> old school IT departments that take months to spin up a VM after pages of bureaucratic back and forth. Virtual machines were the bureaucracy shortcut. People

> old school IT departments that take months to spin up a VM after pages of bureaucratic back and forth. Virtual machines were the bureaucracy shortcut. People sounded exactly like you. In fact, you can go back about 30 or 40 years and each decade people said the same type of thing. E.g.: "What's great about a mainframe logical partition is that we don't have to do a year of paperwork to get our own mainframe." "What's great about Intel servers is that we don't have to beg IT for a mainframe LPAR." "What's great about virtual machines is we don't have to... " "What's great about the cloud is we don't..." "What's great about SaaS is..." <- You are here. PS: There's products starting appear in the market that "firewall" SaaS products to stop people like you. Not the hackers. You! The bureaucracy will not be side-stepped.