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

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[TheBigYinJames]

WTF does that mean?

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

[Tensai]

WTF does that mean?

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

[HairyArsedBloke]

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

WTF does that mean?

[sappatz]

gartner

Gartner = son of bitches

[beaker]

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

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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...

[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.

[Gonzo]

WHS

Anyone - how was it who said "if you think hiring a professional is expensive - try hiring an amateur"?

It is usually attributed to Red Adair, I can't find anything to back that up though.

[ace00]

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WHS. And Gartmore too. Tosspots.
Just heard the contractor budget is front & centre for the chop here.
But look at it the "weasle way":
1. Hire contractors - implement projects. Manager is a can-do guy.
2. Fire contractors - reduce budget expenditure. Manager is a cost-saving guy.
It's a win/win !

[TykeMerc]

It's not just Britain; it's infected the whole of Europe in the last 10 years as previously well run continental companies fell for the so-called 'Anglo-Saxon' economic model of quick profits in the short term, mega bonusses for management and hire-and-fire policies.

True, but I only really understand it from a UK perspective.

[Mich the Tester]

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Sorry, doesn't make sense to me.

I've been waiting for the chance to rant about those posters, but I think I'll just go for a cup of tea instead.

[Mich the Tester]

Vain hope indeed.

Pointless middle and upper management will tend to survive in this country at the expense of people who can actually do real things, it's been that way for a very long time.

It's not just Britain; it's infected the whole of Europe in the last 10 years as previously well run continental companies fell for the so-called 'Anglo-Saxon' economic model of quick profits in the short term, mega bonusses for management and hire-and-fire policies.