<div dir="auto">Your TLA is not SOP.... </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 21:43 Steve Litt via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yeah, the PFY grows up to be a PCP.<br>
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SteveT<br>
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 19:37:51 -0500<br>
Pete Hardie <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> PFY ?<br>
> <br>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 7:34 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > Cloud<br>
> ><br>
> > If your BOFH can't put the drives for the server in the backpack of<br>
> > the PFY on the way to the pub, is it really _your_ data.<br>
> ><br>
> > On March 1, 2021 7:23:34 PM EST, Steve Litt via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
> > wrote: <br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >> On Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:00:03 -0500<br>
> >> Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> Snark alert <br>
> >>><br>
> >>> On March 1, 2021 4:02:43 PM EST, Solomon Peachy via Ale<br>
> >>> <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> >>> <br>
> >>>> On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 03:48:49PM -0500, Brent Laminack via Ale<br>
> >>>> wrote:<br>
> >>>> <br>
> >>>>> Our organization wants to move about 3.5Tb of data from a local<br>
> >>>>> file<br>
> >>>>> <br>
> >>>> server<br>
> >>>> <br>
> >>>>> (windows server 2012 R2) to a cloud-based solution. We want to<br>
> >>>>> use<br>
> >>>>><br>
> >>>>> OneLogin <br>
> >>>> <br>
> >>>>> 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.<br>
> >>>>> Thanks, <br>
> >>>><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>
> >>>> <br>
> >>><br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Because a beancounter read an article about how everything is<br>
> >>> moving to the cloud and having that on the resume looks good for<br>
> >>> the next 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<br>
> >>> discounted). <br>
> >><br>
> >> AAAAAND:<br>
> >><br>
> >> I love that feeling of security knowing that the vendor will back<br>
> >> up regularly, with total restoreability, as if the data were their<br>
> >> own. And the fact that I can back it up locally on a 100MBps<br>
> >> Internet line at 80 seconds per Terrabyte *if* nobody else is<br>
> >> using your Internet line and if every single cable, device and<br>
> >> router between you and them is capable of 100mbit. If not, it's<br>
> >> nothing a few hours of rsync will do it. The vendor won't charge<br>
> >> 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<br>
> >> prevent them from looking at your data (and blackmailing you).<br>
> >><br>
> >> SteveT<br>
> >><br>
> >> Steve Litt<br>
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