John Furrier23
Q5: Do you see the ongoing use of data center storage and computing equipment on the premises?
Andrew Miller
Yes if have sunk cost - likely not growing for most businesses though. Back to the "Cloud First but not Cloud Only" focus we're starting to see.
Andrew Miller
if you're a new business, the odds that you stand up a datacenter are close to zero though.
Chris Dagdigian
100% yes. Refer back to the ROI math on 1PB of data in AWS NFS vs doing it on-premise. The first time a client gets a $250K storage bill they start rethinking things. Tons of use cases for on-premise storage and infrastructure still
Stuart Miniman
major changes in storage usage take time. Would be great to end the burden of storage migration (Wikibon estimates > 1/3 of TCO). Storage is becoming less of an emphasis - all about data
jeff dinisco
yes, cloud still not cost competitive at PB scale
Keith Townsend - Light will overcome darkness
Yes - more or less. There will be orgs that go all cloud. If you are 100% x86/virtualized, there's a strong argument for all public cloud. However if you have a complex business and need for legacy platforms it's not as simple.
Stephen Pao
Agree with @chris_dag and @dinisco. Datacenter can still provides lower TCO at scale.
Keith Townsend - Light will overcome darkness
There's also the factor of control. Even born in the cloud companies moved to back to all private cloud. Just as data center strategies are revisited every 5 years or so, public vs. private should be revisited as business dictates.
jeff dinisco
@chris_dag exactly, I'd also argue that a customer loses all leverage once they get to multiple PBs in a single cloud
Andrew Miller
@stu very, very much about the data and even more about application-centric models
Andrew Miller
@CTOAdvisor are there Cobol cloud providers? :P
Stuart Miniman
@andriven absolutely
Keith Townsend - Light will overcome darkness
If you have world class operations for a mission critical app, what's the value prop to moving it to the cloud? Save a couple $MM on depreciation but lose a core competence? Not an easy answer.
Andrew Miller
@steve_pao absolutely lower cost at scale...but for any new customer they won't get to that scale quickly. For existing customers a new application or environment could be incrementally less expensive if forklift upgrades are required to handle.
Stephen Pao
@CTOAdvisor And beyond competence is liability. You can outsource ops but you can't outsource liability.