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