@dafyre You should be prepared for plenty of things their that even their $40,000 firewall can't do, unfortunately.

I can tell you that as of 12 months ago on an MX80 its not possible. I have customers that insist we use them but I refuse to sell them.

Meraki started as RoofNet, then they screwed all us original supporters over and started making network hardware. I got on board early on, then the price jacking started along with the hiring of annoying Stanford grad sales reps working their starter job.

If you crave all the network visibility of Meraki just deploy Ubiquiti Unifi on EC2 and enjoy saving 75% off all your hardware purchases. You get great visibility and control and Meraki doesn't own your customer -- you do. The cloud and network monitoring dashboard has AT LEAST feature parity.

We do Yealink 48G with WF40 module all the time, prior to that we used Snom wifi 5+ years ago, which was maybe the only option then. Works great, no issues above wired networks if you have a decent wifi network deployed (UBNT, Ruckus, etc)

More cloud-baby BS. Imagine son, in the early 2000's any SMB or Mid Market companies top expense was maintaining their Exchange Server farms, it was probably 80% of my billables up until Google Apps took off.

These are cost effective against outage risk factors on a 1 to 20 ratio against. Outages were so constant it literally killed the ASP movement. Anyway remember "Application Server Providers". Salesforce is the only one who survived it.

This generation has yet to see a real outage.

@scottalanmiller said in How Do Such Big Gaps Get Missed in IT Education:

@G-I-Jones said in How Do Such Big Gaps Get Missed in IT Education:

I feel that knowledge gaps like this aren't as relevant as having the resources to bridge those gaps. I mean, we're supposed to be the best at Googling right? It's in our nature to find solutions. That's the only relevant skill I'm seeing.

I think that that is specifically where those gaps might come from. IT can't be done by Googling. Sure, trivial things like "what is a domain controller" can be, but what triggers you to know that you need to Google that? IT requires, IMHO, a load of "baseline" knowledge, far more than most fields, so that things like Googling answers can be applied on top of that.

Like I Google the syntax for a command, but not the concept behind the command or which command to run. If I had to pick Google or "good books", good books I'd say are twice as important or more for IT. Google helps me know which button to push, but books and more traditional, structured learning, taught me what buttons to acquire.

Baseline understanding of directory services, security infrastructure, SPoF planning, load balancing, network topology design, lan/wan routing, rights management - things that would make the cloud-baby generation's head spin.

Just throw it in my G Suite right? Its all secure breh...

I had a large public school system client where the IT Director left a couple years into my relationship with them. It was a sudden move and the district quickly moved the tech-illiterate highschool librarian into her role...

It was a good and profitable account for the next 3 years until they finally replaced her.

@aaronstuder Thats a loaded questions. In short its about scale and security.

Containers are better for scale, but much harder to secure.

Virtual Machines are isolated but there is no scalability beyond the resources you assign it.

Developers are more likely to use containers, sysadmins are more likely to design VM farms that are app specific.

This is a gross generalization but the question was also very broad.

That leftover Piada kept nice..

AWM is getting better, native ActiveSync and Interop with Exchange Server Farm for migration. An ok deal at $4/box but for $2/u/m more you get AWD bundled. 50g mail, 200gb file sync per user.

No commits, metered usage, had SPAM issues in late 2015 but 2016 Amazon really cleaned things up. Its what they use internally for their entire workforce.

Deploy from your own AWS account and send Microsoft a big @#$% you for trying to own your customers.

@BBigford do you mean for chat, or for vid/conf?