What local nerds? Usually you go to a so called "Systemhaus" for that. Like a contractor or I think you'd call it managed service provider. Some municipalities (or companies for that matter) get everything done by them, some have some admins but need some support in more complex matters. Completely professional and not some side gig, lol...
It is up to the municipality to tell them where to host it. If you go there with no demands or restrictions they will take the easiest route and setting up a new mailserver is just really simple with exchange online. Additionally every license sold is a bit of MRR. So the incentive is quite high to sell m365. But it is up to the client and if the msp pushes too hard I'd go and look for another msp to be honest.
Honestly yes. What's your threat model here? You don't want your systems held hostage by ransomware gangs. At local levels of government this is the main problem.
You wouldn't end up contracting with some weird local nerds for critical systems?
What local nerds? Usually you go to a so called "Systemhaus" for that. Like a contractor or I think you'd call it managed service provider. Some municipalities (or companies for that matter) get everything done by them, some have some admins but need some support in more complex matters. Completely professional and not some side gig, lol...
The issue is that the choice of those companies is sometimes to host your stuff on MS365...
It is up to the municipality to tell them where to host it. If you go there with no demands or restrictions they will take the easiest route and setting up a new mailserver is just really simple with exchange online. Additionally every license sold is a bit of MRR. So the incentive is quite high to sell m365. But it is up to the client and if the msp pushes too hard I'd go and look for another msp to be honest.
It doesn’t say that each of the services they are using is some local small ISP, the whole point is to show they are also using large US companies.
Also, it would probably be easier to get a real human on the phone or proper support from the local nerds compared to Google.
But you end up with 1 already large, foreign provider getting all your critical infra, at once?
Honestly yes. What's your threat model here? You don't want your systems held hostage by ransomware gangs. At local levels of government this is the main problem.
I’ll take rsync.net
over OneDrive,
all day long.
As one example.