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The original premise of clouds was good. Allow companies to run their software on someone else's machines. The cloud guys wanted to make more money so they star
by therealbilly 5y ago
The original premise of clouds was good. Allow companies to run their software on someone else's machines. The cloud guys wanted to make more money so they started cloning commercial software and then charging companies to use their home-grown stuff. Then the cloud guys began to sub-divide and monetize slivers of service and components of hosting. The danger obviously is that you pay more than if you had your own on premise hardware. Even more serious is the fact you are locked in to their home-grown software and management tools. I predict a re-examination of the whole cloud paradigm at some point relatively soon.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The original premise of clouds was good. Allow companies to run their software on someone else's machines. That's not the original premise of clouds, that's the original premise of renting out servers, which is much older. The original premise of clouds is “enable dynamic provisioning of resources”.