It's all very well saying sysadmins must be this and that, the truth is most are at the mercy of IT Directors or whoever else and don't necessarily make decisions based on business needs.
Lost count of the number of times I've heard variations of we need to move to the cloud from the higher ups, followed by OK, what do you want to migrate and what business requirements will be fulfilled by moving.
Usually there isn't a (coherent) answer, as the higher ups don't want to say we read it online and it sounded good.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
