Headline: The Great Cloud Reversal: Why IT Teams Are Moving Back to Dedicated Infrastructure

Quote: "The greatest surprise was that 42% of IT pros said they were migrating workloads back from public cloud to dedicated servers"

https://www.itprotoday.com/hybrid-cloud/the-great-cloud-reversal-why-it-teams-are-moving-back-to-dedicated-infrastructure

#Cloud
#Infrastructure
#OnPrem

AI-Generated Music Is Starting to Crowd Out the Real Stuff on Streaming Platforms

https://futurism.com/ai-music-lofi-streaming

#music #streaming #technology #tech #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #genai

Time to go back to physical media and on prem!

It's really interesting to see a company report they are saving millions in storage fees alone by moving *from* AWS to on-prem, considering so many companies were influenced to move to AWS to begin with because of Netflix's articles many years ago about the money they saved on storage costs moving *to* AWS.

#cloud #aws #devops #onprem #datacenter

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/09/37signals_cloud_repatriation_storage_savings/

Hello Old Friend, Talos II

This was my first IBM POWER9 system, acquired in 2020 and built for home/desk use. Dual socket SMT4 Sforza, 144 threads, 256-512GB RAM, various storage/net/accelerators over the years. [1]

As expected, I fell in love and acquired four IBM Power System L922-2U [2], which are presently in the colo awaiting network rebuild (remote hands this time).

The Talos II has served a variety of purposes, with most of its time running FreeBSD PPC64le (&a bit of PPC64be for fun). Sometimes also Linux, back when I was tearing into qemu code for compiler optimization hypothesis testing, RTX GPU passthrough, +validating assumptions about qemu on P9/le handling amd64 & arm64 emulation.

So, out of storage! Into the rack! New user accounts! But first it needs updated OS drives (the 3x 64GB SATADOM in Raid-Z1 need to be repurposed), and a NIC (25G-DP CX-5 or X710-DA4).

- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#Raptor_Computing_Systems_/_Raptor_Engineering
- [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#IBM

@dexter electricity comes next

I'm going to stray from my usual content here and actually like something: I got my JetKVM devices and finally had a chance to try them, and they are VERY, VERY GOOD. Like good enough I want to talk about them for a while.

The extensions for things like ATX control are shipping later for some "production is complicated" reason and I'm really looking forward to seeing what the extensions I ordered can do. The extension port is just a serial port and since the software is all FOSS you can in theory build an extension to do anything, including potentially plugging into a KVM with buttons and driving it directly.... which I find insanely appealing, but I don't homelab enough to justify the time and effort. Someone really should do this, though.

You can even customize the HDMI EDID this thing advertises! Hoping I might be able to leverage this to get it to work on some of the more obscure hardware it won't work on (yet). (In fairness, I've yet to find a IP KVM that works on my camera NVR.)

I also have a Sipeed nanoKVM which works OK, but the software is much clunkier and is a bit of a security nightmare out of the box (literally has ssh root with no password, and no part of the docs or the setup process prompts you to change it.) It's arguably "more" hackable hardware, since the hardware is just so simplistic, but the JetKVMs are vastly nicer build quality and it's all still FOSS that runs them anyway. Unless you need a solution that is absolutely barebones cheap I would not recommend the nanoKVM.

JetKVM hardware is not OSHW, but they do provide a bunch of niceties like a 3D model of their device so you can build cases or mounts or whatevs.

If no one's done a teardown of one of these I might tear down one of mine just to do it & see what's inside.

Disclaimer: JetKVM is a YC venture but I'm trying not to hold that against them. It's good, good shit.

I don't do much in the way of enterprise on-prem anymore (I guess that might change) but I'm hoping they build a larger, more enterprise class hardware option that uses off-the-shelf stuff (Raritan sips, maybe?) because they could own the enterprise market overnight with an enterprise product with the same quality as their small-scale product.

I was laid off on Monday. Going to miss that team fiercely and I wish them all the best!

Anyone looking for a remote infra software eng/ #devops who likes working on platforms? I've most recently worked with #kubernetes, #terraform, #golang, and #puppet , in a #hybrid environment between #onprem and #cloud #infrastructure , spanning 4 continents. I've built out and maintained clusters throughout their lifecycles, architected and built out tooling and automation, and integrated with service-owning teams, all to ship reliable and secure products to market.

wow no wonder I was struggling with only 16GB of ram in this box. That upgrade to 48GB turned out to be conservative

UPGRADE! This server now has 48GB of RAM!!

"Nobody ever got fired for buying ~~IBM~~ cloud."

I just do not understand #cloud based #siem for any organization over 1000 employees. #Ingress / #egress costs are ridiculous compared to the #engineers and #onprem system. Managers who are blinded by a drive to only look at cloud are short sighted.

The "#cloud " extorting more and more their customers... Nothing new. But it gets more and more dramatic. #onprem

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd114lllyp6o

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Aha, I get it now: the GenAI enshittification of cloud services like Slack, StackOverflow, Google, Discord, MSFT, and all the rest is a conspiracy by lonely SysAdmins who miss the old days of running IT equipment in-house and are pushing a return to on-prem

It. All. Makes. Sense.

Experiment comparing reactions across social media platforms ...

One or more of #Fortran or #FP64 or #onprem #hpc will be obsolete by 2030.

Ignoring this message counts as agreeing :-)

Over the past decade, there's been a big push to put everything on "the Cloud"; essentially outsourcing your IT infrastructure to someone else, and accessing your data and applications remotely. But with data breaches and outages on the rise, is that really the best policy for you?
https://jaykayenn.com/posts/why-on-premises-vs-cloud
#hosting #cloud #onprem #privacy #ITsecurity

another on-premise bare-metal cluster build for 2024!

greater than five but fewer than ten Ampere Altra Q80-30 servers will be combined with Xeon based hosts of mostly-equivalent specs (dual-socket 8280 and E5-2697v4 hosts), 768GB - 1TB of RAM per each, and NICs w/ multiple 10, 25, and 100GbE ports depending on system role. switches are all Arista.

should be an enjoyable deployment!

#SymLink: Stephen Foskett and IT experts explore the struggle of current hardware systems to support modern workloads, debating the need for specialized hardware and integrated innovation with software in the On-Premise IT Podcast. @GestaltIT @sfoskett #CFD19 #Cloud #HybridCloud #OnPrem
https://gestaltit.com/podcast/stephen/hardware-cant-keep-up-with-software/