Cisco or Microsoft?

[ass17]

But the market of on site VM's is on its way out. Why train for something that is coming obsolete and then have to retrain again when it finally does happen?

 

Do VMware see it that way? [emoji1]

[PotNoodleTech]

But the market of on site VM's is on its way out.

 

On it's way out eh? Ahh yes, everything is going to live in the cloud isn't it.

 

It's like outsourcing the IT department, seemed like a great idea when you looked at the excel spreadsheet provided by the outsourcing company's report, but in practice, you lost all control over a mission critical part of you're business, lost the ability to react instantly due to being tied into lengthy, rigid contracts, and actually it ended up costing you much more in the long run and you wish you'd never bothered!

 

What happens when Microsoft/google decide to charge £5 per user per year with no warning? Ooh those projected cost savings not looking quite so good. What happens when they decide calendar functionality is not needed any more and forcibly remove it? What happens when X cloud company get hacked / taken over / go bust, and they didn't actually ever backup you're data despite you hoping they did? What happens when you didn't read the small print and actually you're data now belongs to cloud company and has been sold to a man in india? You've got zero control, you're on a rollercoaster ride and you can't get off!

 

There's going to be plenty of scope for virtualisation experts over the next 10 years.

Edited March 2, 2016 by PotNoodleTech

[ass17]

 

There's going to be plenty of scope for virtualisation experts over the next 10 years.

 

I rest my case, 10 years is long time and will web hosting companies will still offer VPS services for a long time

[rich_tech]

On it's way out eh? Ahh yes, everything is going to live in the cloud isn't it.

 

It's like outsourcing the IT department, seemed like a great idea when you looked at the excel spreadsheet provided by the outsourcing company's report, but in practice, you lost all control over a mission critical part of you're business, lost the ability to react instantly due to being tied into lengthy, rigid contracts, and actually it ended up costing you much more in the long run and you wish you'd never bothered!

 

What happens when Microsoft/google decide to charge £5 per user per year with no warning? Ooh those projected cost savings not looking quite so good. What happens when they decide calendar functionality is not needed any more and forcibly remove it? What happens when X cloud company get hacked / taken over / go bust, and they didn't actually ever backup you're data despite you hoping they did? What happens when you didn't read the small print and actually you're data now belongs to cloud company and has been sold to a man in india? You've got zero control, you're on a rollercoaster ride and you can't get off!

 

There's going to be plenty of scope for virtualisation experts over the next 10 years.

 

The trouble is usually the people at the top only take account of pounds and pence I think when these people present to them about these potential savings topics and also outsourcing to cloud is something that I see being put about again in Educational IT, Business IT is in a much different position to Education I think at this point because of the higher costs involved for their services if they go down that route.

 

Education - I genuinely think with Office365 and GAFE being pushed to schools as a free incentive to go that way, as far as managements are concerned, it means you no longer need that expensive server as far as their concerned now, because MS/Google will take it all without any costs. We are seeing it being slowly pushed as a simplified solution that fits all evils now here, its just a case of the internet holding out and being fit for the online age and purpose. (we all know that this is universally a bad idea against having some local storages and services that you maintain security and control over.)

 

I think over the next 10 years a lot of us will see shifts into different fields than education because of the pushing of cloud services upon us.

[FN-GM]

On it's way out eh? Ahh yes, everything is going to live in the cloud isn't it.

 

It's like outsourcing the IT department, seemed like a great idea when you looked at the excel spreadsheet provided by the outsourcing company's report, but in practice, you lost all control over a mission critical part of you're business, lost the ability to react instantly due to being tied into lengthy, rigid contracts, and actually it ended up costing you much more in the long run and you wish you'd never bothered!

 

What happens when Microsoft/google decide to charge £5 per user per year with no warning? Ooh those projected cost savings not looking quite so good. What happens when they decide calendar functionality is not needed any more and forcibly remove it? What happens when X cloud company get hacked / taken over / go bust, and they didn't actually ever backup you're data despite you hoping they did? What happens when you didn't read the small print and actually you're data now belongs to cloud company and has been sold to a man in india? You've got zero control, you're on a rollercoaster ride and you can't get off!

 

There's going to be plenty of scope for virtualisation experts over the next 10 years.

 

Do you really think Microsoft is going to go bust? If they start charging more all you have to do it pull the image file from the Azure platform and move it elsewhere.

 

And this is nothing like outsourcing an IT department. Its the same stuff its just your Virtual Server is not on site its on someone else.