[ale] local fileserver to cloud replacement?

[Steve Litt]

My TLA is indeed SOP in the AAD.

On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 22:47:21 -0500
Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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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