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It's not difficult to come up with a specific set of requirements that make 3rd party hosting suboptimal or even impossible. We have customers who do not want t
by balls187 11y ago
It's not difficult to come up with a specific set of requirements that make 3rd party hosting suboptimal or even impossible. We have customers who do not want their data to leave their data centers, so we must oblige.
For many situations, services like AWS are a god send. Resources that were typically allocated to infrastructure can now be reallocated to other areas. With a little bit of common sense hopefully areas that drive real business value.
Cloud isn't appropriate for all situations, but I assert that for many, it is, and "investing in IT" isn't a default directive.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoOh, I agree with you that cloud offerings can be beneficial for a number of situations. I've strongly considered them for two areas in particular: non-confidential apps that need bandwidth that's too expensive to set up locally; one-off or temporary projects using non-confidential apps or data; backup storage of encrypted data or non-sensitive data. Hosting companies are usually good enough for most stuff but I've seen nice cost & ease of use arguments for above cases. I keep my eye open for other use cases I haven't seen. The tech I'm most excited about are the various private cloud, open hardware, and cloud software initiatives. This stuff can bring a lot of the advantages in-house with few of the issues I gripe about. I hope to see continued innovation in that area.