Re: Loadsa AC's in here...
"Companies move things to the cloud right now in large part because the monthly billing mechanism allows them to bypass internal purchasing regulations. It's politics - not prudence - that makes cloud computing attractive."
You clearly have no knowledge of what you speak. Public cloud services are almost always vastly cheaper than the fully loaded costs of building, hosting, licensing and supporting infrastructure and applications in house - unless you are large enough to have massive economies of scale and are happy to run all of your support and technogy out of third world countries...
For instance it is currently cheaper to subscribe to Office 365 (that includes the full Office client!) than to license Office on it's own - and that's without even looking at the infrastructure, license and support savings!
"VCE versus cloud comes out roughly a wash. "
Lol - VCE is one of the most expensive platform capex. choices that you can make - you pay for fast deployment and preconfigured standardised tested systems and are forced to use the most expensive Hypervisor. The cost per VM is usually going to be strastosherically higher than public cloud. You clearly have never been anywhere near a senior role that has the information, knowledge and experience to make these type of decisions.
"Christ, man, it costs over $1500 a year to run a single 2GB Linux VM in the fucking cloud!"
On which planet? I pay £23.68 per Linux VM a month before discounts:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenario=virtual-machines
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