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Elasticity? Fine. So their, say, single rack will sometime have limited load and be under-utilized. About the up-front investment - most hi-tech companies are
by einpoklum 6y ago
Elasticity? Fine. So their, say, single rack will sometime have limited load and be under-utilized.
About the up-front investment - most hi-tech companies are a massive initial up-front (or nearly-up-front) investment.
- spullara 6y agoI was talking about at scale, not a rack. If you can get by with a rack, you will pay more for the people to support it than the incremental cost of the cloud.
- einpoklum 6y ago> If you can get by with a rack, you will pay more for the people to support it than the incremental cost of the cloud. Probably a whole lot less. At larger scale - I would guess it's the same thing. If an organization needs more than a rack during peak use, it can probably benefit from setting up its own infrastructure. Only in the uncommon case of short extreme peak use and almost no use most of the time does such elasticity make a could solution attractive. IMHO.