Posts by Vulture@C64

Don't make the mistake of thinking that Broadcom won't be making a massive profit from VMware. They have deleted from their responsibility everything that doesn't create profit. They have palmed off the smaller customers to their partners to service. They have retained all the large customers which are unable to change. How long does it take a Bank or an Insurance company or a large hosting business to swap from one hypervisor to another ? It takes years, so most won't bother yet.

VMware will be worth a lot less after Broadcom have raped it, the key staff will leave, the R&D will be deleted over time, their support team has already been shrunk.

So every business has to develop a strategy for how they will delete VMware from their business as over the next 5-7 years the quality of the product will deteriorate, the support will get slower and less effective and there wont be anything new released, so it will eventually become a legacy product and you cant run a modern business on legacy systems.

As above you have to tell the white label provider who your customers are and then pay a massive cost, if you want pay as you go it's still US$400 minimum per core per year which is for most businesses 4x or 5x what they were paying before and you have to get support from the white labeler... who may not be used to providing support on the level you may need. Most of them have very good internal tech teams for their own cloud offering but aren't used to delivering that to external customers.

Broadcom might very well make a lot of money from this venture over the next few years, there's no doubt about that, but nobody forgets being shafted, even the CEOs and CFOs of the Fortune 100 don't like it, no amount of stock options or salary or benefits make up for being made a public looser in the finance game. They won't forget and the industry won't forget.

The world is also a much smaller place than you think when it comes to the people who have the authority/money/position to spend millions of $ on IT infrastructure and they won't forget this either ! We can't stop it happening but we can make better decisions in the future.

We've abandoned VMware for XCP-NG, not just because of the cost increase, but primarily because we don't want to do business with a bunch of rancid vultures who think so little of their customers that they think they can walk all over us and then offer us scraps of white label product from the tables of the second tier partners.

Broadcom don't need me or our money, they will survive from the 1000 largest customers VMware has and they will think it's great and as per their plan.

Oh, adding the word Symantec into the mix of VMware products is going to do wonders for VMware's image, not ! They've already removed almost 3000 staff from VMware and probably more to come outside of the US, they'll be loosing highly knowledgable staff from aggregators and partners who no longer qualify and now they want us to by f**king Symantec ! It's a laugh, it's like the kids are running the company.

Even when I came through Heathrow last Sunday only a small number of eGates were operational and there were no reported problems then. Staff also shouting at travellers to use all lanes or something like that, many of whom clearly didn't understand the language and through there was a problem like a fire. It's also dirty and shabby, and I'd come from Delhi which was fast, efficient and clean ! Why can't we get basic things like this right and India and most other countries can ?

You can put all the hardware security you like on a device but if you then install Android which is really designed to harvest as much info from you as it can, you may as well not bother with the hardware security.

Sadly, this is typical of the response of most smaller businesses in the UK (I know this was in The Netherlands) - many directors here either don't understand or don't care about their customers data and see data protection as a nuisance.

Significant fines at the maximum level will get their attention but with most regulators only willing to issue large fines to businesses which can easily afford the fines, like BA for example, nothing much will change.

It looked and sounded like a BGP fat finger error again . . . but the cover up sounds much better than an engineer mis-typed a subnet mask.

I have used Oracle and SQL Server for years, but these days anybody who needs anything more than PostgreSQL is probably not doing it right. If PostgreSQL is good enough for the likes of CERN then it's good enough for pretty much anything. It's lightening fast, uber reliable and stable and just does what it says on the tin. Run it on Centos 7x64 and you have probably the most reliable and stable SQL database system ever produced.

The sooner publicly funded research is available to the public the better. So much research is locked away and stays locked away even after successful peer review, for commercial reasons. If it's funded by the public, then with very few obvious exceptions, it should be available to the public.

Well don't look at any headphones from Sony, Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, Grado or HiFiMan - all have much more expensive devices than this and when you consider the technology in the Apple devices, they look reasonable. If you want to really hear something lovely, try the Focal Utopia . . . but you won't obviously because you want everything on the cheap and these are £3k . . . which makes the Apple headphones look cheap.

Steve Jobs may have been unpleasant but he did know how to market the Woz invention. Without Jobs, Woz wouldn't have had the success he did - he'd have been a successful engineer but could he have done the many things he has without the recognition and money that came via Jobs ?

If I have a hero it would be the Woz. Happy Birthday !

Just goes to show that whatever the cause was, IBM do not have resilient architecture and systems, which is one of the key reasons businesses use cloud rather than on-prem.

I suspect the same is also true of Orible cloud, we're just waiting for the proof. We've had it with Azure.

I wish Cisco would put as much effort into keeping their SMART software portal updated/bug free as they obviously do creating rubbish like this. You'd be mad to run things like this on a switch but then again, you'd be mad to buy Cisco now the SMART term based licensing is enforced and the switches need to call home to verify licensing, rather than Juniper which just keeps it simple and does the job well.

Interesting to once again note the scale of engineering in China. Vast majority of UK population won't have a clue how much of a financial threat China has become. And I mean that in a sensible way - they can make anything, at any scale, cheaper and faster than any other country.

Whilst I'm sorry for the individual people who will be made redundant, I'm not in any way surprised Orible is in trouble. They have failed to create anything genuinely new or original for years and just screw their customers - that has been proven to not be a good business model.

Well, this won't be popular here as you're all a bunch of apple hating andoid fan boys :) but Apple battery replacement for the iPhones is very reasonable. £69 for the very latest phones and £49 for older phones.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/iphone/repair/service/battery-power

A phone that doesn't use Android is very attractive. I'd never use Android, it's the most leaky and unsafe operating system going.

Somebody playing Google at their own game and they don't like it, they donl' like it up um !

Apple do not re-sell anything from AWS or Microsoft, they utilise a back-end service to support their iCloud product.

This is a fishing exercise to see if they can screw Apple.

Most people are too thick to understand the issue or even think about the issue and even if they did think about it and understand it, would be too lazy to do anything about it.

So make everybody use 2fa on every login in. Sorted.

Just get the older companies to hand back the large swathes of addressing they are sitting on. I know several companies which have /16s and use only about 500 addresses or so. You used to be able to get whatever you wanted with the RIPE justification form being a formality.

Or start charging for address space. £500k/month for a /8 on a sliding scale down to £5k/month for a /24. That would soon release space that's being sat on and those that need a /8 like ISPs, Microsoft, Google etc can easily afford a high cost because a /8 can enable generation of so huge revenue.

Probably licensing related. Somebody rebooted a core switch or router and they'd not renewed the licensing so some functionality was removed . . . because Cisco wants your recurring revenue.