My boss' boss floating it to use because a developer got their boss's ear. My reply was "what business requirement does this meet?". We do already have a VMWare lab manager which I think does essentially this already.
Bottom line is I was directly asked to comment on it, but I have no direct link in the chain of this product getting used or not. I am however in good seats with people that can influence this or not (else that doc wouldn't have made it to me at all). David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 503.548.5229 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: http://aws.amazon.com/ What was the nature of the request? AWS is great for giving access to developers who need to put things together quickly (for prototypes, etc) which will need broad external access. Allows you to focus more on requests that are fleshed out and heading for production, or that require quick turn-up/tear-down times. ASB (My Bio via About.Me<http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:46 PM, David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: This just got put in my lap for comments and thoughts. Kneejerk says "why - we already have infrastructure here...". Although throwing our developers into this gets them off "my" environment that, while appealing, isn't the right reason to consider such an action... Thoughts/comments about the service? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 503.548.5229 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
