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The New IT Crisis

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the technology-implosion dept.

Matey-O writes "You've succeeded in delivering 5 9's, your server farm is a well oiled machine, the helpdesk lines lie dormant. No? Well then how do you get credit for the work you do, when all that's noticed is the downtime? When the IT budget has to be justified, and you're overworked, undermanned, and you have to apply three patches to 100 servers before Close of Business, what has to change in IT before we melt down? Marc Andreessen has an interesting article on what has to happen to IT next."

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  1. CRISIS CRISIS DANGER WILL ROBINSON by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post detected!

    what we gunta do

  2. Marc Andreessen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He ran his company into the ground, now he can do the same for yours! Yay!

  3. Oh, and one more thing by SteweyGriffin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I had a long conversation with friends during a late-night study session back when I was doing my undergrad at CMU. Basically, we agreed that parents always were treated more leniently than people who didn't have any kids.

    So, first thing out of college, I impregnated my girlfriend at the time. And guess what -- it was a good choice; my friends and I were right. Work life got much better. Lateness was tolerated ("Tyler threw up again and I had to clean it up"), absense was tolerated ("My girlfriend has morning sickness, and I had to stay up all night to feed the baby"), etc.

    I don't mean this to sound cruel, but with all the leniency employers give parents, and all the tax breaks parents get, the question is why don't you have kids?! :-)

  4. simplification.. by ramzak2k · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If the guy is talking of increasing reliability for enterprise servers, companies are already along that path- e.g. IBM. If he is referring to day to day tasks of administration, automation in that aspect would be slow to come by. Is it just me or does anyone else think that the comparing IT administration to telephone lines is to over simplify the former ? The interface for one is more complex. The goals of IT admins going around trouble shooting application related problems cannot be narrowed down to distinct goals that telephone systems might have i.e:
    1) Provide a Dial tone
    2) Allow user to make a connection
    3) Allow user to disconnect

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  5. I'm a lasy motherfucker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I work in the porn industry. I basically eat, fuck, sleep. And I get paid about $1500 an hour. The number of hours a day I work depends on how many fucks my penis can take before it feels like frayed rope.

  6. You're so stupid ! by stud9920 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Everyone knows it's 47 ! How did you ge past first grade ?

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