To add fuel to your fire, I've personally been exposed to supporting the DC infrastructure in multiple companies and let me tell you, it's no picnic. The time a

To add fuel to your fire, I've personally been exposed to supporting the DC infrastructure in multiple companies and let me tell you, it's no picnic. The time and money we spent on maintaining the system was outrageous. Getting vendors to come fix their systems or tracking down licenses for software took days and days. Even finding replacement hard drives that were compatible with our 3 year old servers was a giant task that consumed several team resource's for hours at a time. These are the things that DC/Colo people don't talk about and conveniently forget when it comes to cloud systems. I would gladly give up that "control" for steady and predictable futures.