December 13, 2022 at 12:00 pm
A few years ago I was interviewing for a position. Roughly 2016. I was speaking with the IT director (fairly small company, located in the N Chicago suburbs). One of the things he told me was that when he joined, the company was using a cloud service based in Texas.
The first thing he did was to move it to a local cloud service. He seemed to think that improved their service, and was a good thing for him to have done. In fact, he was quite proud of it.
My background is not IT/programming, but I do know C, R, and am learning Python.
At the time I wondered if he was joking, or trying to get me to react. I had always thought the whole POINT of the cloud, is that you neither know, nor care where it is physically located.
Changing cloud providers might well improve cost or service, but surely one should not really care where it is located?
This company was NOT using graphics of any sort, their data would have been entries into a central database.
Was I right to think he was an idiot, or pulling some HR games? Or is there any reason to care that it is 50 miles away vs 900?
December 13, 2022 at 1:16 pm
My first question would be if the IT director had any connection to the local cloud provider 😉
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December 13, 2022 at 2:12 pm
Latency?
I mean, if we assume everything else being equal, latency. Otherwise, it was something else, good, or bad, at one of the locations. Nothing else makes sense.
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December 13, 2022 at 3:18 pm
Latency?
I mean, if we assume everything else being equal, latency. Otherwise, it was something else, good, or bad, at one of the locations. Nothing else makes sense.
It is always "fun" to speculate, about network quality, hardware provisioning, SLAs, Cloud Provider Location and (a list of too many things to enumerate here)
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A few questions come to mind, such as where are the end customers located, maybe they are all in Texas? Was this a cost-saving exercise? Why go with a single-location provider if that is the case? What is the network connection redundancy for that location?
I think you get my point 😉
December 13, 2022 at 3:31 pm
Grant Fritchey wrote:Latency?
I mean, if we assume everything else being equal, latency. Otherwise, it was something else, good, or bad, at one of the locations. Nothing else makes sense.
It is always "fun" to speculate, about network quality, hardware provisioning, SLAs, Cloud Provider Location and (a list of too many things to enumerate here) 😎 A few questions come to mind, such as where are the end customers located, maybe they are all in Texas? Was this a cost-saving exercise? Why go with a single-location provider if that is the case? What is the network connection redundancy for that location? I think you get my point 😉
100%. Kind of can't imagine bragging about moving something locally without also backing up exactly WHY a local move was such a win. Cause otherwise, I'd instantly respond, "Well Azure/GCP/AWS is going to do almost all of this better, so what's our win?" If you ask me, local means small and inexperienced. It doesn't equate, automatically, to better.
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December 15, 2022 at 9:42 am
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January 27, 2023 at 4:39 pm
I'd wonder as well if there were some personal connection or perhaps some other non-business reason.
The only reason most people care about where you are in the cloud is governance. Sometimes you can't have data in a geography, but that wouldn't apply here.
The other thing might be someone using a colocation where they (rarely) send someone to the facility. I've seen some smaller providers calling themselves the private cloud in this scenario.
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