It's time to reconsider going on-prem

Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by dantiberian on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @08:34PM (#12697503)

This is a great article, but it would be good to state up-front that the author works for a company that sells a service designed to help you go on-prem. It's not totally clear until later in the article that this is the case. It would also help put the article in context better.

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Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by MattRogish on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @09:10PM (#12697648)

Another company that does this - very little marketing - is https://www.replicated.com . I don't get paid for recommending them but they do great work (some of our clients are theirs etc).

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Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by nraynaud on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @09:58PM (#12697846)

I'm doing a contract for one of their clients, it's quite a challenge to develop against that.

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Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by BenjaminCoe on Thursday October 13, 2016 @04:23PM (#12703744)

We've had the opposite experience using Replicated for npm's on-prem npm Enterprise software.

I was originally trying to build our Enterprise solution using Ansible, targeting a few common OSes (Ubuntu, Centos, RHEL); headaches gradually began to pile up, surrounding the "tiny" differences in each of these environments -- I'm VERY happy to offload this work.

It took me a little while to wrap my head around best practices regarding placing our services in Docker containers, but once I was over this conceptual leap I was quite happy.

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Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by kordless on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:57AM (#12698801)

Sandstorm.io is another. FWIW, we've been talking about these types of startups coming for a few years now. It's probably a few years out, but on-prem (or what I call the Intercloud) is definitely going to be bigger than anything we've seen yet.

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Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by twakefield on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:00PM (#12697855)

I'm the OP and author. I figured that because it's on the company blog with an about us that says what we do this was properly disclosed. But maybe it could use an additional lead in.

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Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by dantiberian on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:53PM (#12698299)

Ah, I see now. I read the article on mobile, and it didn't show the sidebar there.

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Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by twakefield on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:21AM (#12698391)

Ah, yes. I forgot we hide the sidebar for mobile. Will take this into account in the future.

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Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by bluetwo on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @08:41PM (#12697524)

Yep. I have to agree with this comment.

My first thought was about some advice I would give someone considering this (having been pushed into this situation by a large healthcare client years back).

But once I found it was a sales piece, that thought faded.

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