Gartner's #1 money saving tip: ditch your contractors

[swamp]

Contractor UK's 20 ways of cutting spelling and gramatical mistakes in Gartner's cr4ppy article:

6.

Don't ignore "unmanaged" costs like printers or data center power. Specially DC Power.

Especially.

[beaker]

Contractor UK's 20 ways of cutting spelling and gramatical mistakes in Gartner's carppy article:

6.



Especially.

More American management bulltulip speak...

"strategize ways to save money with vendors"

I have an MBA but despise all the usual management speak. I doubt half the people working for Gartner have any industry knowledge at all...

[sappatz]

gartner

Gartner = son of bitches

[HairyArsedBloke]

11. If there are places where you don't need five nines of availability, settle for three nines.

WTF does that mean?

[Tensai]

WTF does that mean?

Allowed downtime. 5 nines = 99.999% uptime (i.e. downtime approx 5 mins/year) . 3 nines = 99.9%.

[TheBigYinJames]

WTF does that mean?

99.999% (five nines) availability or 99.9% (three nines) availability, a lot easier to reach.

[TheBigYinJames]

99.999% (five nines) availability or 99.9% (three nines) availability, a lot easier to reach.

And someone else beat me to it. Actually, strike that, I don''t know what it means, I'd hate to be the one imbuing the Gartner's article with any credibility.

[Tensai]

I'd hate to be the one imbuing the Gartner's article with any credibility.

If it helps, you're not. I doubt the analyst needs a PhD to state something quite so staggeringly obvious, "i.e. don't pay for something you don't need."

The project I inherited had a bunch of management consultants hanging on doing, essentially, PM work. At £1300/day. I took great pleasure in telling them (politely) that their services were no longer required.

[Sysman]

And someone else beat me to it. Actually, strike that, I don''t know what it means, I'd hate to be the one imbuing the Gartner's article with any credibility.

What it means is that after the LSE's outage for a full day the other week:

Another design goal was extreme reliability. Microsoft claimed that the system had “100% reliability.” Dual processing sites were configured and the system could recover from any component failure within a second. It is reported that the LSE offers a five-9s SLA (Service Level Agreement). Unfortunately, this outage shoots the SLA for the next 84 years.

[HairyArsedBloke]

What it means is that after the LSE's outage for a full day the other week:

Apart from the trendy "it the fault of Microsoft", what was the actual problem at the LSE?