Posts by K 1568 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Apr 2007
The target audience for this is the fanboi, people who don't want the inconvenience of shopping around, or people who think its cool cause they spent so much money!
Seriously, my advise is shop around, you can get amazing deals on SSD's these days. I recently brought a 750GB Samsung 840 Evo (great drives) for £260 from eBay (New and still boxed).
@Denarius, Nope I've spent my life in the SME sector, so can't really comment on the multi-nationals.
But I would say this - It doesn't matter who your employer is, if the company doesn't value you, then you are in the wrong job, grab all the benefits you can from your current role, then start searching for the next step on the career ladder. I'm lucky in that I'm a senior member of staff, I control the IT for our company, but I always try to ensure my staff feel valued and well compensated.
Don't kid yourself - the reason most people get a pay rise is due to expense it would cost a company to replace them, this includes any investment in your training. So they will do everything reasonable, including giving you a pay rise and bonus to keep you around! If they don't, then you are in the wrong job.
Training is NOT a one off cost, the company takes a hit for Training, Exam, Certification renewal and then usually staff will receive a pay-rise to go with it (to stop staff taking their shiny new skills elsewhere). Then if you are vendor-locked, you will be screwed even further as the cost for these 4 items is anything from 2-3x more expensive.
Don't get me wrong, I'm pro training, its an important part of a career and shows a company does invest in their staff - I just wish my current employee would have the same attitude!
Been using them myself for the past few months, at $10 per a month for a proper Virtual Machine running on SSD, its a bargain. The service has been rock solid and support is pretty comprehensive. Its missing some of the "shinier" toys offered by Linode (Such as load balancing), but I wouldn't need them anyway.
My g/f is a manager at ASDA, yes they are adding more of these self-service checkouts, but its mainly about foot print rather than staffing levels. In fact staffing numbers have drastically increased in recent year, this is due to most stores now operating home delivery, and click to collect etc. (Which require large numbers of pickers and delivery drivers).
Its a scare tactics...At the end of the day a companies number 1 priority is to create profit, which also includes reducing tax overheads, they will do this by any "legal" means necessary include sabre-rattling and making threats.
It doesn't matter where a companies HQ is based, as long as they pay fair Tax. Its a very self obsessed company who withdraws from a market simply because they don't get their own way.. and to be honest, we're better off without them.
And I don't think the FCC or Judge is being condescending.
The fact is, it would be a stupid ISP that simply blocks content and services, the smarter ones would simply drop things like Netflix to the bottom of the QoS priority list, and/or throttle the bandwidth to these services.
Hence the service would still work, but quality would be absolutely abysmal, yet the same customer can download 5Gb files in minutes - As far as the customer is concerned the connection is working at a reasonable speed, so they will lay the blame with Netflix!
But you are effectively laying the whole blame for this at his feet, he may have been the man-with-the-plan, but Balmer and other Senior Execs at Microsoft need their share of the blame. After all the whole point of having a Management Team is so that it checks and balances it self out.
Trevor your misunderstanding , I'm sure Synology offer superb products and support, nor an I trying to infer their products are bad quality. My point is they are too much of an unknown quantity, for example
Will they have an engineer to my Server room within 4 hours?
When I phone them, I'm instantly put through to a 3rd line engineer?
Do have excellent resolution times?
If so that is amazing and their marketing team should be screaming at the top of their lungs about it..
Great - Can't wait for "YouFilm", where all the latest movies are legally free and I can use a ad-blocker to remove all the crap... but I can live with the occasional unblockable pop-up.
joking aside, your right, the issue is TV companies are monolithic monsters who hate change..
Outsourced IT dept? Somebody still needs to manage the VMs and OS configurations, software, database and even the network linking the VMs. All your doing is moving the hardware off premise - but then you loose complete control to have any impact on outages.
This type of operation is beneficial for some companies who need to scale up and down constantly, but given the clouds selling point of providing an economical platform, this won't cut the mustard for most companies that I work with.
Off topic, has anybody else noticed the barrage of "Cloud is everything" ad's and articles are decreasing? TFFT!
Based upon a calendar month (24 * 30 * 1.20) usage that would cost $864 per month, or $10368 per year ..
Makes me piss myself with laughter when cloud-tards call this "economical" - Let me enlighten you, why not consider a server with 2x 10 Core Xeon CPU's, 192Gb RAM and SSD for about the same money..
I'm no encryption expert, but there certain flaws with this
1) Many of the encryption methods are openly available as open source.
2) Even when a provider "enforces" these conditions, the most I have ever seen is "What country are you from" and "do you agree to export limitations"..
Thats a majorly effective export ban going on there!
Microsoft has already lost a substantial amount of money, allowing the older models to just collect dust serves no purpose, sell them at a ridiculously discounted price would be a good way to build interest, a heathly user base and an eco-system (Just look what happened when HP had their fire sale for the WebOS tablets).
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