Re: Cloud services
Add to reasons for not having a cloud
5) The cost of having people procuring the hardware
6) Maintaining a data center, and patching the servers.
7) The one-off costs of upgrading old hardware can be much harder to get approved than a higher steady cost of renting capacity. I've seen plenty of examples of production systems running on obsolete unsupported hardware and OS because it was never cost effective to upgrade it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
