Hey budz, many around here have 20+ years of experience.
I've fought all my career to get "enterprise" folks to understand that spending $100s of mill on hardware vendors and 3rd party software is madness, if what you are doing is actually mission critical.
Money should be spend on acquiring talent and adapting to actual business needs.
The business you support could not care less about your shiny toys, they want to transform, and probably yesteryear!
A digression here, from one of your other posts: if your business applications rely on live migration of vm's, you're doing it wrong.
You should take this up with your CIO or even better the CTO, but he's probably busy looking at Gartner magic quadrants and contemplating the dire need of a blockchain.
Keep an open mind, and keep it simple. Best advice ever in this crazy business!
plenty of talent, and for stability and performance all that talent spends millions of dollars on top of the line proven solutions. Applications rely on live migrations for load balancing a farm, and it happens automatically in the background around the clock to rebalance farms. Hardware maintenance is another use case. So is a bucket of water. So is change control - I want to load new HBA firmware? I'll evacuate the ESX to somewhere else first.
no one contemplates blockchain, but for someone CIO level, gartner quadrants present a quick high-level summary of where the industry is going. and $100mil+ for hardware is completely normal to run things that process billions of dollars. The US treasury department is a great example. Mastercard is another.
I've fought all my career to get "enterprise" folks to understand that spending $100s of mill on hardware vendors and 3rd party software is madness, if what you are doing is actually mission critical.
Money should be spend on acquiring talent and adapting to actual business needs.
The business you support could not care less about your shiny toys, they want to transform, and probably yesteryear!
A digression here, from one of your other posts: if your business applications rely on live migration of vm's, you're doing it wrong. You should take this up with your CIO or even better the CTO, but he's probably busy looking at Gartner magic quadrants and contemplating the dire need of a blockchain.
Keep an open mind, and keep it simple. Best advice ever in this crazy business!