After having, lets call them discussions, with some of our vendors, I've started to wonder why some "technology companies" fail to embrace new technologies and methodologies. For example, one of our vendors is -requiring- us to have them fly a goober (technical dork) to our site to install the new version of their program on a new server which is on a virtual machine. So, they are requiring the person to be here, take up space in order to remote into a console onto a server that they could have access to remotely. To click next a bunch of time. and watch the vm restart really fast. Example 2, another vendor does not support backup tools on a vm machine. thats right. no veeam or third party product. only vmware's back utility. So, since we a re a school district, i see a script coming up to avoid this issue. Followed by the lecture from the vendor, that's not best practice and yeah, i'm not made out of money.
We are in technology damn it! move forward. If someone questions your reason for doing something (especially as a company) and the best you got is, 'its the way we've always done it'. you need to re-examine your practices. We do it all the time. If we get called on that statement, and you have a possibly better idea, flesh it out, explain it, show me.
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