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Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs

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Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs

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Post by krasin »

krasin wrote: post #28
phillipwei wrote: post #26

I would suggest scanning through a few pages of OPs history to determine for yourself whether this is legit or not.

I tried to follow the advice. It's clearly someone who is working with computers and for a long time. The comments are touching various topics (from tech to society to random stuff) and it's likely that the person is behind a keyboard, not on a mobile phone: comments are rather long on average. That's quite compatible with sysadmin psychological profile. Hard to say for sure, but at least I am confident that the OP i…

On the other hand, this comment is sus: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/x0w8sz/it_vs_infr...

Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

mroche wrote: post #16

This is Reddit, so taking any claims with a severely hefty earth sized grain of salt.. > Odd part 1: ... moving large numbers of VMs (100,000-500,000) over to Linux based virtualization in very short time frames. > Odd part 4: Every one of these requests involves moving the VMs off VMWare or Hyper-V onto OpenShift, specifically. As a Solution Architect at Red Hat, no sane sales rep would ever recommend or propose mov…

If you read it carefully, it's very clear that the poster is talking about multiple customers, not just one.

A dozen or more companies (poster claims it's exactly 14) can move 100k-500k VMs in a short time frame, without killing anything.

Otherwise, your concern would have been spot on.

Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs

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Post by markild »

pinewurst wrote: post #2

What’s strange here is OpenShift as a target. The last I looked, VMs were just getting initial support - certainly not enough functionality or proving to encourage one to rehost 100k VMs onto it as a platform. Also why the assumption that IBM would treat them better than Broadcom/CA?

Though I do agree with your sentiment here, this saying comes to mind:

"Nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM".

Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs

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Post by ThePadawan »

recursv_thnkng wrote: post #14
spoonjim wrote: post #7

This definitely feels fake. Either just a fabulist or someone mad at VMware and wants to scare them. CEOs of Fortune 500 companies do not know about the Linux virtualization market.

Yeah this seems odd for a Fortune 500 company’s CEO asking specifically for Linux VMs. There’s not enough hours in the day where these CEOs would be so far down in the weeds of the business that they’re making VM flavor decisions.

I think you're underestimating how psychopathic CEOs are.

They might tell someone below them "we need Linux VMs, stat!" the same way they might say "We need to move everything onto the blockchain!", all depending on what they pick up at a conference or the golf course.

Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs

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Post by ciceryadam »

paganel wrote: post #29

For what it’s worth, I’ve heard that when the current war in Ukraine started the Moscow/Russian employees of a big US networking hardware company of which everyone on this forum has heard about had their access cut off instantly, as in the invasion started at around 2AM and when the employees tried to get to work that morning they found out they could no longer access the company’s resources. Which tells me that that…

2 AM Moscow time is 3 PM Pacific time - if they had someone working west coast times it could be done in regular working hours. Dropping users from their VPN LDAP group (or directly from the VPN servers) doesn't take long.

Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs

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Post by olavgg »

kramerger wrote: post #25
recursv_thnkng wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah this seems odd for a Fortune 500 company’s CEO asking specifically for Linux VMs. There’s not enough hours in the day where these CEOs would be so far down in the weeds of the business that they’re making VM flavor decisions.

I can actually see this happening. Obviously a fortune 500 CEO does not know jack about IT. But someone has raised the alarm on the price hike and presented a few possible solutions, that have reached all the way to the board. Given the high risk, tight schedule, and the amount of work something like this must be driven by the CEO (or at least directly sponsored by him) or it will not happen.

This is not from a fortune 500 company, but I know the CEO in a BIG oil & gas company and that CEO do in fact know a lot about IT & computer science. He is in fact a big fan of Neo4j, and gets really frustrated when he talk to software architects/developers that have never heard about neo4j or graph databases.

He also knows about Linux and license free virtualization. But making a move requires people, and people with Linux knowledge are very rare.

Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs

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Post by ghaff »

pabs3 wrote: post #22
mroche wrote: post #16

This is Reddit, so taking any claims with a severely hefty earth sized grain of salt.. > Odd part 1: ... moving large numbers of VMs (100,000-500,000) over to Linux based virtualization in very short time frames. > Odd part 4: Every one of these requests involves moving the VMs off VMWare or Hyper-V onto OpenShift, specifically. As a Solution Architect at Red Hat, no sane sales rep would ever recommend or propose mov…

So OpenShift virt replaces oVirt? What was the reason for dropping oVirt?

KubeVirt is the upstream. Essentially so there is common management/operational model between virtualization and containers rather than having a Kubernetes-based one and a largely independent virtualization one.

Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs

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Post by spoonjim »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #20
recursv_thnkng wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah this seems odd for a Fortune 500 company’s CEO asking specifically for Linux VMs. There’s not enough hours in the day where these CEOs would be so far down in the weeds of the business that they’re making VM flavor decisions.

As VMware is getting considerably more expensive it's reasonable to assume some CEOs are aware of that. It would be enough if one or two of them for one reason for another googled "cheap virtualization" or talked to some "tech guy" and somehow "Linux is cheap/free and can do virtualization" is what stuck with them. Then they talk to their friends at the golf club and after a while the topic reaches critical mass in t…

There are close to 0 Fortune 500 CEOs who would be DIRECTLY reaching out to Linux virtualization companies. There could easily be a CEO who convenes a meeting with the CIO and COO to "Find 10% savings on operational software costs" but the idea that they are directly reaching out to vendors is one of those "tell me you've never worked with a Fortune 500 C-suite without telling me that you've never worked with a Fortune 500 C-suite" memes.
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