It's time to reconsider going on-prem

Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by partycoder on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @08:57PM (#12697594)

Nope it is not.

Going on premise might have some advantages but it comes with completely different problems that you didn't even thought about. Some of them:

* You thought of all the power redundancy, ideal cooling, humidity, etc... but then your office gets robbed and all your computers stolen.

* Network wiring... some people are lousy, create an entire spaghetti mess with them, used a crappier type of cable, cable crosstalk from other equipment, someone stepped over a cable and damaged it. Which one is it? good luck finding it out.

* Hardware fails, power supplies fail, disks fail, everything can fail.

You can pick these battles, or you can focus on your software based service. I suggest the latter.

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Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by brazzledazzle on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @09:33PM (#12697743)

I think when people say on-prem they mean a lot of different things but generally that doesn't include a crappy server room in your office building. They're probably thinking of a real data center.

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Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by praneshp on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @09:42PM (#12697772)

Do your first two points happen frequently in a semi-professionally run data center? I haven't even heard of such stuff. Hardware failures happen often, I agree.

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