[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/7/2022 7:13 PM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj via Info-vax
>> 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.
That is frequently seen in the outsourcing business.

It is practically unheard of in the public cloud business.

You got a menu and that's it. Only cloud customer I know that are
able to get special offerings is the US government.

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

Large companies have a real option of going private cloud if
they want to.

But many choose not to.

A few weeks ago we discussed banks and I did a quick search:

Barclays - private cloud
Deutsche Bank - Google cloud
HSBC - Amazon cloud
JP Morgan - multi cloud
Bank of America - IBM cloud
Citibank - private cloud
Goldman Sachs - Amazon cloud
BNP Paribas - private cloud
UBS - Microsoft cloud

1/3 private cloud 2/3 public cloud.

Arne