Posts by A Non e-mouse 3275 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jan 2010
Each has their use case:
For bursty workloads, cloud is probably a more cost effective solution.
For constant load tasks, on-prem is probably more cost effective.
I think the "word on the street" is that companies need a mix of solutions in their pocket because there isn't one ring to rule them all.
Whilst I'm excited that so many companies are trying to enter the launch market, it's inevitable that many of them will fail (financially) as there's just not enough demand for all of them right now. (SpaceX's ride-share program isn't helping the low-end of the market either)
Reminds me of the railway mainia in the UK in the 19th century.
EMail is no longer just a simple RFC822 plain text protocol. There are lots of other things going on nowadays.
Lots of people criticise me for used, shock horror, a paid for, email service when I could easily run my own email server. (Been there, done that) Life it too short to deal with all the haslle of running a server under constant attack by ner-do-wells. Paying someone a small fee to do it for me just makes so much sense.
Companies frequently put scary sounding rubbish in their T&Cs to scare the little people (aka consumer). Fortunately, in the UK, we have a couple of things on our side: Firstly, it's impossible to sign away your legal rights; Second: A court can invalidate (parts of) a contract if they think it's unfair.
(This is in the context of company Vs consumer. Company Vs Company is a different ballgame)
I'm really torn as to which way to vote:
If I vote "Remain", I'll enjoy watching Elon being as crazy as ever, seeTwitter go down and laugh at Elon and his accomplices for having wasted $44bn.
If I vote "Leave", there's a chance that Twitter might survive. (Yeah, I know it's full of twits, but there are small corners of sanity in there)
I'm a techie who's starting to move more into management and away from the coal face of coding, building & fixing things.
If you think your skills of problem solving and logical reasoning are going to see you do well iin management then think again. Management is all about the three Ps: People, Politics & Pride. Not an ounce of logic or common sense in sight.
If you think management decisions that have directly affected you are stupid, wait 'till you see the shitshow of senior management meetings and be grateful for all the hardwork your current line managers puts in shielding you from the crap.
If there is enough to employ one full time employee, it's worth having in-house
And that is why you fail.
What if that one employee goes off ill, or has a holiday? Or what if, $Deity forbid, they quit and all their knowledge disappears with them?
To consider running something in house verses outsourcing, I reckon you need a bare minimum of two staff but preferably three. And don't forget their overheads when working out if insourcing is cheaper: Pension, cost of desk space, equipment, training, etc.
I'm not being paid by an outsourcing company, but people who always assume that "Outsourcing is bad" are just deluded. Like anything in life, there is rarely a standard good answer. Outsourcing has its place, just as insourcing has its place.
I run a team that does a few Exchange on-premise migrations to Office 365 a year. They know their s**t and have a good relationship with MS' Exchange support engineers. I can assure you that no on-premise to cloud migration is easy, simple or quick. If the on-premise Exchange hasn't been well maintained, it can take a week or more of engineering time just to get the system into a good enough state to consider migrating mailboxes. This is for a tiny Exchange system - say less than 100 users. At the scale Rackspace is working, things are a different league. Even if the Exchange is well maintained, it can still take time to prep the system to start migrating mailboxes.
Once your on-premise Exchange is ready and you start migrating mailboxes you'll hit Office 365 rate limiting. This is a real b***h and there are no work arounds: No amount of pleading to Microsoft will get these rate limits raised for the period of your migration. This will be killing Rackspace right now: Hence their suggestion to just forward email.
And let's not forget the features that either don't exist in Office 365 Exchange or work differently or the bits of Exchange data that an official MS migration won't copy to the cloud.
On-premise Exchange's days have been numbered for several years. I bet Rackspace thought they could make money for old rope by sweating a hosted Exchanger service. That "easy money" has just turned into a PR disaster.
I think my opinions echo all the others here: 50+ and I've seen the same shit reguritated in different ways. Fed up of people (users & managers) who treat IT staff like dirt.
If I could find another line of work which paid similar rates (certainly more than the £24/hour they're quoting!) I'd seriously consider jumping ship.
what is the likelihood[1] that it'll result in the comment being removed?
In my experience very rare: In the decacde or more that I've been here, I've reported probably half a dozen posts and I think only one was removed. El Reg have/had quite thick skin. (And no, I haven't reported any comments for this article)
Ok, true, you only get one "this comment..." left visible when the comment and the entire tree of all its replies are zapped by the mod.
Strange. I've seen "This comment has been removed by a moderator" posts and replies still existing.
Beer icon for the moderators having to deal with this s**t.
PS Bring back the Moderatrix.
The [proof-of-work] mining industry has been spurring economic growth, job creation, and inclusion for historically underrepresented populations in New York
How? These places are as bad (or worse) than cloud data centres: 99% of the employment is done remotely and the only local employment is a minimum wage security guard and a dog*.
[*] The dog is to stop the security guard from touching anything.
If only there was a way to specify in which location your Office 365 tenancy resides...
Derek at Veritasium has done two videos on how electricity works. Here's the second: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_X2cMHNe0
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