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one convenience is the licensing is all under one vendor, thankfully still have a couple of years to reevaluate for the next refresh cycle, the big problem now will be all the big players are either subscription or making a big push to public cloud.
reliable tech, just thinking of parallel...
Given the budget/opportunity I'd have NetApp/Purestorage or the likes, unfortunately budget limitations push to the cheaper option as it has a much higher ROI off the initial investment.
on a Pure X20 a few years ago i was seeing on average 5:1 and still hitting decent response time...
FC was great until certain HP switches needed licencing for more than 8 ports 🤔 FCoE took over and the FC can't keep up with the speeds that FCoE can provide now.
HCI is great, need space? just chuck more cheap hardware to tie you over.
with HCI we're squeezing 40 x 3.1G cores 1.2Tb of ram and...
Public cloud for 90% of business is tragic, data egress, we'll charge extra for that, cpu pinned at 100% because a junior made a bad config update, charge for that.
What with the state of Broadcom/VMware mess at the moment, moving back to on prem or at least private cloud may be the move over...
We've recently taken up Stripe and gocardless, Stripe we're utilising for one off payments and Gocardless for direct debit's for recurring, both accept single transactions but stripe is tailored more towards Mastercard/Visa
It's terrible software, been tasked by a new customer i'm onboarding to do a dabble of security testing.
5 minutes on the phone now have a users logins, as soon as out off hours hits into the system, pop off a few sketchy powershell scripts querying data and uploading to eastern european based...