Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
by Nextgrid on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @07:45AM
(#31999499)
> fibers, cooling issues, physical security
All of that can be handled by your colocation facility. In most cases you won't ever reach the scale where building your own DC makes sense.
> Then you still need to pay VMWare for a decent virtualization platform
Should still be cheaper than paying the AWS premium including for bandwidth, not to mention that you don't always need virtualization. If all you need the bare-metal for is a handful of machines to do a very specific task that's too expensive on AWS then running directly on the metal is an option (and leave on AWS the stuff that does require the convenience of virtualization).
> I believe companies selling bare metal as a service are a happy compromise of cost and convenience, though.
Agreed. Most companies shouldn't ever deal with hardware directly - just rent it from a provider and let them do the maintenance.
All of that can be handled by your colocation facility. In most cases you won't ever reach the scale where building your own DC makes sense.
> Then you still need to pay VMWare for a decent virtualization platform
Should still be cheaper than paying the AWS premium including for bandwidth, not to mention that you don't always need virtualization. If all you need the bare-metal for is a handful of machines to do a very specific task that's too expensive on AWS then running directly on the metal is an option (and leave on AWS the stuff that does require the convenience of virtualization).
> I believe companies selling bare metal as a service are a happy compromise of cost and convenience, though.
Agreed. Most companies shouldn't ever deal with hardware directly - just rent it from a provider and let them do the maintenance.