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> This sounds like a classic case of the Innovator's Dilemma. Yes, but there's other factors too. 1. Need special flooring, cooling and power. 2. Expensive e
by redis_mlc 7y ago
> This sounds like a classic case of the Innovator's Dilemma.
Yes, but there's other factors too.
1. Need special flooring, cooling and power.
2. Expensive enough for company instead of departmental budget approval
3. Departments already have PCs to run Excel, etc.
Having said that, I had a tour of the State of Alaska data center once. Standing next to the 6' tall IBM mainframe and Shark storage array was an eye-opening experience. The potential to have that level of support and redundancy with that amount of storage was really unmatched before AWS.