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Strongly Agree with Andy in that interview. In U.S , one way or another everything is running in the cloud. For Europe ? It’s more complicated , most large bu
by asien 8y ago
Strongly Agree with Andy in that interview.
In U.S , one way or another everything is running in the cloud.
For Europe ? It’s more complicated , most large businesses still have their own datacenters or run using dedicated machine with European hosting (OVH).
I’ve worked for many differents banks and they barely use the cloud compared to startups like N26 or Revolut.
Same thing for Industries or Health Services they largely run « On Premise » compared to U.S equivalent.
There is still room for growth from Europe if they manage to convince leaders of large corporations that the cloud will not take the their sovereignty away from them .
- angarg12 8y agoI've worked as a consultant in Germany and I was shocked by how far behind your average company is regarding cloud adoption. Modern tools and processes are also usually a pipe dream. So I agree, the industry as a whole has way more room to grow than you would suspect.
- Thaxll 8y agoEurope is the next big cloud customer since they're always behind US for tech adoption.
- noir_lord 8y agoAlways is a strong word. France had usable networked computers everywhere long before the us did (it was called minitel) Over on the UK my local Telco (not BT) was doing video on demand over copper ~2000, they where also one of the first to switch a fully packet switched internal backbone (so successfully other telcos came to look at how they did it). We had chip and pin a decade before the US. Our median internet connection is better. Is the US the world leader sure, always ahead..not so much.
- gizmodo59 8y agoInternet in US is just terrible for 90% of the population. Even if you are in the Bay Area or Manhattan you are still getting bad speed and you are stuck with a provider like Spectrum or Comcast and you pay 70$ for 150-200Mbps. I just don’t see this changing anytime soon :(
- mrdodge 8y agoI pay $70 a month for gigabit AT&T fiber in a southern city, 10 miles from the city center.
- dajohnson89 8y agoin nyc, i pay $100 for gigabit
- NicoJuicy 8y agoBelgium, 39€ for internet + digital TV + phone line 50 Mbps, but it is enough) We are more on the expensive of Europe. My subscription is pretty cheap though. 200Mbps in the entire country would be around 55€ ( internet only) Europe has 4 of top 5 of the fastest broadband countries in the works. Romania (#5 in speed), goes as low as 7€/month.
- mrdodge 8y agoSo in Romania it's basically the same percentage of income as in the US.
- NicoJuicy 8y agoWhere does that reference "stop". Every utility still has a base cost. Also, I'm pretty sure that the richest in Romania has a much higher income than the poorest in America. But they still pay the same price. Ps. What if you reference it with social health care in Romania vs US. Not everybody works, you know.
- strictfp 8y agoSweden.10Gbps for 30$ / month. It's kind of a long-running launch campaign, but still. https://www.bahnhof.se/villafiber/ https://www.bahnhof.se/villafiber/
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- syn0byte 8y agoBut it does and it will take away an amount of sovereignty. "Excuse me AWS, Can you send me every hard drive used in the storage of Dataset X? Not copies, the original drives. I need to destroy all the drives per regulations." GDPR muddies the waters too. If AWS is the cause of a fuck up and a bucket is accessible on the internet, good luck proving your company shouldn't be saddled with the GDPR fine. AWS will have the technical means, monetary incentive and reputational impunity to claim it was your own fault. Then there is the fact that a decade on the numbers are in; Cloud isn't any cheaper at the scale of most established businesses AWS wants to court. Often it's more expensive. None of this will actually slow adoption. It probably should, but it won't.