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  Juxtaposition rule…

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  “Private cloud” has always been a synonym for “on-premise”. I’ve managed Datacenter infrastructure for decades and always referred to it to on-premise before private cloud even became a term. It basically is referring to Datacenter space you own or rent vs another company’s servers and DCs. Hell, I’ve worked in companies where they had Datacenter space in the same building as their office (and not small either, one was 32 racks, another was almost 200). So that very much was “on-premise”

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  I see the approach of Outposts, just don’t know if I agree with it. Part of the point is it lets you have a dedicated, isolated, on-premise platform **without** the need to train existing engineers/admins on a secondary technology like Nutanix, ProxMox, etc. So your calculus should include the cost to rent vs dedicated head count (and let me tell you, companies fucking hate headcount). Now all that being said, I have yet to see a situation where it really is more cost effective, especially d...

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  IBM is in the business of consulting. They don’t want their business model getting usurped. Imagine if everyone had access to a bot that could do IBMs job. I don’t like AI, but this is one reason I can see him saying that.

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  Diabeetus….

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  So I still don’t get where it’s “forced”. I downloaded a 25H2 ISO a couple weeks ago and installed on a VM from scratch. I chose Work computer, and under other options “Domain Join”. It asked me to create a local account…. And that was it. The only thing I can think is it’s for “Home” editions, which you wouldn’t want to run anyway as that’s where all the testing crap goes.

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  I’m fine that people want to do it. I’m fine with the results of it. But man, I fucking hate that smell.

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  I don’t know which is worse. The joke, or the fact i groaned because I actually understood it.