[MLUG] Cloud Computing

[David Montminy]

My experience tells me that in terms of jobs, nothing is really 'saved'. 
The MS Office VBA developper is now doing Javascript on Google App 
Scripts, and the sysadmin still has to manage the accounts and 
permissions for the entire staff, even if the server is not "owned" by 
the company.

The cloud is mostly useful for small company. For a large enough 
enterprise, some questions start to arise like:
-Do you really own your e-mails?
-Can you be affected by a laws outside your juridiction?
-What happens in case of a compromised server? (like the Epsilon case 
currently in the news)
-What do you do if they decide to shut down the service?

Things like Amazon EC2 and Google App are great for any starting company 
but I doubt that very big business will move entirely to the cloud.... 
unless they own that cloud of course :)

David Montminy

On 05/04/2011 1:19 PM, Alexandre Blanc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> IMHO, i'd say that the cloud is not a real problem and won't drop
> sysadmin jobs, at the end (maybe some managers think they'll save some
> money this way, but won't last).
>
> Cloud allow basically to share hardware resources that you don't have to
> maintain (but somebody still has to do the job...), and the installed
> systems on those, still have to be maintained (still need a sysadmin!).
>
> There's also the fact that it's much more complicated to keep the
> control on the processes, on the confidentiality and more.
>
> A last point, even if "shops" move to the cloud, they still need a local
> network and clients (even thin clients) to access and manage the datas.
> So, sysadmins still have to keep all of this connected together.
>
> We'll see in the very next future, but, my guess is that sysadmin will
> still be needed wherever there's something about using any kind of
> computers, and network.
>
> Alexandre BLANC (Sysadmin / Netadmin)
>
>
>
> Le mardi 05 avril 2011 à 09:42 -0700, Leslie S Satenstein a écrit :
>> With many shops moving to the cloud, what is the impact to the
>> system-maintainer / system-administrator?  Will there be a drop in
>> jobs?
>>
>> Would you recommend a person, as a good career, study to be a
>> sysadmin?
>>
>> Maybe my question belongs on Facebook, but then too much spam.
>>
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David Montminy