@scottalanmiller said:

That baby does L3 routing at 4Gb/s wire speed. This is not a system that is playing around.

You're saying this USG-PRO-4 performs real good (that might be incorrect grammar)

For folks that use this as an "edge" device, what else do you have downstream for "UTM" (using this term loosely) or "protection"?

That's why I was asking if it had some "UTM" vs being a straight up firewall

@scottalanmiller said:

@FATeknollogee said:

Can anyone confirm that this box is a "UTM"?

They don't even call it a firewall. I believe it is just a standard router with standard firewall features. I doubt that it is an UTM in any way. Which is a good thing, UTMs are generally a bad idea. At least that is @JaredBusch and my opinion.

They sure do call it a firewall

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching-routing/unifi-security-gateway-pro-4/

The USG-PRO-4 says "The UniFi Security Gateway offers advanced firewall policies to protect your network and its data."
I've read through the manual & find no mention of these firewall features.

Can anyone confirm that this box might have some "UTM" in it? (edited original question)

@DustinB3403 this is a kinda "what if" question..
Let's say the client asked to pay for this project on a monthly basis to save cash (vs spending a lump sum)
What/how would you charge 'em?

Ready & waiting for lesson # 2: Linux: The Lay of the Land, Filesystem Herarchy

sub'd...
VM installed...
ready for the next class

Why choose one over the other?

I use TeamViewer, should I be looking/trialing SC?

@scottalanmiller said:

None of this is to suggest that the physical LAN network of an office will go away or that we will not attempt to secure it (firewall, UTM, etc.) It is that we will stop thinking of it as a secure place to dump data willy nilly. And once we treat the LAN as a dangerous place like the Internet, suddenly we are not tied down to it any longer either.

This was going to be my next question.
If I understand correctly, the firewall/UTM/"insert fav mode" concept still exists & is valid.
The old school "on prem" services (AD, File Shares, email) that were heavy on LAN kinda go away

@scottalanmiller says "This goes against my recent writings that the LAN is a legacy concept and being phased out for security and flexibility reasons. In the California IT scene, the LAN is already not the norm. The east coast IT scene is much more traditional, but as the LAN becomes increasingly unnecessary I see "enterprise" very much not the term for this model. Enterprises are the ones best equipped to move to more modern structural models."

The world is becoming a "smaller" place, where physical boundaries no longer restrictive.
What is the next gen "connect" should we looking at?

A huge part of this problem is XS | Hyper-V | etc. have all done a piss-poor job of messaging & letting folks know about the value they bring.

Example, XS has a Tech Preview that "supports" SMB3. You can only get access to this preview if you have existing retail licenses.

Why make it tougher for anyone to try a product?

Why was this distro chosen?

@RamblingBiped @johnhooks Thx for the links

@scottalanmiller said:

If you want to learn for business and career, CentOS is the place to start. Download CentOS 7, get a book because that has the best coverage of concepts, install in VirtualBox and go to town.

Any book recommendations?

Say you're a Windows guy..

You'd like to learn some Linux...for doing File Servers, Storage boxes, some enterprise stuff etc...

CentOS | Debian | Ubuntu | Gentoo....

Is there an easy/simple place to get your feet wet? aka "Linux for Dummies"

Just don't ask me to switch my desktop, that stays on Windows 10

Any one have an idea of pricing on Giva@ ?
Giv@

@wrx7m So far, mainly in downtown LA.
I've visited http://www.quadranet.com
I'm leaning toward this Tier 4 datacenter https://www.psychz.net/colocation.html

@wrx7m said:

I guess I was thinking more of a power/climate and fire/flood perspective for up time. I don't like to travel or drive outside of my local area (LA traffic is the worst). But I may just look at offloading some things to VPC and more into Veeam Cloudconnect.

Does anyone know anything about ISWest? http://isle.net/colocation/

I looked at ISWest.
Base monthly co-lo fees are low, but they charge for bandwidth & they have some insurance requirements.

I can always send you the proposal I have.