[ale] local fileserver to cloud replacement?

[Jim Kinney]

Cloud

If your BOFH can't put the drives for the server in the backpack of the PFY on the way to the pub, is it really _your_ data.

On March 1, 2021 7:23:34 PM EST, Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>On Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:00:03 -0500
>Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> Snark alert
>> 
>> On March 1, 2021 4:02:43 PM EST, Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>> wrote:
>> >On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 03:48:49PM -0500, Brent Laminack via Ale
>> >wrote:  
>> >> Our organization wants to move about 3.5Tb of data from a local
>> >> file  
>> >server  
>> >> (windows server 2012 R2) to a cloud-based solution. We want to use
>> >>  
>> >OneLogin  
>> >> for SSO and provisioning. What would you recommend? Office
>> >> 365/Sharepoint/OneDrive? Google Workspaces? Box? Nextcloud? any
>> >> recommendations or anti-recommendations would be welcome. Thanks, 
>
>> >
>> >Questions:
>> >
>> > * How many folks need to get to it
>> > * Using what mechanism(s)
>> > * Write-once, or more adhoc?
>> > * Who manages accounts?
>> > * Privacy (/regulatory) requirements
>> > * Reliability requirements
>> > * Bandwidth/performance requirements
>> > * Budget
>> >
>> >In other words, "why are you moving it outside your firewall?"  
>> 
>> 
>> Because a beancounter read an article about how everything is moving
>> to the cloud and having that on the resume looks good for the next
>> job.
>> 
>> I love that feeling of permanence knowing if I don't pay on time
>> every month it all shuts down. And mounting a filesystem over the
>> interwebs is screaming fast (if the user experience is discounted).
>
>AAAAAND:
>
>I love that feeling of security knowing that the vendor will back up
>regularly, with total restoreability, as if the data were their own.
>And the fact that I can back it up locally on a 100MBps Internet line
>at 80 seconds per Terrabyte *if* nobody else is using your Internet
>line and if every single cable, device and router between you and them
>is capable of 100mbit. If not, it's nothing a few hours of rsync will
>do it. The vendor won't charge much for your traffic, right?
>
>Also, it your data is sensitive, you can relax, knowing that the
>vendors' server farms in the nation of Northwest Barfalonia, where
>privacy laws are nonexistent, will vet all their employees and prevent
>them from looking at your data (and blackmailing you).
>
>SteveT
>
>Steve Litt 
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