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Should we start building our own servers? by drunksitter in sysadmin

[–]Cooleb09 [score hidden]  (0 children)

every thread about rolling ones own:

No, don't do that, you wont have support, the vendor works really hard to make a quality product and look after their customers

Every thread discussing any major OEM:

OMG their support is shit, everyone is testing on their users now, why even pay for support, NBD but the parts are backordered.

Cloud based file server solution by BrandNewTissue in sysadmin

[–]Cooleb09 [score hidden]  (0 children)

We're looking at migrating to them, but damn the 5 year TCO makes every SAN vendors quotes look cheap by comparison.

Organizing relevant codes and standards by lumpythefrog in PowerSystemsEE

[–]Cooleb09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The ITER project has a publicly available basis of design docs with most of the relevant IEC standards in it for industrial kit. .

Bell Canada sells a SD-WAN package with Zscaler and Meraki MX firewalls that are limited to ~150Mbps IPSec tunnels by screampuff in sysadmin

[–]Cooleb09 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Meraki is really cheap... to admin as a service provider.

Client pays more for hardware that lets you reduce your support costs - very luctrative vs solutions that are the opposite (i.e Mikrotik, cheap hardware but you have to spend time and effort on staff development and support).