<html><head></head><body>Cloud<br><br>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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 1, 2021 7:23:34 PM EST, Steve Litt via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br>On Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:00:03 -0500<br>Jim Kinney via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Snark alert<br><br>On March 1, 2021 4:02:43 PM EST, Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale@ale.org><br>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 03:48:49PM -0500, Brent Laminack via Ale<br>wrote: <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;">Our organization wants to move about 3.5Tb of data from a local<br>file <br></blockquote>server <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;">(windows server 2012 R2) to a cloud-based solution. We want to use<br> <br></blockquote>OneLogin <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;">for SSO and provisioning. What would you recommend? Office<br>365/Sharepoint/OneDrive? Google Workspaces? Box? Nextcloud? any<br>recommendations or anti-recommendations would be welcome. Thanks, <br></blockquote><br>Questions:<br><br> * How many folks need to get to it<br> * Using what mechanism(s)<br> * Write-once, or more adhoc?<br> * Who manages accounts?<br> * Privacy (/regulatory) requirements<br> * Reliability requirements<br> * Bandwidth/performance requirements<br> * Budget<br><br>In other words, "why are you moving it outside your firewall?" <br></blockquote><br><br>Because a beancounter read an article about how everything is moving<br>to the cloud and having that on the resume looks good for the next<br>job.<br><br>I love that feeling of permanence knowing if I don't pay on time<br>every month it all shuts down. And mounting a filesystem over the<br>interwebs is screaming fast (if the user experience is discounted).<br></blockquote><br>AAAAAND:<br><br>I love that feeling of security knowing that the vendor will back up<br>regularly, with total restoreability, as if the data were their own.<br>And the fact that I can back it up locally on a 100MBps Internet line<br>at 80 seconds per Terrabyte *if* nobody else is using your Internet<br>line and if every single cable, device and router between you and them<br>is capable of 100mbit. If not, it's nothing a few hours of rsync will<br>do it. The vendor won't charge much for your traffic, right?<br><br>Also, it your data is sensitive, you can relax, knowing that the<br>vendors' server farms in the nation of Northwest Barfalonia, where<br>privacy laws are nonexistent, will vet all their employees and prevent<br>them from looking at your data (and blackmailing you).<br><br>SteveT<br><br>Steve Litt <br>Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times<br><a href="http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive">http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive</a><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>