Re: We need a scale of cloud sizes
And a bit like when Labour left a note saying "I'm afraid to tell you there is no money left". Oh and Blair's abuse of PFI, that's been the gift that keeps giving.
Posts by ManMountain1
79 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Sep 2016
AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office
Everyone's doing it: PayPal sends 2,000 workers packing
Thursday 2nd February 2023 10:38 GMT
Re: Back to normal?
Not necessarily true but you do need a well devised and data driven process. We unfortunately had to make some people redundant a couple of years ago and went through a very thorough scoring exercise across about 15 attributes / behaviours which was also peer reviewed. One of the people who was made redundant had been the top performer against quota the year before but I am very confident in the process and genuinely think it was fair.
Inadequate IT partly to blame for NHS doctors losing 13.5 million working hours
AWS says it will cloudify your mainframe workloads
Banks talk big cloud game but few have migrated over 30% of apps
COVID-19 was a generational opportunity for change at work – and corporate blew it
Thursday 20th January 2022 09:45 GMT
Anecdotally, it feels like most companies have made some fairly fundamental changes. I know we have. Our offices have been redesigned to be more about collaboration, there doesn't seem to be any pending pressure to drag people into the office for the sake of it and it feels like we will have a genuinely hybrid approach moving forward. I don't know a single person who doesn't like it either ... if people want to be in the office every day they can be, but most people will settle around the 2-3 days a week I reckon. And as others have said, it gives a lot more flexibility in terms of recruitment. I've made 2 hires during the pandemic and whereas I would have been looking exclusively in the south east, I have hired someone living in Scotland and one in the south west.
UK's Labour Party calls for delay to NHS Digital's GP data slurp until patients can be properly informed
Tuesday 8th June 2021 07:52 GMT
Re: They don't make it easy.
"GP practices are funded by the NHS, which is in turn funded from the public purse. That's a very strange definition of a private company!"
By your definition there has been no privatisation of the NHS then as any private companies providing services to the NHS are funded by the NHS and in turn from the public purse. I will add, there hasn't actually been that much, certainly not as much as Labour would have you believe ... but there has been some.
Tuesday 8th June 2021 06:56 GMT
For me, 1 massively over-rules 2. It's incredible to me that this hasn't been done years ago. We should have been analysing the crap out of medical data for years and who knows how many people could have been saved. Privacy is a secondary issue to me, especially given who we already give our data to. This at least has a greater good.
Deloitte settled HPE's Autonomy lawsuit for $45m back in 2016 and agreed to cooperate with US DoJ
Everything you need to know about the HPE v Mike Lynch High Court case
We didn't collude with Twitter to throw Parler off our servers, says AWS in court filing
Thursday 14th January 2021 09:03 GMT
My uneasiness with this situation is not the fact that AWS banned Parler, they are in their rights to decide who sits on their platform. But what it does highlight is that the cloud providers more than just deciding who sits on their platform, actually decide who exists at all. How many orgs that have gone big on public cloud could survive being thrown off their 'infrastructure' at almost no notice? Pretty much anyone can buy hardware, short of being on a pretty obvious denied parties list, and do what they want with it. The legality of what they do is enforced by the law makers, not the hardware providers. This really highlights the total lack of control companies have with public cloud. You're literally using someone else's computer! If they don't like it (even if it's legal) then they can pull the plug. In the current cancel culture, the reasoning might be fairly vague too.
Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting
Tuesday 12th January 2021 09:22 GMT
There are as many dangerous idiots on Twitter as there are on Parler. The fact that 98 messages (what is that even as a %? Must be tiny) were deemed to illegal is being used as an excuse to shut down a platform that is overwhelming inhabited by 'normal' people who happen to occupy the right (not the far right) of the political spectrum. Most of the stuff on there is the same stuff (and largely the same people as the mass exodus didn't happen, people just ended up on both) that you see on other platforms but it just happens to be more of a right wing echo chamber than the left wing echo chamber that is Twitter.
When humans return to the Moon in '2024', HPE would like us to remember: We built the computer that simmed this
Thursday 19th November 2020 12:57 GMT
Re: Except that they didn't have anything to do with any of this
What are you on about? They are talking about the Aitken supercomputer that IS from HPE and is doing the sims NOW. Admittedly it probably originated from Cray but they have an HPE badge on them now. Your post seems like an irrelevant bitter rant.
