We sell hardware built for and bundled with VMware. Customers are returning it. This isn’t a good look.
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argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
My job estimated our VMware cost will be 10 times more expensive. We’re moving to the cloud as soon as possible.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 10 months ago
billwashere@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not sure why they’d think cloud will be cheaper. If anything, costs are way more unpredictable from the research I’ve done.
figjam@midwest.social 10 months ago
Generally that is true only if you don’t know your workloads.
billwashere@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My workloads are open to students doing things on an LMS. Chaotic doesn’t begin to describe it. 🙃
figjam@midwest.social 10 months ago
Lol, THEY have no idea about workloads
henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Man I wish we could do this, but our customers won’t agree to processing their data in the cloud. We’re going to get milked so hard.
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 10 months ago
A panicky move to the cloud might be extremely expensive too. Especially if you don’t have cloud ready applications (old on prem apps, full fledged VMs, etc. )
argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It’s not panic. We already have direct connects to AWS and Azure. It’s something we’ve been working on for five years now.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s interesting, because hosting anything in the cloud is usually way more expensive than on prem. We just pulled a large number of our systems back out of gcp because of it.
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Well that was my point, moving to the cloud requires drastic changes in the way your infra works. You cannot have full fledged VMs running at 10% of capacity 95% of the time like you do on prem. You need to be able to scale up and down on a whim with containers/micro services/whatever you call it. I’ve worked with a lot of companies that never understood that and bitterly regretted moving to the cloud.
x2XS2L0U@feddit.de 10 months ago
Haha, so you move from one bad decision to another? Being stuck at a lousy cloud company? Oh my!