Customer was US government and decision was made by DOGE?
Can’t possibly be slower than GCP, either. Performance of BigQuery is something to behold.
Cloud makes sense if you’ve a very ‘spiky’ load, I suppose. A website that needs one VM most of the year, but a hundred on a couple of days. Maybe your data processing needs 100 TB of storage a couple of times a month, but not the rest of the time. But for fixed, predictable bread-and-butter stuff?
I do often wonder if people will eventually migrate back to on prem
We migrated a bunch of clients back when we took over for other IT. Cloud was slower, way more costly, less utilitarian, and gave less control. I have no idea why people switched in the first place.
I actually brought it up on an MSP subreddit back when I was still posting there and was relentlessly shit on.
Because “cloud” was the hot buzzword of 2005
The theory is that on-prem includes a lot of ancillary costs like a team of staff for maintenance (or cost for outsourcing it), hardware maintenance/upgrades, cybersecurity, dealing with failures, backup, load balancing, multi-region/multizone etc.
I don’t think cloud solves all these issues necessarily and I am convinced if you do the calculations cloud ends up being more expensive depending on the scale. I think you really pay the premium for convenience, speed (of getting things going) and user experience (the software)
The biggest reason I think is SLAs and the ability to blame someone else when something goes wrong. I’ve seen it play out at multiple different companies now.
It is good for some things like a web server but bad for anything that involves high data or compute needs.
Whith US uncertainty talk has already started, at least here in Norway more and more are talking about looking at exit strategy. Costs are huge because reinvestment but disruption is worse.
Hybrid cloud is where it is at
My workplace started using “onprem cloud” and I can’t even begin to describe how I feel on the matter.
I think that’s called fog
But how much of that half mill goes into your pocket? Surely that money is padding the execs wallets.
Have you priced out big data and compute in GCP?
Sure it’s inflated as hell, but Google has a lot of expensive devs to pay
And I am sure the person hosting a NAS at home has a power bill that also needs to get paid.
Save them even more money by taking their desktops all off of Windows and downloading Ubuntu, it’s free and I’ve been running it for over a week with no problems at home!
A whole week!?
And while you’re at it, do they really need backups? I mean, it takes up so much space… And UPS… They need to be lifecycled so consistently, it’s such a pain in the wallet.
