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Manufacturing. The cost to a factory if the internet is down is too great. Each facility has its own highly redundant virtualization infrastructure hosting 50 to 100 VMs.


I was in manufacturing IT before moving to big tech. Our big campuses in the US & Europe had 40-80mbps internet circuits. The remote facilities in developing countries often only had 10mbps MPLS connections to a regional hub. To be 100% honest, we had 10x the outages caused by crappy local infrastructure than anything having to do with a SaaS service or IaaS/PaaS provider. Seriously, things like bad storms, a snake (cobra!) sneaking into the server room and frying itself and a machine it was snuggling against, utility workers accidentally severing cables, generators failing during power outages, labor strikes, and so much more. Moving to the cloud -- or even just hosting everything centrally -- was much more stable than maintaining a fleet of distributed machines.


Manufacturing Here. This is also the Case with us. Also the cost to run our on-prem in the cloud would be almost 10x what we pay right now. Such an insane amount of CAD Data, there is 0% chance we can get an internet connection that comes close to what on-prem can handle for our massive cad data.


Manufacturing is the one place I still use on-prem, mostly because I work in a field that has compliance reasons for doing so and the, 'internets out, we can't print' problem.


Not sure what you are making but that’s way more advanced than any factory I’ve been to!




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