[ale] local fileserver to cloud replacement?

[Pete Hardie]

PFY ?

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 7:34 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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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