Re: Can I do my i from the cloud

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Those questions only scratch the surface of the questions I will have.

The first stop, though, was more of a "Is it being done, successfully, now?"
 For a company our size.

And, yes, I'm talking windoze servers, too.


On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 7:42 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You're a businessman - it's a business decision.  Think of it from a
> different perspective.  If you have multiple plants, like we do, then,
> isn't the machine already in the cloud, at least in the remote plants
> perspective?
> Saves you from:
> - Tape handling.
> - Infrastructure dealing with power and cooling concerns.
> - etc
>
> Do you have good comm?  Not only fast, but with alternative routes?  We
> have wireless towers, fiber connections, etc.
>
> Will the cloud provider keep up to date?  Last thing you want is someone
> who carves out a small lpar for you on a machine that tops out on V5R4.
>
> Does the provider have the capacity?  If you need an additional 2G of
> memory and the provider's current machine is topped out, will he be loath
> to have to switch hardware if projected additional customers aren't there?
>  Will he only do so "2 quarters out"?
>
> Are there additional items you want to farm out?  Like TSM (Tivoli Storage
> Manager) to back up PC's and servers?  With them providing you audits of
> backups (why hasn't PC0124 not been backed up in 2 weeks?)?
>
> If your backup tapes are 3570's and their machine doesn't have anything
> that old, how will you handle that?
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> From:   Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   04/20/2011 05:09 PM
> Subject:        Can I do my i from the cloud
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>
> Brainstorming in management meeting today.
>
> Instead of getting new Power 7 HW to replace our Power 5 HW, is the
> state-of-the-universe such that we could entertain putting our i in the
> cloud?
>
> What I mean is, no i, no physical windows servers here, it's all out there
> somewhere.  The only HW here is printers, displays, thin clients, and PC
> workstations.
>
> But I still develop in house for it, still configure it, etc.
>
>
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> Jeff Crosby
> VP Information Systems
> UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
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