Samsung throws more frugal followers a bone* with cheaper Galaxy S20 Fanboi Fan Edition
UK.gov shakes hands on cloud agreement with 'non-cloud service provider' HPE
HPE's Azure Stack Hub future 'in doubt' as US staff canned, SimpliVity team cut, India picks up the pieces
HPE's GreenLake remade with fresh set of cloud services as biz starts move to aaS future
UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won't work well, asks for your location, may be illegal
Dell to unleash hybrid server/storage boxen that can run virtual machines
Rolls-Royce leads data analytics alliance with its sights set on COVID-19 economic recovery
Huawei rotating Chairman: Chinese government will not 'just stand by and watch Huawei be slaughtered'
Former Autonomy boss Mike Lynch 'submits himself' for arrest in central London
Accounting expert told judge Autonomy was wrong not to disclose hardware sales
HPE may as well have stayed at home in bed: Biz turns non-profit as sales fall, costs rise
Oh good. This'll go well. Amazon's Alexa will offer NHS advice
Thursday 11th July 2019 12:27 GMT
Alexa is just a glorified search engine. Most of us probably google our symptoms trying to self-diagnose anyway. Not always a good idea but we do. Don't even see why this is news, to be honest. It's just another portal for the health paranoid and whether you type something in, or ask Alexa verbally, they will have your data. If you don't like that, don't ask.
Weak AF array sales at NetApp leave analysts feeling cold
Friday 24th May 2019 14:50 GMT
Re: End of storage coming
You will see almost all companies going hybrid but the cloud reverse claim, in my experience, is largely an urban myth. Many, even large orgs, false started on their cloud journey but are focused on getting it right rather than reversing it. Almost all orgs are in agreement that hybrid will prevail but there is still a cloud first mentality, and it's gathering pace.
So close yet so far: Pure fingers manufacturing balls-up for leaving firm $20m wide of its target
Cloud giants, enterprise refreshes keep storage market poppin': Global sales up 20% in Q3
Tax the tech giants and ISPs until the bits squeak – Corbyn
Do you NVMe? Pure Storage smirks at rivals amid 34% sales surge
I predict a riot: Amazon UK chief foresees 'civil unrest' for no-deal Brexit
Slow-mo Tintri train-crash continues: Firm shuts up shop across Europe
Tuesday 10th July 2018 12:27 GMT
Re: Violin Systems - REDUX
They were still losing money on May 21st, and at an increasing rate:
"The company reported first-quarter net losses of $64.3 million, or 29 cents a share, compared with net losses of $57.2 million, or 28 cents a share, in the year-ago period."
I'm pretty sure I have heard them say that they have cash for acquisitions though.
Array with you: Hitachi's Vantara begins rip-and-replace rampage
Thursday 10th May 2018 10:23 GMT
"Hitachi Vantara's VSP is one of three classic big iron arrays; the others being Dell EMC's PowerMax, IBM's DS8000 and Infinidat's Infinibox" ... Infinidat is classic big iron??
Reminds me of Blackadder:
Blackadder:
I leapt on the opportunity to test you. I asked if he'd been to one of the great universities: Oxford, Cambridge, Hull. You failed to spot that only two of those are great universities!
Melchett:
That's right! Oxford's a complete dump!
Dell EMC PowerBricks VMAX... um, yeah, it's called PowerMax now
HPE swallows cloud consultancy RedPixie
From far from good to good from AFA: Flash array floggers jostle for position
Monday 9th April 2018 16:32 GMT
This really is a nonsense table. An array is an array - why do we differentiate between AFA, hybrid and non-AFA when they all basically do the same thing, just some do it faster. They're not different markets these days. These are all general purpose storage arrays. Especially puzzling is the way some vendors are broken down by family but others aren't?
Enterprise storage sitrep: The external array party is over
As HPE trousers soaring profit, new CEO looks at cost-cutting Next plan and thinks: More of that!
Friday 23rd February 2018 16:44 GMT
Re: If your only tool is a hammer...
"I believe Q1 is a solid proof point that shows we are doing the right things. But there's still more work to do. We remain focused on executing our strategy, driving HPE Next and continue to introduce innovative products and services our customers are looking for." ... no mention of cost cutting. Poor journalism by The Reg!
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