[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[kemain.nospam at gmail.com]

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>From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj via
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>Cc: Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk>
>Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives
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>On 3/6/2022 2:42 PM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
>>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj
>>> via Info-vax On 3/6/2022 8:56 AM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> "Public Cloud" is just another name for outsourcing parts of your IT
>>>> to other vendors like Microsoft (Azure), Amazon (AWS) in return for
>>>> paying a fee for monthly services your company has contracted with.
>>>>
>>>> Like outsourcing, moving to a public cloud means you are leaving
>>>> behind those portions of your current service model that you decide
>>>> can be done better by someone other than your current provider e.g.
>>>> your internal IT
>>>
>>> I believe that flexibility/scalability and the paying for usage model
>>> is what is driving cloud not a desire to out-source.
>>>
>>
>> The capacity on demand model (COD) has been around for numerous
>> decades and was/is available from many vendors.
>>
>>> But cloud does imply some outsourcing.

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>It is possible that some outsourcing people like to think about it that way.
>
>But they are totally missing the point.
>
>Cloud and outsourcing are orthogonal aspects.
>
>Cloud is about using another companies hardware.
>
>Outsourcing is about using another companies people.
>
>They can be freely combined.
>

Traditional outsourcers have in the past purchased new HW to run a Customers SW e.g. SAP for them in the outsourcers DC i.e. they used their own HW to run Customer solutions. 

They would simply take the new HW/SW purchase costs (internal costs for companies like HP, IBM), add in costs of X management resources, licensing etc. and price them on a monthly basis over a 5-7 year period, then add 25% (estimate) to the monthly cost. They might reduce their resourcing costs by using offshore resources. They will of course know that changes is where they will make their real $'s over the 7 years as each change request (CR) is a real cost to the Customer.

In todays Cloud world, Cloud vendors pitch "IT Lite" solutions like cost per cpu and "only paying for what you use". 

That is one of the biggest marketing con's since the 70's when mainframes were charging "pay per use" timesharing solutions.

[snip]
>
>But in the end the number are pretty clear.
>
>IaaS public cloud market is growing around 25% per year. And it is expected to
>continue so for the next 5 years.
>
>Arne
>

Perhaps for S-M companies, but as the Forbes Aug 21 article I quoted, large companies are certainly not following this strategy.


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com




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