Comments on: Open IT Forum: What data center fads should be avoided?

By: coralbasie

coralbasie — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:48:53 +0000

I’ve read a lot about hybrid cloud computing. That seems to be the most risky approach. I have lots of server capacity but I fear mixing n matching hosted apps for my data center and cloud apps for partners. Is there a way to balance failover?

By: coralbasie

coralbasie — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:30:22 +0000

Big data is a current fad. Not sure how real that is.

By: coralbasie

coralbasie — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:50:28 +0000

Big Data seems to be a huge fad right now.

By: sixball

sixball — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:27:08 +0000

iPads – More toys than Utility…

By: atd81

atd81 — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:23:14 +0000

These are all really interesting answers. Thanks for posting and helping out the newbies.

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By: ehanse24

ehanse24 — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:19:35 +0000

@Chippy: I agree. As one of my professors even said, I.T. is meant to fail. If it wasn’t, why is there an abundance of hard drives, RAM, video cards, etc… out there? A lot of people are marketing the cloud as something that is going to guarantee 100% uptime, which it won’t. There will be failures, even if you have 100 DC’s all over the world.

@Melanie: Another fad that should be avoided is assumed-fail-safe backups. Systems that “alert” when you a backup is done or not is a proper way to manage the system and its services. Is it a nice feature? Yes. But backups should be checked an hour or so after they were scheduled, to see if they went through. Is it tedious? Definitely. But would you rather go through a tedious measure, or (almost) risk losing your job because you didn’t check that a backup was properly done?

By: chippy088

chippy088 — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:31:34 +0000

The biggest stumbling block of cloud computing is the non-technicals telling the technical guys it is the way to go without even understanding the logistics of the system.

When it fails, and it must at some time due to the physical locations of the devices (SAN NAS etc), it is amazing the look on their faces when it does. The time to recover is not something they have factored in.

Buzzwords – the downfall of all executive non-technicals.

By: ehanse24

ehanse24 — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:37:25 +0000

My biggest complaint as of late is the use of cloud computing. This isn’t new technology, but the way its being used isn’t new, either.

Take for example Amazon. When their DC went down for EC2 and pretty much all of the east coast went poof on their servers, it wasn’t even thought about. But what if that DC housed government documents and the like; would you care then? Or even more so, what if your medical records were on there, and the past 5 years got erased due to the situation, would you care?

I really don’t see cloud computing taking over a big part of the market. It already existed pre-term “cloud computing”, and it’s not going to change, either. However, the concept of “cloud” computing is. What needs to happen is people take better care of their systems and not rely on redundancy to fix their faults.

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