Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
by VBprogrammer on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:16AM
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I think you are absolutely right, however when they do reverse the decision they will publish a great article about how bringing their datacentres in-house is going to save them $800m a year and a bunch of execs will grant themselves a bigger bonus for saving the company so much money. It's a win-win!
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Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
by prirun on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:10AM
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It's quite possible that at today's prices, they will save $400M/yr, and in the future, as cloud vendors raise prices, bringing it in-house will save them $800M/yr.
Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
by VBprogrammer on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @12:21PM
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Not only that, it's possible that cloud vendors don't charge an extra penny but that the their software grows to consume the virtually limitless computing resources available to them costing them significantly more than expected.
It wouldn't take the most creative exec in the world to make a plausible looking case for changing in either direction even based on the same numbers. A bit of wishful thinking about which costs are included or excluded is probably more than enough.