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In my experience, the blind drive to the cloud comes from above. It's someone's pet project and you're either on-board or not. I won't go as far as calling it

• lotyrin 8y ago
  It has to be, even with as irrational as the market can be I don't see people sustaining this kind of spend on public clouds -- the cultural barriers and perverse incentives that prevent effective use of private / hybrid cloud have to erode eventually.
  • mmt 8y ago
    > have to erode eventually That's not borne out by history, especially in the face of "enterprise" hardware, software, and support, which, in many large companies, is being replaced by cloud (at lower cost!). For smaller companies, it may be a different story, especially at the next economic downturn, especially if VC money becomes scarce enough for long enough.
• tomc1985 8y ago
  There are armies of salespeople brainwashing executives about "the cloud". At my last job it only took a few years before every single C-level was spouting off recycled cloud propaganda
  • anoncoward111 8y ago
    That's ironic-- back in 2014, every prospect was hanging up on me saying they "weren't ready to go cloud yet" :)