[ale] local fileserver to cloud replacement?

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Mon Mar 1 22:47:21 EST 2021


Your TLA is not SOP....

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 21:43 Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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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>
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