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On premises hardware can hardly be called legacy. Clouds are way too expensive for startups; they are a milking machine for the big corpo.
by cynicalsecurity 3y ago
On premises hardware can hardly be called legacy. Clouds are way too expensive for startups; they are a milking machine for the big corpo.
- lumost 3y agoStartups are typically capex constrained, at least until series C. Clouds are favorable to capex constraints. Having personally tried to be cheaper than the cloud in 2013 through large hardware buys, negotiated contracts etc. I found that the roi relative to a progressively discounting cloud weren’t there.