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Don't Be a Server Hugger! (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the old-stewball-was-the-most-loyal-server-horse-we-ever-done-had dept.

Curtis Peterson says admins who hang onto their servers instead of moving into the cloud are 'Server Huggers,' a term he makes sound like 'Horse Huggers,' a phrase that once might have been used to describe hackney drivers who didn't want to give up their horse-pulled carriages in favor of gasoline-powered automobiles. Curtis is VP of Operations for RingCentral, a cloud-based VOIP company, so he's obviously made the jump to the cloud himself. And he has reassuring words for sysadmins who are afraid the move to cloud-based computing is going to throw them out of work. He says there are plenty of new cloud computing opportunities springing up for those who have enough initiative and savvy to grab onto them, by which he obviously means you, right?

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  1. Cloud needs server huggers by chiefcrash · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Isn't the "cloud" just a bunch of servers? Should nobody be hugging THOSE servers either?

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    1. Re:Cloud needs server huggers by afidel · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I run two diesel generators, they're backups for when the local utility stuffs up their responsibility and fails to provide power, it's exactly the same reason I'm not going to outsource my server farm to someone else.

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  2. Re:Wrong concern by jcoy42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I worked around the PHB doing something like this by telling him we'd written our own cloud software and were using it because it was more secure than what is currently available.

    He doesn't talk to cloud guys, because we've already got a cloud provider (AFAHKT).

    Yes, things like this really work in real life.

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