There is NO Cloud....😎😎😎
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I agree 100%. Sadly, these "Cloud First" and "Cloud Only" directives are coming in from the Private Equity/Venture Capital folks placed on Company Boards. The C-level Execs don't bother to argue with them... and downhill the directive rolls. This is nothing more than a centralization of power (via data gravity). Hell, most of the time the techie folks that are tasked with implementing things don't want to 'go to the cloud' but they are told that's all they are allowed to do.
Until the Boards and C-levels are cleaned up, the "Cloud" will continue to amass massive data from all manner of companies - to be silently data mined, exploited, insights sold to competitors, etc. -- of course, they'll never admit that this happens, but I've no doubt that it happens all the time.
They did it at my company, well tried, and its a disaster.
I work at a shop that's moved everything to Microsoft Azure Cloud. They're completely fucked if Azure suffers a massive outage.
Oh I know. Google had a big outage a week or so ago. We didn't fare well with that one. I try not to say things like I told ya so but it's just too obvious in some cases.
I see this all the time - I call it "over-extending into the cloud"... CTOs should be fired when this happens. It is actually VERY difficult to move into Public Cloud properly -- refactoring apps can take man-years and millions of dollars. Without a damn good reason (i.e. massive need for scalability, ala. Netflix) it makes little to no sense.
I am primarily storage these days and there is no cloud offering that I can find that has suitable disks for most of our workloads. It is ok for extra compute but then we have to find low or sub ms latency connections and it gets really complex and expensive really fast. Just so some C level can say "I took company X to the cloud", pad the resume, and get another 0 added to his paycheck at his next job. It's almost criminal if you ask me. These guys are grifters and care not for the companies they serve.
We are picking up the pieces from the guy who did that to us and is no longer at my company.
What you wrote has to be the most on-point expose of the cloud I've ever read. So well said! Thank you!
Cloud based computing reduces overhead costs a lot, its really no wonder they're flocking to it.
Only at very small scale. For a typical enterprise, I routinely find that a Private Cloud solution is 5x less expensive.