[ale] local fileserver to cloud replacement?

[Jim Kinney]

Pimply Faced Youth

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On March 1, 2021 7:37:51 PM EST, 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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