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I always see the motivation for the cloud mainly because of financial reasoning but is there a benefit to stay on-site in terms of knowledge retention (for the

I always see the motivation for the cloud mainly because of financial reasoning but is there a benefit to stay on-site in terms of knowledge retention (for the lack of a better word)? For instance, there is a big push to outsource manufactured parts and good mainly due to "cost savings". However, the are long term cost savings when we keep the parts made in-house which management always overlook. Sure, it cost money to maintain the machines, inventory, and tools but this allows greater flexibility and also retain the knowledge within the company. In addition, it allows the engineers to drive technology within the company faster. Is this the case for data center infrastructure?

perlgeek 8y ago
You are a bit more flexible in the data center. Like, if you really need very low latency and high bandwidth between two machines, you could buy an infiniband thingy. Expensive AF, but may less expensive than setting a horde of software engineers on it for two years to deal with the higher latency. But, all in all, there aren't all that many practical use cases that really benefits from stuff like that. Most projects are quite happy with some storage, compute, network, and a few managed services. Most companies don't do rocket science with their software and infrastructure. And there are things that you simply can only afford at scale, like security management for your supply chain, dedicated automation for updating firmware of every tiny controller that's in your hardware, and so on.