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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

We need to ditch cloud entirety and go in house again.

For many many companies that would be returning to the bad-old-days.

I don’t miss getting an emergency page during the Thanksgiving meal because there’s excessive temperature being reported in the in-house datacenter. Going into the office and finding the CRAC failed and its now 105 degree F. And you knew the CRAC preventive maintenance was overdue and management wouldn’t approve the cost to get it serviced even though you’ve been asking for it for more than 6 months. You also know with this high temp event, you’re going to have an increased rate of hard drive failures over the next year.

No thank you.

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There’s a huge gulf between pub clowd and shitty on-prem. My daytime contract is with an organization almost completely on-prem for privacy, although on-prem to them means priv-cloud. Space has been rented. Redundant everything piped in. Redundant everything set up. We run VMs by terraform. Wheeeeee

Point is, posing shitty on-prem as the alternative to the clowd is moving the goalposts a bit.

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- partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  There’s a huge gulf between pub clowd and shitty on-prem.
  
  We agree on this.
  
  Redundant everything piped in. Redundant everything set up. We run VMs by terraform. Wheeeeee
  
  For that customer of yours, is that a single datacenter or does is represent multiple datacenters separated by a large distance across a nation, or perhaps even across national borders?
  
  Point is, posing shitty on-prem as the alternative to the clowd is moving the goalposts a bit.
  
  I think ignoring that shitty on-prem represented a large part of IT infrastructure prior cloud providers is ignoring a critical point. Was it possible to have well-run enterprise IT data centers prior to cloud? Sure. Was everyone doing that? Absolutely not, I’d argue the majority had at least a certain level of jank in their infra and that that floor is raised with cloud providers. Just the basic facilities is enterprise grade irrespective of the server or app config.
  
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