Microsoft touts bigger, faster Azure VMs as data deluge grows

Microsoft is rolling out two larger memory-optimized Azure instances that offer faster response times and throughput for remote storage operations, making use of both Azure managed disks and Intel's Xeon "Ice Lake" processors. The software giant previewed the NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 VM sizes at the company's Ignite 2022 show in …

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What happened?

Where did the backlash to The Cloud go? I heard briefly, most likely on this site, that some were awakening to the absurdity of The Cloud and paying by the minute and the byte for all server operations was not cost effective. Only those without the capacity to manage their own infrastructure needed the assistance of the Giants (Amazon, Google and Microsoft). Only feeble-minded management followed the trend of The Cloud, but the realization of the expenses and new points of failure were beginning to take hold.

Oh well, on to the next big thing. What is it? Globally managed block-chains for user IDs on subscription services for any device. Got to be a security related thing in there somewhere-and a fee structure, of course.

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Re: What happened?

We just haven't got to the "find out" part yet of FAFO at the scale that matters.

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Over 25 minutes to copy 17 files totaling 27MB from one OneDrive folder to another with the web interface. Terrifying speeds, NOT!