I barely have time to get caught up with Mangolassi every day, and now I have another community that needs attention as well!

@dafyre said in Five Horrifying IT Habits to Break:

@scottalanmiller said in Five Horrifying IT Habits to Break:

@dafyre said in Five Horrifying IT Habits to Break:

@scottalanmiller said in Five Horrifying IT Habits to Break:

@scale said in Five Horrifying IT Habits to Break:

5 – Over-Provisioning
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I refer this... http://www.smbitjournal.com/2012/10/you-arent-gonna-need-it/

It's important to figure out where the line is between planning for a little growth and flat out over provisioning.

@dafyre said in Five Horrifying IT Habits to Break:

@scottalanmiller said in Five Horrifying IT Habits to Break:

@scale said in Five Horrifying IT Habits to Break:

5 – Over-Provisioning
..........

I refer this... http://www.smbitjournal.com/2012/10/you-arent-gonna-need-it/

It's important to figure out where the line is between planning for a little growth and flat out over provisioning.

It's a combination of the cone of uncertainty combined with early investment. Even if you knew 100% that you'd need twice as much capacity in five years, still wouldn't make sense to buy it today.

Right. But if I'm already using 1.9 of 2TB of storage, it would make more sense to upgrade to 3TB or 4TB rather than make a huge jump to 9TB or 12 TB just because we predict that kind of growth even 3 years out.

Can't answer that without looking at cost differences, projected growth, etc.

SDX Central wrote about the deal as well: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/google-scale-unite-hci-google-cloud-platform/2017/09/

Scott Lowe at VMware even blogged about it: https://blogs.vmware.com/feed-items/scale-computing-hc3-cloud-unity-seeks-to-tear-down-infrastructure-and-application-walls/

Outside of tech, the deal is being talked about by the likes of Business Inside and Forbes:

http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/Scale-Computing-Collaborates-with-Google-Cloud-to-Remove-Barriers-to-Cloud-Computing-with-Hybrid-Cloud-MobilityHC3-Cloud-Unity-combines-Scale-HC3-and-Google-Cloud-Platform-on-the-same-LAN-allowing-1002732170

https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2017/09/28/scale-computing-gets-cloudy-with-google/

I've been on 7.3 for a while, it's been great. Loving the user controls, what a difference that has made for us.

Good work @scale!

Wish I had a client that could use a setup.

@wrx7m said in Change is Difficult. Implementation can be Easy.:

Which hypervisor does Scale use?

KVM