[RndTbl] Attempted murder of sysadmin

John Lange john at johnlange.ca
Thu Jul 13 11:51:00 CDT 2017


Have you ever spun up a VM to test something, or done a POC, or wanted to
test how your web site would work on the newest RedHat LAMP stack? Then
per-minute billing is relevant to you.

Have you ever scoped hardware and storage based on it's peak expected
utilization? Then it sits idle 99.9% of the time and the storage fills up
10X faster than anticipated?  Then per-minute billing is relevant to you.

Highly scaleable micro-swarms are not the most common use case for
per-minute billing. It's the ability to forego the complex capacity
planning stage of a project (which is largely guesswork anyhow) and
eliminate large, risky capital investments that's the real win.

I completely disagree that Admins have a target on their back. The Cloud,
like any seismic shift in any industry, will demand new things of Admins.
They will be asked to embrace new ways of thinking and new technologies
which deliver better outcomes for business. The skills experience that
today's Admins have are highly transferable to the Cloud so there is great
opportunity.

But sure, some Admins will insist that they can still do more with a horse
and buggy than a newfangled truck, and truth be told, horses and buggies
stuck around a long time after trucks were first invented so existing
Admins will be around for many years to come.

John
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