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

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Post by no-reply » Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 3:53 PM UTC

rejectfinite wrote: post #54

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!

*were ?

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

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Post by qwertyuiop_ » Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 5:09 PM UTC

They know something you don’t. That’s how most people make money. In all seriousness this appears to be cost cutting. They sat down with their CTOs and asked give me a list of cost cutting measures right down to the bone. The CTO says boss we pay for windows licenses, we could move to Linux and save a zillions of $$. CEO says “what are you waiting for do I have to tell you to get a new toilet roll if you run out of one ?”

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

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Post by kornhole » Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 5:25 PM UTC

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…

I know of another SW company that did the same thing. Everybody at the company was then told not to contact or communicate with any of the employees in Russia. Then one of the executives told everybody that it was a vendor who was providing the remote access solution who pulled out of the country in a blame shift we saw right through.

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

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Post by kornhole » Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 5:28 PM UTC

This is a possibility when pushing companies from perpetual licenses onto subscription and then upping their subscriptions. Wall street is heavily pressing SW companies to increase their ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) or some call it, you will own nothing and be happy. Switching to free software is looking more appealing at the enterprise level.

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

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Post by iforgotpassword » Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 6:43 PM UTC

spoonjim wrote: post #40

iforgotpassword wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 Fortu…

Nowhere in my post did I suggest CEOs reaching out to "Linux virtualization companies" themselves. Even the linked reddit post doesn't. It's talking about CEOs ordering someone/some team from their company to contact a tech consulting company to figure out whether switching to Linux based virtualization would be feasible.

CEOs hearing about some stuff and immediately jumping on it and ordering someone to look into it is quite common.

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

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Post by dredmorbius » Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 11:17 PM UTC

jollybean wrote: post #70

dredmorbius wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's what I mean. And because it's CEOs and not CTOs it's likely a Zero-Day related to something geopolitical. The West is at war, my downvoting detractors are naive to not contemplate that the world's #2 Army is not running shenanigans as they have literally publicly stated they would, and we have direct evidence to support it. And literally Biden gov. urging US businesses to 'patch up' at the start of the war. Th…

That's close to my read, though again, based on a report of undetermined validity and circumstantial information only.

So: heightened alertness, but not immediate panic.

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

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Post by jiggawatts » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 3:15 AM UTC

jb_s wrote: post #72

jiggawatts wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Azure stopped supporting TLS 1.1 recently as well. If these are old systems, it could be this... if they're running .NET apps compiled against framework pre... 4.7? 4.8? TLS ain't gonna work...

They would only be affected by the Azure TLS changes if they already used Azure APIs while on-prem, which would be unusual for an on-prem-to-cloud lift & shift.