Saturday 6 August 2011

Harbinger of the company IT suppliers, preparing the cloud of pain

This column made its IT infrastructure in his ear, and two suppliers were built with private clouds (keep reading, no, no! Is very good, I promise) is about. Yes, vendors, IT departments and mail servers, application servers, such as ERP, and anything, all the same thing happens, you need to do during the gathering.

Service providers and with the seller, - by the way, a blurry line - by far the most popular cloud computing initiatives. Of course, there vendors who directly or indirectly, as a machine for the money, today is the sales side of the bet 90% of the efforts of private cloud.

Part of the fun? Yes, IST dies schönste Freude schadenfreude, of course. What was the last immigration? Now this picture: "It's a little scary, given $ 100 million of the organization would be rolling on the road," Jon Drew, GreenPages Kittery, Maine, said the director of IT outsourcing.

In August, the plan is for entertainment. GreenPages Maine island in a river from their homes all Badgers send consolidated IT infrastructure, not coincidentally, most working in the client infrastructure, Charlestown, Massachusetts, Windstream Corp., IT investment.

Basically, Compaq ProLiant group of semi-supported and supported HP ProLiant - Drew GreenPages he spent three years gathering the entire infrastructure, he said. We have a dozen more than 90 servers in a virtualized environment, easy access to transport has been the practical effect of the UCS, but for a fight. Among other things, a virtualized application FileMaker both "self-Shat" has been called the UCS chassis, and a virtual machine as the Cisco Unified Communications will not work as a simple fact that it was strange.

Once the excavation has discovered the Achilles heel of a cloud, and Drew were all responsible for pain and suffering. "Two of them are truly dedicated to the fax data and two by two, believe it or we have a lot of faxes, not the building, had a voice."

T-1 backbone, i.e., lines, amounting to Spiff Drew had a 10 GB internal network that is ... But literally everyone in the building at 3 Mbps. So pack up and maintenance, and customer equipment and infrastructure are very GreenPages Boston, decided to move. But first, multicolored, the collection of thousands of dollars have gone months T-1. That is the problem. "It took four months for DS3 to get it installed."

40 MB built copper now, so I go to a colo? Located next to the new hosting infrastructure and keep many customers, all good, and GreenPages cloud, "a lot of sand was parked in the middle of a river. Why not do the same "Lovin public should pay? But in modern times, it is relatively simple to move the story.

"We were literally down the street from each other laboratory had," George Watts, CA Vice-President of the cloud strategy. Unlike Watts is under work for a living, could mean, and John Drew, the style in a cloud three years to discuss the CA infrastructure. However, the CA, a fleet of foreign companies under their wing, and Watts is a famous company with a tactic to buy time predators 1000000000, $ (TI) has lived a real life experience began in 2007 and died in overnight.

"We rely on it as a CRT screens with the old in a row went to the room ... Can anyone predict that? "Nothing, he said, though, and it absorbs water. EC found that the performance of a server chassis and took a picture for future generations. Watts said that special arrangements for new projects and computer equipment, hardware and servers on the network once I have hands, they remain connected with a handful of death. But at the end of the project, successful or not, the material n has never treated this type of mold around the heart of art, such as closets, data centers, and laboratories in the basement, the collection has remained.

Cloud People "are not they," "test engineer, some people even had a data center," said Watts. Watts finished cleaning the house, and now the lack of CA IT needs an application of virtualization, cloud consolidated. But instead of a millstone than a decade old asset infrastructure into something that took three years to be lit.

And the lesson for this company. These guys are what the company he will go in the coal mine canary. Assets are depreciated or fighting with his business rival Amazon, but it will not be how many, of course. And at the same time be a very fun and I will put aside as an observer - 95 images of the southern clouds GreenPages a truck "- but it is a fact.

"Change your thinking." Watts said.

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