Duncan Epping of Yellow Bricks comments:
Howard has a great point here. For some reason many people started using Google, Facebook or Netflix as the prime example of operational efficiency. Startups use it in their pitches to describe what they can bring and how they can simplify your life, and yes I’ve also seen companies like VMware use it in their presentations.When I look back at when I managed these systems my pain was not the infrastructure (servers / network / storage)… Even though the environment I was managing was based on what many refer to as legacy: EMC Clariion, NetApp FAS or HP EVA. The servers were never really the problem to manage either, sure updating firmware was a pain but not my biggest pain point. Provisioning virtual machines was never a huge deal… My pain was caused by the application landscape many of my customers had.
Duncan has a really good point here. Your datacenter isn’t Facebook (and that’s okay). Work on your own efficiencies and leave the massive scale stuff to social media and search engines.
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