VPN, VDI, Cloud

Started by deanwebb, May 13, 2020, 08:52:38 AM

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deanwebb

May 13, 2020, 08:52:38 AM
For remote network access, what are you seeing out there? I've got some customers that will issue laptops and set us up with VPN access. I've got customers that set us up with a web portal access that gives us a published app to access a VDI system. Don't yet have folks with a Cloud workstation arrangement, but one customer is moving in that direction.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Dieselboy

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May 13, 2020, 11:10:24 PM
I would like to follow this thread because my exposure at the moment and since 2014 is on my internal network and no further. I'm using lots of HTTPS for users and then Anyconnect SSL VPN for those that need it. It's probably an outdated design.

deanwebb

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May 14, 2020, 12:27:45 PM
Well, I'll talk about this one customer, then... they're basically moving everything possible to the cloud. No more datacenters. They'll still have some wiring closets for having cloud assets reach non-migratable servers and things, but most of what they want to do is have a remote desktop or Amazon Workstation access the server resources in their AWS environment. They're retail, so they still need to have stuff in shops, but it'll be a hand-held front end to an AWS resource, ultimately.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

icecream-guy

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May 15, 2020, 12:52:00 PM
Quote from: deanwebb on May 14, 2020, 12:27:45 PM
Well, I'll talk about this one customer, then... they're basically moving everything possible to the cloud. No more datacenters. They'll still have some wiring closets for having cloud assets reach non-migratable servers and things, but most of what they want to do is have a remote desktop or Amazon Workstation access the server resources in their AWS environment. They're retail, so they still need to have stuff in shops, but it'll be a hand-held front end to an AWS resource, ultimately.

so when their any store ISP link does down, because of the backhoe in the street that is digging up the ground to fix a water pipe leak, cuts their fiber.

 
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

#4
May 15, 2020, 02:01:24 PM
Same problem as going back to the traditional DC, though...
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Otanx

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May 15, 2020, 02:03:21 PM
Yep, but that is pretty common failure issue already for most stores. Most places are doing 4G backup links to mitigate that.

-Otanx

wintermute000

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May 16, 2020, 11:52:15 AM Last Edit: May 16, 2020, 11:55:18 AM by wintermute000
Most mid market companies can barely run a LAN let alone a proper DC. it will be going 80% cloud in the next half decade. I've done SDWAN/direct connect/express route projects for two customers already who went 100% cloud and in the middle of two more

A lot of retail have POS going direct to payments via mobile and local transaction servers that can do standalone for a period but yeah nowadays SD Wan with mobile backup is a no brainer

deanwebb

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May 17, 2020, 11:13:48 AM
Quote from: wintermute000 on May 16, 2020, 11:52:15 AM
Most mid market companies can barely run a LAN let alone a proper DC. it will be going 80% cloud in the next half decade. I've done SDWAN/direct connect/express route projects for two customers already who went 100% cloud and in the middle of two more

A lot of retail have POS going direct to payments via mobile and local transaction servers that can do standalone for a period but yeah nowadays SD Wan with mobile backup is a no brainer



On the one hand that makes it so much easier for businesses, but it also makes them so much more dependent on the expertise of the cloud provider. It's like we're re-inventing the phone company.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.
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