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Re: Show HN: Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service

#4

Post by arianvanp »

So, contract work for running infrastructure? "Managed DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure As a Service" is a very buzzywordy and bloated way to describe that. It almost sounds like a parody.

Why not just: "We build and maintain IT infrastructure for your company"

Re: Show HN: Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service

#5

Post by nodesocket »

arianvanp wrote: post #4

So, contract work for running infrastructure? "Managed DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure As a Service" is a very buzzywordy and bloated way to describe that. It almost sounds like a parody. Why not just: "We build and maintain IT infrastructure for your company"

Well, the general IT term include services like printers, faxes, office phone systems, WiFi, etc. I wanted to clarify we specifically focus on cloud infrastructure.

Re: Show HN: Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service

#6

Post by shubhamjain »

From my understanding of DevOps, it's one of those things that is impossibly difficult to outsource, just like Product Management. On surface the output is merely specifications, and product sketches but there are plenty of things including foreseeing execution, customer development, and measurement that needs to be covered to add real value.

Can you really implement processes, see response of team towards them, enforce practices, monitor everything without being part of the team?

Re: Show HN: Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service

#7

Post by ddorian43 »

nodesocket wrote: post #5
arianvanp wrote: post #4

So, contract work for running infrastructure? "Managed DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure As a Service" is a very buzzywordy and bloated way to describe that. It almost sounds like a parody. Why not just: "We build and maintain IT infrastructure for your company"

Well, the general IT term include services like printers, faxes, office phone systems, WiFi, etc. I wanted to clarify we specifically focus on cloud infrastructure.

It's not "as a service", it's "as a contractor"

Re: Show HN: Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service

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Post by nodesocket »

shubhamjain wrote: post #6

From my understanding of DevOps, it's one of those things that is impossibly difficult to outsource, just like Product Management. On surface the output is merely specifications, and product sketches but there are plenty of things including foreseeing execution, customer development, and measurement that needs to be covered to add real value. Can you really implement processes, see response of team towards them, enfo…

You bring up great points, and I think it really depends on the organization and how far along they are. Typically we like to focus on smaller companies (let's say handfuls of employees), heads down in product development. Usually for them, outsourcing infrastructure scale, uptime, performance, and security makes sense.

Second, we've found another good vertical are design and website agencies. Almost always they don't have anybody doing professional ops, yet they have contracts to build and host large websites with millions of pageviews a month. They tend to also be good fits.

Re: Show HN: Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service

#9

Post by nodesocket »

ddorian43 wrote: post #7
nodesocket wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, the general IT term include services like printers, faxes, office phone systems, WiFi, etc. I wanted to clarify we specifically focus on cloud infrastructure.

It's not "as a service", it's "as a contractor"

I actually intentionally structured and publically list pricing which is against what nearly every other consulting or enterprise sales company does. Pricing is uniform across all clients, and each client belongs to a given plan. I'd say our model fits a service more than traditional consulting.
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