Which is pretty descriptive of most educational environments... :-) On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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