On 5/14/2022 3:24 PM, fcewen00 wrote:
Mainframe and cloud are similar yet different in my mind. ?Cloud is more the bastard red headed of mainframe. ?The two things that mainframes need are space and people to keep an eye on it. ?Cloud is a lot different, depending on what flavor you buy. ?Depending on the flavor you buy, you can go from a large team of admins and engineers and sysadmins to just one troll living in the basements. ?It really comes down to how much of your stuff and responsibilities you are willing to give up.
The problem is that the decision makers in management don't understand the part about the "how much of your stuff" you are willing to give up, but do understand "can cut the IT department down to just a couple of guys".
So they see the up side, saving labor costs, and don't understand what they are giving up, so of course they go for it because it can't be that important, just a bunch of technobabble.
Then when the problems happen because they lost control of their data storage, they blame the remaining IT drones even though the actual IT people argued against it. That is if they were even consulted. Salesmen for companies selling IT services and products often make every effort to go over the head of the IT department's head if he actually is a technician or programmer rather than just a manager in order to make a deal because they can usually bamboozle a manager, but not so much a tech).
Then when Management sees the IT people arguing against the measure that would mean layoffs or budget cuts, they assume the techs are just trying to save their jobs or funding and all the technical reasons they don't understand are just them trying to B.S. their way to saving their jobs/funding.
Sorry, I'm a bit cynical about salesmen and managers.
