To elaborate, we've worked with many customers looking to get out of "slinging metal" and focus on what matters to their business most. Some have said that the

To elaborate, we've worked with many customers looking to get out of "slinging metal" and focus on what matters to their business most. Some have said that the revenue generated justifies the cost of <enter one of big 3 here> BUT others (and I think you'll see this more over the next decade) are looking at automated bare metal. You get the primitives of the cloud but on physical servers, and more importantly with economics closer to running your own gear. Especially if you consider TCO - power, network, ops people, etc