On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:33:51 +0000 Müller Urs (IT-OM-SDP-SDN) urs.bf.mueller@sbb.ch wrote:
Yesterday, I was contacted by Silvia (and others) about that task. I was then not registered with that list.
@Silvia: Great!
Thanks for quick response, Urs.
We were struggling with convincing the management to fund projects until last year. The current solution is more or less a workaround and this year, we are trying to achieve a direct connection to our webservers.
Quite normal. Infrastructure development is always hard to communicate to business. Same problems for education or know-how management. You can't measure a business value directly.
This year, we will give more effort on the subject. But our network is quite complex and grown over the years. So there is no way to "just put a box in between and some cables" ;-)
That is true for most companies, which have bigger structures. Usually you just build up a parallel infrastructure to solve that, something cloud-ish today and by-pass all classic infrastructure - especially by-passing firewalls, loadbalancers and classic host management and virtualization environments.
Develop that stuff step by step in the direction of self-services (aka software defined or API driven) is almost impossible.
And on the other side it's good: you can do the right things (i.e. IPv6) inside of a cloud project and nobody will ask for the business value.
Best Regards Oli