>Businesses’ main motive for moving to the cloud was never about cost but “scalability”: having access to additional computing resources with a few clicks.
That's not accurate because many businesses do migrate for cost reasons. Especially for internal non-public facing servers like email. E.g. They moved from self-hosted Microsoft Exchange servers to cloud-managed email like Office 365 Exchange Online -- or switch to another cloud competitor like G Suite.
>Ms Wang and Mr Casado have suggested that firms should think about building their own private clouds to keep costs down. So far few firms have opted for such “repatriation”, which is both costly and makes it harder for businesses to enjoy the benefits of essentially unlimited computing resources in the public cloud.
If the company's business profit is not in the tech sector (like The Guardian), this means its IT datacenter operations is not its core competency which makes it hard to build internal IT that can keep up with AWS capabilities. Tech businesses like Dropbox, Facebook, can hire & maintain skilled IT staff like AWS but most other non-tech businesses can't.
That's not accurate because many businesses do migrate for cost reasons. Especially for internal non-public facing servers like email. E.g. They moved from self-hosted Microsoft Exchange servers to cloud-managed email like Office 365 Exchange Online -- or switch to another cloud competitor like G Suite.
>Ms Wang and Mr Casado have suggested that firms should think about building their own private clouds to keep costs down. So far few firms have opted for such “repatriation”, which is both costly and makes it harder for businesses to enjoy the benefits of essentially unlimited computing resources in the public cloud.
As a case study, The Guardian newspaper tried building their own private cloud and failed. They ultimately just went with AWS: https://web.archive.org/web/20160319022029/https://www.compu...
If the company's business profit is not in the tech sector (like The Guardian), this means its IT datacenter operations is not its core competency which makes it hard to build internal IT that can keep up with AWS capabilities. Tech businesses like Dropbox, Facebook, can hire & maintain skilled IT staff like AWS but most other non-tech businesses can't.