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> such as the belief that bare-metal means “server room here in the office” I remember the day I discovered some companies, and not just tech ones (Walmart, UP
by ElFitz 11mo ago
> such as the belief that bare-metal means “server room here in the office”
I remember the day I discovered some companies, and not just tech ones (Walmart, UPS, Toyota,…) actually own, operate, and use their own datacenters.
And there companies out there specialized in planning and building datacenters for them.
I mean, it’s kind of obvious. But it made me realize at how small a scale I both thought and operated.
- water-your-self 11mo agoWalmart does not want to use AWS because they are in direct competition. I worked for a company that was attempting to sell software to walmart.
- ElFitz 10mo agoYes, but if that was the only rationale, couldn’t they have opted for GCP or Azure?
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