question about the "smaller guys" in cloud (Oracle, IBM):
Do these companies operate their own data centers all over the world to make their cloud offerings work?
"Cloud" is kind of a magical handwavy way to say "don't worry about where the computers are, it will just work." With AWS and Azure I don't worry about where the computers are, because they're all over the world (and even under water, if you follow publicity stunts).
But where are the massive IBM/Oracle/etc data centers? Are they out there, and I just don't know about it?
Do these companies operate their own data centers all over the world to make their cloud offerings work?
"Cloud" is kind of a magical handwavy way to say "don't worry about where the computers are, it will just work." With AWS and Azure I don't worry about where the computers are, because they're all over the world (and even under water, if you follow publicity stunts).
But where are the massive IBM/Oracle/etc data centers? Are they out there, and I just don't know about it?