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Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com)
snydeq writes: From telling everyone they're your customer to establishing a cloud strategy, Bob Lewis outlines 12 "industry best practices" that are sure to sink your company's chances of IT success: "What makes IT organizations fail? Often, it's the adoption of what's described as 'industry best practices' by people who ought to know better but don't, probably because they've never had to do the job. From establishing internal customers to instituting charge-backs to insisting on ROI, a lot of this advice looks plausible when viewed from 50,000 feet or more. Scratch the surface, however, and you begin to find these surefire recipes for IT success are often formulas for failure." What "best practices" would you add?
I heard people raving about ITIL so I tried to find out what it is. I still don't know because even thinking about it makes me fall alkdshjg;;dfpgsdgjgshgjpsdhfj gf skoppppppppppkgp
I went through the ITIL Foundations course quite a number of years ago. Could not fucking stay awake.
The instructor was engaging, knowledgeable, they supplied us was a much coffee as we could stand, I kept going outside (in February) to keep myself awake and I still snored through the entire course.
Managed to retain enough, long enough to pass the exam but I couldn't tell you the difference between a process & a function (by the ITIL definition) with a gun to my head.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
From a book on Photographic Technique:
"Best Box. The Photographer has their Camera Bags. The Assistant has the Best Box. "Best" in this context is lost in History, but was generally considered as containing the most important Lighting goodies. The term dates back to Shakespeare. In Cinema, the person responsible for the Best Box is known as the Best Boy, regardless of gender. (Before "Boy" had any specific youthful gender assignment, it referred merely to a Servant or somebody useful, and maintains this definition in Ireland, where such people are known as "Boyos".) About two decades ago, a new term emerged, stolen right from Cinema- "Best Practices"; originally concerning Lighting. Anybody using this term these days off-stage is a fraud, and "Best Practices" is a phrase best commonly employed in the game of "Bullshit Bingo"."
If $100k is a cheap tape system then I've got a cheap bridge to sell you.
LTO5 drives come down in price a lot since the newer LTO types have come out, and you can hold a lot of stuff with staggered backups over a few of those 1.5Tb tapes at less than $30 each.
It doesn't take a massive amount of data before the combined drive and tape cost beats external USB drives.
The important thing is so long as you have something that is not actually connected when disaster strikes. A tape or USB drive that is not physically connected to the machine when things go wrong is the idea.
Yup, had, cuz it ain't YOU, heavy Chris!