The numbers will definitely favor in-house equipment for organizations that do not upgrade frequently...
*ASB *(My Bio via About.Me <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote: > Any discussion of moving services to the cloud needs to begin with a > discussion of budgetary impact. I say this, because it is a board member > who brings it up, throwing this back to them with some data along these > lines might give this individual board member something to truly consider. > Yes, it will require a lot of work, but I think you'll gain a lot from the > process. Begin with your current challenges, lack of bandwidth, outages and > how you'll address those issues and the cost and stipulate it as a > requirement before moving forward. Then, look at migrating services to the > cloud and the costs related to that. Use five year estimates or actually > use the lifecycle of your equipment, when I was working for a school, I > still had three servers that were 7+ years. My hunch is that the costs will > be at best equal but more than likely in favor of maintaining your own > infrastructure. > > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I see the point your board member is making, but the other side of that >> coin, from my standpoint is, who controls the data? What happens to the data >> when cloud provider of choice goes poof? What are your RPO and RTO, and how >> will you achieve recovery if the primary provider goes poof? >> >> Also, what happens when you lose your internet connection for the better >> part of a day? Or, better yet, your provider loses their internet connection >> because a really advanced student or two have decided to perform a DDoS on >> that cloud provider because they don't want to take an exam that is brokered >> by, you guessed it, a server in the cloud... >> >> Far fetched, I know, but like everything else, a business impact analysis >> should be performed to weigh the risks and benefits. >> >> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE >> Technology Coordinator >> Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA >> [email protected] >> www.eaglemds.com >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: techconnect [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:44 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: domain controller in the cloud??? >> >> We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us >> that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says >> everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders, >> authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they >> want to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and >> offsite backups only.) 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