----- Original Message ----- > On 10/04/2012 07:34 AM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > <snip> > > > > With the cost of actual hardware maintenance, and such. Now days I > > see more benefit to the cloud offerings. If you don't have > > regulations saying how your data is handled, moving out into the > > cloud might be a better option. If you don't have to rely on special > > hardware, why buy it up front and deal with it's eventual failure > > and the cost of that downtime. > > > > > I asked the boss "how cloudy" he wanted to get. He hasn't progressed > down that comfort curve yet but needs to. Just getting him to the > point of moving servers out of the office is a big step. The > electricity here > is included as part of the rent ;)
Whats your data size like? That can be a big decider if cloud is right or not. If you need the station wagon of $media_of_era to move it... Well then cloud isn't a good idea unless it is your own cloud. I'm assuming from your original post, you need a half rack because you don't plan on moving very many real pieces of hardware. Also knowing that you may not be able to move from half rack to full without relocating again, I assume you don't plan on upgrading again after that. We had been looking at some software here lately that when in the cloud can monitor load and spin up new servers as load requires and spin them down when not needed. This would let you try and reduce cost as low as possible but not be pricing yourself out of a traffic spike. -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
