> > For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of > direct operational control. >
Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what happens when the Magic Cloud provider fails in a way that isn't possible to anticipate because it's all black box. Saving 12 months of opex $ sounds great, except when you lose 18 months of opex $ in 2 days completely outside of your ability to control. On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 9:46 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote: > > > On 1/26/22 16:41, Randy Bush wrote: > > > s/de-risk/re-risk/ > > > > it's just a different risk > > I should have finished that sentence with "de-risk their infrastructure > spend", because the actual risk is in having to spend money upfront to > build the network. > > For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of > direct operational control. > > Mark <= who run way from a suggestion to run iBGP route reflectors in > AWS :-). > > Mark. >
