[ale] local fileserver to cloud replacement?

[Steve Litt]

Yeah, the PFY grows up to be a PCP.

SteveT

On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 19:37:51 -0500
Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Steve Litt 
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