Sign in / up

* Posts by egericson

3 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Sep 2013

Oh snap – AWS daddy disses IT's 'old guard': You're so 2000-and-late

egericson

AWS is like a rental car

Great when you need temporary wheels and capacity, but lousy (and expensive) to live with for any length of time.

As "K" put it, the public cloud is just another tool in the IT/Ops toolbox. It's great for somethings, and bad for others.

2 0
egericson
Reply Icon

Re: private clouds offered the same benefits as AWS

I'd love to see your numbers on your OpEx costs being halved under AWS. I ran the same ROI calculations for us (we're colocated) and came up with a 6-7 month ROI... for building it ourselves.

AWS is ghastly expensive for anything but temporary surge capacity, I'm consistently stunned when I hear about companies running their full time Operations on it. (e.g. Reddit, which is still losing money as an org, even with only 28 people)

4 0

Rotten routers caused Intermedia service crash, says CEO

egericson

Their 1830EST resolution time seems optimistic

Based on the chatter from down (and angry) customers, it took much later for the EXCH028-31 servers to come up.

Additionally, describing the service as "restored" when you know (and you're saying) that it's going to be another 8 hours to empty the mail queue is flat out disingenuous.

0 0