[chupy]

Where I am currently working, thanks to good automation procedures there are only 3 people that are managing 4 datacenters on 3 continents with over 1000 virtual machines and also a couple of hundred physical servers. Those 3 people are 1 linux sysadmin, one network guy and one vmware guy. None of them works fulltime on maintaining the infrastructure just on patching/upgrading/installing new systems and that's 1/2 days a week at most. I have now finished the plan for the migration of two datacenters and that process takes about 2 months with shipping/networking/configuring/installing machines.

I really don't understand the obsession of getting rid of ops / hardware guys and relying on Amazon/Google/CoolCloudProvider to handle everything.