I think Cloud has never been a question of costs — it’s generally about not having to become operational experts in house and maintain that expertise as it’s not a core business function (hard for SMEs for example, to retain talent outside of overhaul and project cycles), overall desire by senior management to single source vendor management, and a “throat to choke” that keeps you from losing your job if problems arise.
These are the drivers I’ve seen, with cost a distant third, fourth or fifth. Can’t wait to see what happens this economic cycle.
The infrastructure the simplest little offering on a modern data center is so immense that honestly it’s a good deal often. If you’re a small-midsize company what’ll you do - put a bunch of computers in the office closet and get what uptime and latency?
Pretty good uptime and exactly the same latency (CDNs != cloud, and that's where most latency is handled). Not 99.9%, which is the big selling point of clouds... as long as you forget about all the times that their complex infrastructure collapses on itself and loses you that third 9.
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I think Cloud has never been a question of costs — it’s generally about not having to become operational experts in house and maintain that expertise as it’s not a core business function (hard for SMEs for example, to retain talent outside of overhaul and project cycles), overall desire by senior management to single source vendor management, and a “throat to choke” that keeps you from losing your job if problems arise.
These are the drivers I’ve seen, with cost a distant third, fourth or fifth. Can’t wait to see what happens this economic cycle.
The infrastructure the simplest little offering on a modern data center is so immense that honestly it’s a good deal often. If you’re a small-midsize company what’ll you do - put a bunch of computers in the office closet and get what uptime and latency?
Pretty good uptime and exactly the same latency (CDNs != cloud, and that's where most latency is handled). Not 99.9%, which is the big selling point of clouds... as long as you forget about all the times that their complex infrastructure collapses on itself and loses you that third 9.