheet back at me.
I swear some of my colleagues think I've had a stroke or some kind of fit in some meetings. Mine is not so much an inner Fist Clench Seismograph®TM as an exterior dentist-enriching, teeth-grinding, eye-twitching, drink snorting that has a scale which runs from Plain English to f-right off.It's rather a binary scale.
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