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Posted on 12/8/21 at 6:36 am to Oilfieldbiology
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I’m not an IT expert nor am I even really all that good with computers, but isn’t the cloud simply an internet connected data storage center, essentially servers owned and managed by someone else?
Is the shift to the cloud essentially outsourcing your data management?
Yea that's what it is essentially. Just a fancy buzzword for outsourcing your data center. I am in the IT industry and have never been opposed to the cloud in general. In fact my company is moving alot of infrastructure there. I just don't feel everything is necessarily a good fit for it like most providers would have you believe. And the fact that it carries the kind of risk that is on full display now.
This post was edited on 12/8/21 at 6:37 am
Posted on 12/8/21 at 6:38 am to MrLSU
Great link
Posted on 12/8/21 at 6:46 am to jdd48
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Yea that's what it is essentially. Just a fancy buzzword for outsourcing your data center. I am in the IT industry and have never been opposed to the cloud in general. In fact my company is moving alot of infrastructure there. I just don't feel everything is necessarily a good fit for it like most providers would have you believe. And the fact that it carries the kind of risk that is on full display now.
correct.
it’s fit for purpose, but to save costs companies are trying to put everything in the cloud and haven’t considered the security vulnerabilities.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 7:15 am to MrLSU
Somehow this will be Orangeman’s fault.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 7:22 am to Klark Kent
Half of my day is spent answered dumb questions like "but will (insert tool name) work in the cloud"
It's just a hardware owned and managed by someone else. You're leasing a data center instead of buying it.
It's just a hardware owned and managed by someone else. You're leasing a data center instead of buying it.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 7:25 am to jdd48
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Think so. Certain portions of the phone system (Mitel) my company uses is still down. Mitel uses AWS. Something to consider next time anyone's company says they want to go all in on the cloud.
Same thing happened to us, except we are using PureCloud. Luckily we have the ability to shift back to our on premise Avaya system when that happened.
Going 100 percent cloud with no offsite redundancy is dumb. You will get caught with a major outage affecting your business at a certain point. Its why we keep things like our Exchange server on-prem and have not moved to the cloud. Email is way to0 important to our business to rely on O365 and all of it's problems.
This post was edited on 12/8/21 at 7:26 am
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