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

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Post by retcore »

olavgg wrote: post #37
kramerger wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 wit…

Data science and tools are especially critical to oil and gas management. Including downstream: refineries are built for the qualities of available discovery and take as long to plan. Anticipating the availability, extraction costs and chemistry of a new deposit is a major advantage to anyone in the industry. I was given, cold, a six figure number of barrels of Kazakh crude to market, three years before the standard blend was assessed. That was fun...

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

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Post by zhdc1 »

Datagenerator wrote: post #27
sofixa wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We are working on making OpenShift Virtualization as capable as we can (considering we're killing the Red Hat Virtualization product [upstream project: oVirt]) but it's not really meant, especially right now, to be a VMware replacemen Didn't know RHEV was being killed. It makes sense, the enterprise virtualisation market is shrinking by the day, but it's still a bummer there's less competition. Is oVirt being maint…

For LXC and VM's one might consider Proxmox as counterbalance to the VMware walled garden.

Second Proxmox. While our footprint is likely much smaller than many of the other folks on here, it's been a life saver for managing LXCs.

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

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Post by the_gipsy »

sceptically wrote: post #18

I am struggeling so hard... IT departments of two customer companies just moved VMs with a one week deadline to Azure and everything stopped working and I have the responsibility as external developer... Weird SSL errors I have no clue how to fix. I think they are talking about my clients in this reddit post.

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

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Post by rejectfinite »

andrenotgiant wrote: post #6

Fantasy fiction of a sysadmin that uses anonymity on the internet to craft themselves into someone more important than they are in real life.

The hate for IT/sysadmins here is funny. The above would of course never happen here or if they where a dev!

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

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Post by dredmorbius »

jollybean wrote: post #45
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…

Yeah, I think the hint is that something is going on here. Like possibly a national security issue of some kind. 'We' are at 'war' with Russia, after all.

I've no information on what's going on, or even if anything's going on. Other than today's SEC announcement of fraud findings: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/12/the-sec-revealed-today-tha...>

That said, I'd keep an eye on any future 0-day announcements ... if there's anything here, it has that kind of smell about it.

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

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Post by jiggawatts »

sceptically wrote: post #18

I am struggeling so hard... IT departments of two customer companies just moved VMs with a one week deadline to Azure and everything stopped working and I have the responsibility as external developer... Weird SSL errors I have no clue how to fix. I think they are talking about my clients in this reddit post.

> Weird SSL errors

Wild stab in the dark: the only things that would kill SSL/TLS on a disk-image based lift & shift where the certificates and associated config moves with the VM are:

- An internal Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Distribution Point (CDP) was forgotten about and not moved along with everything else. These are often Enterprise PKI certificate authorities on servers like AD domain controllers. Admins will typically deploy new domain controllers in the cloud, and move everything else. They'll forget the old CAs and maybe even turn them off. This then causes SSL issues after... about a week.

- Another possibility is that they incorrectly moved an outbound access restriction. Again, overzealous network security admins tend to block Internet access on servers and forget about CRLs. It's an especially common issue on "secure" environments where someone decides to block HTTP outbound and only permit HTTPS because it's "secure". However, CRLs (and OCSP) absolutely require HTTP and will never work via HTTPS by design.

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

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Post by margarina72 »

AyyWS wrote: post #17
andrenotgiant wrote: post #6

Fantasy fiction of a sysadmin that uses anonymity on the internet to craft themselves into someone more important than they are in real life.

I lived through EMC's VMware tightening their grip, killing off our vendor "reflex firewall" by restricting their use of network APIs (to boost their Nicira acquisition which became NSX), then making us pay the vRAM vtax as part of the VSPP program (public cloud), and launching project Zephyr (vCloud Air) where they directly competed with us. RIP VMware. Been getting Novell vibes from them for the last 10 years.

Novell... Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time

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

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Post by mhio »

markild wrote: post #33
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".

... most of the time =)

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/newman-still-considering-lega...

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

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Post by doubled112 »

zhdc1 wrote: post #52
Datagenerator wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For LXC and VM's one might consider Proxmox as counterbalance to the VMware walled garden.

Second Proxmox. While our footprint is likely much smaller than many of the other folks on here, it's been a life saver for managing LXCs.

Another Proxmox vote here, even if I'm also small scale.

Proxmox has been solid and near problem free for our simple deployment

As far as Linux system containers go, is the landscape still raw LXC, LXD, and Proxmox?

LXD snap had caused some issues for me. I didn't have any issues with it when it was packaged as a distribution package. Plus I briefly considered it again when VM management came out, but Proxmox still won over it.

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