@scottalanmiller said:
This is a question that I keep asking. Why are non-US companies not going crazy providing all of these awesome services that we take for granted in the US? Why are there no European cloud host, backup vendors of this nature, etc.?
This is what I am actively exploring in the UK, If no one else will offer it...I just might.
Oh no sir, you need the white glove license management service for...1 million dollars.
Because there is now a market for selling "License Management Systems"
Had you picked B/C then they could use that to hit you over the head with threats of Microsoft's legal department, to scare you into buying their compliant dedicated license management system.
They'll want to sell you on the idea that if you buy a license from them, it gets auto added to the database as well, that's why D exists.
I'd have chosen D.
Their definition of a dedicated license management system could be different to yours, the fact is you currently audit and track 100% of software licenses manually, rather than doing it through license management software.
If they query it, show them the spreadsheet.
@thecreativeone91 said:
Off site backup services will ship harddives. CrashPlan and others will do this.
"Customers in the US, Australia, New Zealand, and all overseas US Armed Forces POs."
http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Backup/Seeded_Backup
Can I find someone who is not in the US?
@mlnews said:
With cloud, if things fail, you restore in seconds with another instance unless the ENTIRE site is down.
Still doesn't help if people are using on site servers, I'm talking about data backup only in the cloud.
@thecreativeone91 said:
Well if the server is running in the cloud rather than locally.
Key word being if of course.
@thecreativeone91 said:
You can get cloud backups with shipping physical disk features. Nothing about being virtual limits that.
Whether physical or virtual, I've not found a decent backup vendor in the UK who offers that feature. I need the data on a drive, with a courier, straight away. Unless I've missed someone really obvious.
@scottalanmiller said:
Normally cloud is backed up to the same site for near instant restore and a DR site is another cloud. So the need for shipping drives does not exist in a standard architecture.
Not sure I follow? With a single server and single site which needs a backup, server falls over, on site backups corrupted, time to use the cloud, what happens next?
There are providers of hosted backup in the US who ship a hard drive for recovery if you need it, far as I know there is nothing like that in the UK.
So whilst cloud-backups with their zillion features are nice, restore times dictate whether you need a colo.
CloudatCost - There are dozens of posts in this community alone about their issues, yet in the early days they were recommended as amazing, great product, must buy.
As IT pros, we often give opinions on our experiences with products/services/solutions, in some cases with a "Buy this, it's amazing"
What do you do when that recommendation was a disaster? Do you reach out and say "Well, that was a bad call, sorry I recommended that to you"
@Kelly said:
You might be able to get hands on time with the console and see more for yourself on the admin side without actually having to install it.
They've already got a demo on their site, I've already been through it, Not much to demonstrate apart from showing how I turn on feature X. 
It's not a Symantec console.
@Kelly said:
@Breffni-Potter They will be at SpiceWorld London, so you can get a more thorough demo there if you're interested.
The problem is, product demos are always biased. They are there to show off their product and the demo I saw last night was good enough, I don't need someone to explain how it works when I can trial it.
The biggest thing is, are people using it, do they like it or hate it, if they hate it, then no product demo will ever fix that, if they like it, then it just confirms what I know.
@thecreativeone91 Interesting, when was this? Do you remember what OS you were running?
Met a Webroot guy at a spicecorps last night, pretty much sold me on it.
Just have that niggling "ahhh but what do others think"
It seems too good to be true that the product can be that good.
Going back to lost opportunity, do they want to attract cash-rich companies who will float the bill of travel, expenses, conference & still buy items? Whilst deterring others.
The good, the bad, the ugly and the amazing.
Go!
Surely let's ask the Spiceworks guys why?
But more to the point, would an organisation like NTG not come because it's in London? What made you come in previous years, why are you still coming now.
If tickets keep getting sold and if the people still come, then for the texas office, there is no "reason" to change the model Perhaps they need a few reasons?