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Office file server isn't going anywhere as long as there are places where internet isn't at least dozens of Mb/s in each direction, and I assure you there are s

• jiggawatts 7y ago
  To add to this: it will be forever impossible to provide low latency to all sites of any large, distributed organisation. For some categories of applications, it'll always be much more performant to have local servers, even if the network is 100Gbps symmetric fibre.
  • closeparen 7y ago
    True, but you can also spin up replicas in your cloud providers' nearest regions. Everybody talks about capacity elasticity, but easy geographical distribution is the much cooler property of public clouds IMO. I could drive to a local colocation site and maintain my own boxes if it came to that, but having dozens of datacenters around the world would be physically impossible for me otherwise. Of course your applications have to support that, but if they can be distributed across in-office servers then they already do.