Posts by Adi Chiru

AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen

A lot of good points but a few very misinformed premises

Can't debate everything in one comment but 1/ I would suggest to make sure that there is good distinction between multi-cloud and many-cloud. There is no success example today of a multi-cloud setup that actually works for a reasonably complex company. 2/ lock-in is not what was infered here; there is no lock-in when the customer chooses your tech because it is better than any alternative or so innovative that nobody else gives you the same benefits.

Jilted AWS reckons VMware is now crusty like a mainframe

Re: Wall Street push AWS to raise price significantly

Any specific examples that make your predictions true?

Re: Golden rules of Cloud

On-premises can only make sense if you have extremely well developed supply chain ops for your tech, otherwise, static or not, it doesn't make sense to remain on-premises (with the exception of when you've invested already in hardware and you have to ride it...)

Re: Out of the frying pan....

That is true if you made the mistake to use AWS as a data center and not as a cloud services provider. If you start using their other services, you will likely find serious savings and opportunities. But then I heard people saying that's lock-in because you când move to other cloud provider... You can't claim lock in after you use a superior service and then you hate not having it if you want to move out...

Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle

In reality, over 70% (likely much more) will leave VMware and Broadcom because Broadcom has been in incredibly irresponsible and unprofessional and literally bullied a lot of customers. I was shocked to be part of how Broadcom treated many long term users of VMware and they all are moving away. And most quite like VMware Tech and could have been happy on it for a few more years.

Research suggests more than half of VMware customers are looking to move

Over 70% ARE leaving VMware

I can assure you only 70% of current VMware customers are leaving already, most will complete transition within 2 years, even big ones with over 10k VMs.

VMware has been shit in the head by Broadcom. Nothing unclear about it.

Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome

Are you serious?!

Broadcom, under current CEO is not worth considering a viable company to work with in any sense. VMware destruction is only their last epic fail. Why write an article that is not even half reality?!

The title is ludicrous...

Guess what? Ask clouds to behave like old-school vendors, they will – and you lose

I don't think there is a good understanding of the concept of vendor lock in. Vendor lock in is intentional, when you as a client agree to a contract that has punitive clauses in it in case you want to leave.

Getting into using a product because it is technically apealing, has features you can't build yourself, has security you can't build yourself etc. is not lock in.

Imagine a small company that creates the new youtube. They did not have to build datacenters, extremely performant technologies for fast scale up and down and yet they get to use that for a few hundred dollars during development and then scale as needed. Of course the cost scales too, you get to use shit you would have not invented yourself in 50 years, to run your app at global adoption rates of today.

Lock in is not providing good, innovative services, technology etc.; it is signing contracts on the golf courts and then finding out that you need to pay fines to get away!