Cisco CEO Predicts ‘Brutal’ IT Consolidation

Re:Cisco CEO Predicts ‘Brutal’ IT Consolidation by gaius on Monday May 26, 2014 @05:15AM (#7799157)

A cloud provider pays the same as you for real estate, electricity, x86 hardware, and engineering talent,

The only advantage of scale is being able to oversell, e.g. running one customers workload during their peak hours and another customer on the same kit at theirs.

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Re:Cisco CEO Predicts ‘Brutal’ IT Consolidation by GFischer on Monday May 26, 2014 @09:08AM (#7799577)

Are you sure about your first sentence?

real estate - don't they explicitly look for cheap real estate and tax breaks?

electricity - cloud providers save a lot on electricity by choosing carefully their locations. Facebook built a datacenter in the Arctic, I don't see your average enterprise doing that.

- x86 hardware. They're spending a lot less by having their own custom hardware

- engineering talent. They should be saving by using local talent from elsewhere, not Silicon Valley or NYC wages. IBM does that.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_efficient_plane...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-03/facebooks-ne...

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Re:Cisco CEO Predicts ‘Brutal’ IT Consolidation by gaius on Monday May 26, 2014 @03:37PM (#7801203)

All companies offshore these days. Anything a cloud company can do, any large company can do.

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