[Info-vax] The new world that VMS will be living in

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/7/2020 10:33 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 12/7/2020 3:49 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> You need to find a reliable vendor.
>>
>> Your neighbors nephews garage company does not cut it.
> 
> You don't know what my neighbor's nephew is offering ...

(IaaS) cloud is a pretty expensive business to be in.

It seems to require investment of 1 B$ per quarter to stay
competitive.

>> For IaaS cloud I would go for one of the 3 big ones (Amazon,
>> Microsoft, Google) or one of the traditional enterprise
>> vendors (IBM, Oracle).
>>
>> I would avoid the small unknown companies they could and
>> likely will go out of business.
> 
> If everyone listened to you ....
> 
> But perhaps some smaller providers might offer a better and safer service.

They can't compete with the economies of scale from the big ones.

Not price wise and not regarding investing in tools and processes.

What they can do and what some of them do is to provide value
added services on top of basic IaaS from one of the big players.

> If your "big 3" don't see competition, why should they get any better?

3 big ones and with IBM and Oracle wanting to become big, then
there are competition.

Which is sort of proven by how fast cloud evolve.

>> And I would avoid the Chinese
>> companies (Alibaba, Tencent) due to risk of the relationship
>> between China and the west going totally sour.
> 
> It's already sour.
> 
> Don't kid yourself, the ChiComs goal is world domination.  They may be 
> patient.  But I'm sure the people of Hong Kong can tell you how the 
> ChiComs keep their word.

It is already sour, but it can get worse.

At some point them turning off access for western companies
can become an option.

Arne