As Ken points out, consolidation does increase the value of the target, but it does not necessarily increase the risk of success.
Pay very close attention to the recent hacking reports put out by Verizon and others. The number of attacks -- successful attacks -- against small business is rising dramatically, and in some cases, they don't even know it. With automated scanning and sophisticated attacks, there is little difference for an attacker between "cloud" and "on-premise connected to the Internet"... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Ken Schaefer <k...@kj.net.au> wrote: > A couple of thoughts: > > A 10 man team will be replaced with a 1 man team. And that 1 person will > probably be 18 making $15/hour. > > Isn’t that what has been happening for 30+ years? We used to have lots of > people assembling PCs, help desk staff going out to add peripherals, or > swap a NIC or whatever. None of that happens anymore. > > > > You used to have one engineer to manage just a dozen servers, or a > directory with a few hundred objects. Now engineers can manage far more. > > > > Yet, at the same time, continued increases in computing power, storage and > network bandwidth (at falling unit cost) have enabled business, government > and other organisations to continue to find new and innovative ways to > harness that underlying infrastructure to produce new products, new > services, new ways of doing research and so on. > > > > All you are seeing is the continued disappearance of the low value work at > the bottom of the food chain. IT, like **every other facet of business** > will see vendors look to commoditise low value, repeatable, well understood > problem domains. > > > > But that doesn’t mean IT will disappear, or that the jobs will. They’ll > migrate to other areas, as people and organisations find new ways to use > their IT to do things that actually make money. Basic infrastructure > services are commoditised. Basic utility services are commoditised. Basic > programming is commoditised. Yet every other day you see new hardware on > the market, new software on the market, new business models on the market > and so on. Someone’s got to come up with all of this, and someone’s got to > make it happen. > > > > As for my personal experience, the bank I work on has more servers, and > more reliance on IT than ever before. That doesn’t mean we want to keep a > fleet of desktop support people hovering around the place. We need more > people who can architect the next great thing in wealth management or > institutional banking, so that we can make money. And people to ensure that > it goes in in a supportable, maintainable way. > > > > I can picture this on CNN "15,000 companies got hacked today when Amazon's > cloud service got compromised. An estimated 250,000,000 US citizens > effected.' > > > > And this isn’t happening today? Amazon might provide a single > point-of-failure. But they’re probably harder to crack than lots of smaller > orgs today. And think about the threat landscape in 5 or 10 years from now > – it’s going to be even more brutal, and many “do it yourself” shops – even > medium and large size organisations are unprepared today, let alone for > what’s coming down the track. Stories like this abound: > http://www.thesecurityblogger.com/?p=1903 > > Most large orgs I’ve worked at are operationally immature – documentation > and processes, approvals etc. don’t exist. The technical staff there think > they’re pretty good, because they can get things done “quicker and faster” > than an outsourcer can. But typically this is at the expense of proper > governance, auditability and accountability. It’s a landscape ripe for > exploit. Typically MSPs at least claim to institute more operationally > mature processes. > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: > listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Jon D > *Sent:* Friday, 15 November 2013 5:42 AM > > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Bye Citrix > > > > Yeah, I agree with what everyone here is saying. > > My guess is we're 1 major hack away from the cloud going up in dust. > > > > I can picture this on CNN "15,000 companies got hacked today when Amazon's > cloud service got compromised. An estimated 250,000,000 US citizens > effected.' > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife < > joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov> wrote: > > Everything comes in waves. Contraction and expansion, centralizing, > decentralizing, cloud, on-prem. > > > > Plus, there are tons of organizations that are so far behind the curve > that there will be plenty of stuff to do out there, anyway. > > > > Joe Heaton > > Enterprise Server Support > > CA Department of Fish and Wildlife > > 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 > > Sacramento, CA 95811 > > Desk: (916) 323-1284 > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: > listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Jon D > *Sent:* Thursday, November 14, 2013 4:54 AM > > > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Bye Citrix > > > > Makes me second guess bothering with getting a masters degree in IT, or > more certifications. > > Sounds like IT might not be around very much in 10 years. > > > > If the users Desktop is in the cloud, and their data is in the cloud, > what's left to do? > > You're not going to have a few servers on-site and a few in the cloud, it > will be all or nothing. > > At least in 10 years, not right away. > > A 10 man team will be replaced with a 1 man team. And that 1 person will > probably be 18 making $15/hour. > > > > So.... Maybe we can all change to computer programming? > > > > . > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Manuel Santos <nel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This reminds me of a music from REM - > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY and I don't feel fine with > it... > > > > 2013/11/14 J- P <jnat...@hotmail.com> > > And who will answer the telephone when user-x has an issue? > and more importantly- who else will have access to the VPC- NSA/CIA/DHS? > > still not sold- 50 per months x 36 = 1800- i can get a nice optiplex or > hp with office for less > > just my .02 > > > > > > > > > > > > Jean-Paul Natola > > ------------------------------ > > From: jeff.s.gottl...@gmail.com > To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > Subject: [NTSysADM] Bye Citrix > Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 20:18:12 -0800 > > Just released today! > > > > > http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/11/amazon-workspaces-desktop-computing-in-the-cloud.html > > > > > > >
