Proof that software as service/cloud based, will never work for long term ...

[madires]

Microsoft's blatent nonsense is hilarious! Basically they complain that they couldn't do security by obscurity anymore, throwing a red herring to distract from their recent security disasters, and trying to lobby against EU's latest antitrust investigations. But all this doesn't change the fact that Microsoft does a very poor job regarding security.

[Karel]

Dont blame microsoft for  international  IT failure day ,don't blame crowdstrike, its all the fault of that pesky EU.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/07/22/microsoft-says-eu-to-blame-for-the-worlds-worst-it-outage

The European Commission spokesperson hit back at the accusations today, telling Euronews that "Microsoft is free to
decide on its business model. It is for Microsoft to adapt its security infrastructure to respond to threats in line with EU
competition law. Additionally, consumers are free to benefit from competition and choose between different cybersecurity providers."

The spokesperson also said that "the incident was not limited to the European Union and that Microsoft has never raised
any concerns about security with the Commission either before or after the incident."

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/07/23/european-commission-denies-responsibility-for-massive-microsoft-it-outage

[PA0PBZ]

Dont blame microsoft for  international  IT failure day ,don't blame crowdstrike, its all the fault of that pesky EU.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/07/22/microsoft-says-eu-to-blame-for-the-worlds-worst-it-outage

"Microsoft has Windows Defender, its in-house alternative to CrowdStrike"

Yes, a bike is also a way of transportation so why would you need a car?

[DimitriP]

CDK Global provides retail technology and software as a service (SaaS) solutions that help dealers run their businesses and drive profitability. CDK currently serves more than 15,000 retail locations in North America.

Most of the time, except the last few days !!!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdk-cyber-attack-outage-auto-dealerships-cbs-news-explains/

[Catching up after returning from vacation ....]


A few million  dollars later ....

https://www.spiceworks.com/it-security/data-security/news/cdk-global-outage-ended-after-paying-ransom/

[paulca]

TLDR:  "Cloud" is now considered a non-engineering, non-technical term in common usage.  It once "was" a credible engineering term, meaning "out of scope", but no longer is, due to populous/business pollution of terminology.

View Image .... the most simple textbook reproduction in SE101 of the cloud symbol.

Any attempt to describe the contents of the cloud are ... contrary to the symbol.  "Black box, in-out, don't care, don't need to care" = the cloud symbol

The trouble is.  A picture of a cloud on a diagram is overly romantic and overly emotionally provoking than we would hope.

It became a viral "business term".  "The more we can move into this "cloud" thing the better!".

We made our own bed I suppose.  "look what we can do!", "so you can do X?", "No.", "Okay great we can sell X tomorrow and you will figure it out okay?", "wait what?", "youll be fine itll happen if we believe"

If you are not catching on, the catch is... someone still needs to develop what happens in the cloud.  The diagram is meant to show the scope of the problem, not reality.  Any and all relationships between "the cloud" and it's many marketing BS are suspect these days as "the mass" understanding of the terms is now in common use in a flawed way.   Not like that is uncommon.

Other examples of stolen terms.
Hacker:  Someone who "hacks away" like a lumberjack never quitting until the wood is just right.
Media:  So like a cracker, criminal type who "hacks" banks.
Engineers:  No.  Not like that.
... 

/get off my f'ing lawn.

[paulca]

[MrMobodies]

I use to see adverts on Youtube starting with the lines "Business are moving to the cloud...".

I met an advisor early last year who said the same bullshit above, "There's no work for that here anymore as business are moving to the cloud and we just had our servers removed from this office so it's all on the cloud now."

I said yes but what you are going to do in an outage when either the service goes down or your broadband connections?
"We can't work but then it has nothing to do with us... etc".

[SiliconWizard]

When you want absolutely zero responsability, you get what you deserve. You become a puppet.