The IT Skeptic - Comments for "Virtualization: the black box bomb"

Not petulant

Visitor — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:26:57 +0000

Hang on there! The system only existed because there was a business need. It was built by an IT guy, the business did not manage it or it's lifetime. The IT guy left - no-one said he sulked - lot's of guys just retire. It's a business problem. They took their quick satisfaction and then dropped it, it came back to bite, but they never managed it's lifetime. No? Why are you so cranky?

petulant

skeptic — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:56:56 +0000

You're being entirely unprofessional, as well as childish and petulant. IT is constantly faced with bad decisions by the business. these arise from poor communications on both sides, and a failure to understand IT which is a failure by both sides again.

Stomping off to sulk is not in the interests of the organisation that pays you.

That situation exists because...

Visitor — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:11:08 +0000

... IT 'resource' was snubbed by business. IT guy sat it out and then left. Business owns it now. Business problem from beginning to end - what's the business going to do? Tough titty I say.

you're lucky

supportthought — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:50:47 +0000

If you have managed to get this "black box" virtualized you are luckier than most, in many datacenters there is one cabinet that from the outside looks like any other....

but beware....

once you open it up there sits a (insert an old OS) server (or 4) no-one understands/knows the passwords/understands why they need modems, secretly the replacement hardware for this device is purchased via expenses over ebay, and when the row is required to be powered down for maintenence... a power cable appears to maintain this cabinet as no-one is sure the disks will spin up again.

Of course I joke, this wouldn't be possible in this day and age...