Re:Dell could emerge as a public company through a reverse m...
by tyingq on Monday January 29, 2018 @08:48PM
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Right...but it stifles progress a bit by encouraging stodgy F500 companies to stay with colo arrangements or worse.
Non elastic, or high egress cost apps are still too expensive to run on public clouds. Or, the transition period, where you're half in/half out, kills you because of overpriced egress.
Re:Dell could emerge as a public company through a reverse m...
by toyg on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @02:53AM
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> Non elastic, or high egress cost apps are still too expensive to run on public clouds.
Unfortunately for the sector I'm in, this is becoming less and less true every few months. Besides, a lot of managers simply don't care, they'll just compensate higher opex with a few redundancies, it doesn't matter - their capex budget goes down, they cash the big bucks, and if apps don't work it's the nerds' fault.
I see this from the inside professionally and I’m not surprised by the outcome. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are basically unmatchable. IBM likely survives on incompetent managers paying more to ensure they don’t get fired, but nobody else has that advantage.
Kids, don’t play datacentre at home.