> is orthogonal to the service being delivered to users. Not if they need a server. I think you might be imagining this from an MSP perspective. > Because peo

> is orthogonal to the service being delivered to users. Not if they need a server. I think you might be imagining this from an MSP perspective. > Because people focus on their core competencies The IT department handles the computers, it's always been that way. There is no group more competent at it than the IT guys. > those jobs are mostly gone now, it’s a data center monkeys job Onprem is still very much a thing, especially since AWS and VMware became expensive in the last couple of years. The local/cloud thing is cyclical (started with mainframes, went to the pc, then back to the cloud) and I reckon with the cost of ai tokens the push back to local will be led by people running their own ai farms