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You're talking "Mom and Pop" scale businesses that have minimal computing needs other than printing and Internet access. Most "on-prem" IT is much larger. My co
by greedo 5y ago
You're talking "Mom and Pop" scale businesses that have minimal computing needs other than printing and Internet access. Most "on-prem" IT is much larger. My company (also in the Midwest) has mainframes, SANs, vSphere deployments, Nutanix, as well as supporting ~3K users.
- closeparen 5y agoThese businesses ranged from "Mom and Pop" to about 50 employees. There'd be a domain controller, Exchange server, file server, PBX, SQL server, and application servers for 2-3 line of business apps. It seems very clear to me that these kinds of businesses are much better served by cloud. No one of them is that valuable of a customer, but there are so many. Companies that are large enough to have an IT department with multiple highly skilled professionals onsite, or who could even contemplate doing a real data center (most "on prem" is in a closet), I agree is a different calculation.