[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

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>From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj via
>Info-vax
>Sent: December-22-21 1:00 PM
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>Cc: Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk>
>Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?
>
>On 12/21/2021 11:21 AM, chris wrote:
>> On 12/21/21 00:46, Grant Taylor wrote:
>>> Compare and contrast fully patched system in a co-location facility /
>>> Virtual Private Server in the cloud which is utilizing disk
>>> encryption, can't decrypt anything (on boot) without (remote)
>>> operator interaction, verses a server in an office that hasn't ever
>>> been patched and is internet accessible.
>>
>> Cherry picking the most extreme cases as an example is hardly a valid
>> argument.
>>
>> What was that date center that burned down recently ?, took weeks to
>> get all the customers back up and running and understand that some are
>> still waiting. Ok, rare event, but trust an external supplier like
>> that and you really need to understand the risks. That's why companies
>> with long experience of IT, like Barclays, choose to keep all data
>> local onsite...
>
>Barclays chose on-prem.
>
>But that is not a universal picture across banks.
>
>A quick google of some big banks revealed:
>
>Barclays - private cloud
>Deutsche Bank - Google cloud
>HSBC - Amazon cloud
>JP Morgan - multi cloud
>Bank of America - IBM cloud
>Citibank - private cloud
>Goldman Sachs - Amazon cloud
>BNP Paribas - private cloud
>UBS - Microsoft cloud
>
>They are all over.
>
>Arne
>

Other than marketing, outsourcing is not much different to a Public Cloud
i.e., giving all and/or part of your IT stack to an external vendor in
return for paying a fixed and/or variable charge based on resources
dedicated and/or used on a monthly basis. Both provide compute and/or
storage capacity on demand (COD has been around since 70's or 80')
solutions. Course, one could argue there are no outsourcers who are as large
as AWS or Azure, but the principles are the same.

A Private Cloud is a business decision to implement an IT environment that
has many of the benefits of a Public Cloud (capacity on demand, automated
provisioning of VM servers, standardized API's), but also provides
additional benefits of:

- choice of platforms - Solaris, AIX, Mainframe z/OS etc., OpenVMS, HP-UX
etc. still provide a huge amount of the worlds business transaction
processing. Companies can integrate these platforms on prem with low
latency, customized solutions that integrate with the companies integrated
service desk (see below).
- choice of DC location e.g. if multi-site availability is required with 0
RPO (no loss of data - think banks and other financial businesses), then you
need synchronous replication that by industry best practices, dictates sites
be within 100km of each other). Case in point - Azure in Canada. Moving to
Azure in Canada means your workloads will be hosted in the one MS Toronto DC
(most workloads) or in their Quebec City DC (800km apart).- control,
implementation and monitoring of security policies, 
- control of top to bottom IT stack - minimize finger pointing between
multiple vendors)
- integrated service management model (monitoring alerts, events of all IT
layers integrated with company Service Desk, synthetic transactions with
control of network environment)
- increased control of latency issues (Internet is largely based on
different vendors, flexible routing options which provides great
availability, but different routing means different latency that can change
at any time)
- dealing with more rapid changes in service model requirements 

Having stated this, a Private Cloud is often implemented via a collocation
option i.e. in a Tier III high availability, highly secure DC that is
managed by a DC facility provider. Many of those doing Private Clouds want
the benefits of the above, but do not view building or maintaining a Tier
III DC facility as being strategic to their business.  If a vendor does not
provide dual sites within 100km, then they will typically choose a second DC
provider as well so that the less than 100km requirement for sync
replication can be maintained.

Vendors like HPE and IBM are jumping on the growing number of Customers
migrating from Public Cloud and/or transforming their existing IT
environments to Private Cloud solutions. Google "HPE Greenlake", or review
the following IBM link:
<https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/introduction-to-private-cloud>


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com





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