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I am skeptical about the whole Cloud story. Has the faint stench of the housing bubble. It made sense when the story was about renting out spare data center ca
by hos234 7y ago
I am skeptical about the whole Cloud story. Has the faint stench of the housing bubble.
It made sense when the story was about renting out spare data center capacity. Amazon and Google had a ton of excess which started the story.
Microsoft, Oracle, IBM et al did not, but had to react to Amazon and Google Cloud and had to build up capacity. Then the game turned into ensuring all that new capacity was utilized. Enterprise needing to make the shift to Cloud is driven almost mindlessly by that fact, much more than actual Enterprise needs and issues. Utilization is achieved by smart marketing, a ton of it, targeted at dumb Enterprise.
This feels like some honeymoon period.
- soared 7y ago> Enterprise needing to make the shift to Cloud is driven almost mindlessly by that fact Is your claim that there are almost no legitimate reasons to move enterprise applications to the cloud? I don't want to hire more engineers, buy more servers, etc. I just want to pay money and skip everything else.
- gph 7y agoI don't think it's dumb for most small to mid-size enterprise companies to migrate to the cloud. Being able to outsource IT/infrastructure is quite beneficial when your needs aren't so big that it makes sense to set up your own datacenter. And it's far more flexible, if you suddenly start getting a lot more or less traffic you can quickly upgrade/downgrade to what you need.
- eirini1 7y agotbh I think its eventually going to be an enviromental requirement to put everything in the cloud. At work we have an application used by financial advisors in offices during working hours only. Why do we need to have 4 whole machines spinning 24/7 (in the name of reliability and availability) when we only need a fraction of that computing power and only between 08:00 and 17:00?