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Well, it's been debated whether Thomas J Watson, the Chairman of IBM, actually said this some 67 years ago, but I think that the quote is evidence of the mentality of the day.
I-COM currently has more servers than this in-house, and it's been discussed, sometimes heatedly, as to whether we should have more, or should have less. Either way, there are a few more than five computers in the world today. I travel to work with at least 2 and I reckon Thomas Watson didn't dream of me doing that every day.
My train of thought wanders a lot (those at the company meeting on Friday will certainly know that!) and I often sit and think about our systems and servers at I-COM. Do we really need more, or should we need less? I certainly believe in being as energy conscious as we can be but I also want an infrastructure that can expand and cope with what I see us needing in future, and to some extent what I don't see. I certainly do not support the current mentality that having a few extra CPU cycles to hand is going to provide me with beach holidays in the Arctic! After all, I have a bit of a backing in science and it doesn't take that education to realise I'm not finding sticky black footprints on my servers and that my skiing holidays are safe. I'm as concerned my distant descendants might need warmer clothes rather than SPF 50 lotion! [Note to self: I'm digressing]
I-COM's dedicated Network Administrator role was created when I joined, my predecessor of sorts is a developer first and administrator second. I believe that I-COM's Directors felt that they needed someone who was going to surf the seas of technology and drive I-COM's systems into the future. As such I work on anything you could consider IT, except the online stuff; I can leave that to the rest of the teams, who really are dedicated and talented.
Since I began in May 2009, we've probably had more setbacks and failures than the West Coast Main Line (no offence intended), yet, somehow, I still have a job! What has happened for certain is that we've pushed and developed our systems so hard in 18 months that things were bound to go wrong at some point. This said, I-COM could have outsourced my position; they certainly know enough IT Outsourcing firms that could do that, even some of our clients can offer to do that for us. But they took the chance and hired me, thanks guys, I really need a 25 hours a day job to keep me occupied, no, really, I do. Would I be sat here in bed at the minute, thinking things through if I didn't want to, no! I'd be up to 27,182 sheep by now. [Digression lingers again!]
On that thought I'd better wrap things up for now, but be sure to come back for the ending and more tales of interest. I'll try to make them meatier than a steak and kidney pudding sat on a bed of gammon steak!
I hear the next sheep is ready for counting! Goodnight, take care, peace and blessings to all.
Phil x
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