Big cloud, big storm
Cloud now bigger than Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco combined
Global spend on cloud services hit $233.4bn in 2019, says analyst firm IDC, and the biggest five players accounted for a third of it and grew faster than the chasing pack. IDC defines “cloud” as the combination of software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service (SaaS, IaaS and PaaS). The firm rates …
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Wednesday 19th August 2020 08:14 GMT Pascal Monett
So the numbers are in
Everyone is going to The Cloud (TM) and, lo and behold !, now The Cloud (TM) is where the big money is being made.
What a surprise. Not.
Cloud evangelists have been pushing us in that direction for at least a decade already. It's no surprise that, with the largest multinational corporations throwing tens of billions into The Cloud (TM) and refining their offerings every year, that money is to be made there.
We're back to the mainframe server paradigm of the 70s and 80s, except that now, the mainframe belongs to someone else, you only get a slice of it, you can't discuss conditions and, when your link goes down for whatever reason, you can only wait for the mainframe operator to resolve the issue. Oh, and if you have trouble, a million other people probably do as well.
Yay progress.
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Wednesday 19th August 2020 10:20 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: So the numbers are in
"We're back to the mainframe server paradigm of the 70s and 80s"
Maybe in a simplistic diagram or for a SaaS provider, but the IaaS/PaaS providers provide more flexibility than mainframes ever did both in terms of access and scalability while SaaS providers tend to be more flexible around licensing. While there maybe issues around lock-in or migrating between providers the costs of doing so still look tiny compared to platform swaps in the mainframe world.
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Wednesday 19th August 2020 16:28 GMT a_yank_lurker
Re: So the numbers are in
All the cloud really does is shuffle hardware and wetware around. Someone has to do the work and it has to run on something. So the real question for a company is how to do you want to pay for the hardware and wetware with the corollary being what split between in-house and out-house
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