Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem
by lamontcg on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:44PM
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The biggest obstacle is going to be keeping yourself lean in the face of employees that want to build their own empires internally.
Since I worked at Amazon for 5 years I saw how to cut costs on networking and hardware and to build only as much as you actually need. My experience after working at Amazon is that most Enterprise IT is full of people who hide behind Best Practices in order to expand their budget.
You can very easily wind up with massive amounts of spending to VMWare, EMC and Cisco. Unless you have an executive with a vision on how to contain costs with networking, storage and servers, I wouldn't recommend on prem, you can easily wind up spending an order of magnitude more than you should be.
Since I worked at Amazon for 5 years I saw how to cut costs on networking and hardware and to build only as much as you actually need. My experience after working at Amazon is that most Enterprise IT is full of people who hide behind Best Practices in order to expand their budget.
You can very easily wind up with massive amounts of spending to VMWare, EMC and Cisco. Unless you have an executive with a vision on how to contain costs with networking, storage and servers, I wouldn't recommend on prem, you can easily wind up spending an order of magnitude more than you should be.