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Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying by dagw on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @10:57AM (#29552958)
sense to me in the context of a business being an IT shop to begin with.

Lots of businesses outside of 'IT shops' use computers. I currently work in Civil Engineering and more and more of our product and service offerings have an IT/Online/Web based component which involves setting up some sort server.

I can spin up new servers all day on our on-prem vSphere cluster.

I what price? At my old job an on-perm vSphere 'machine' cost my department a lot more than what AWS was charging.

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Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:24AM (#29553353)
We've had the same vSphere cluster for 5 years now. I forget what it initially cost, but over the timespan in question I think it would be very difficult for Cloud-anything to cost less. Hell, the licensing for the software we use to do business costs an order of magnitude more.
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