https://www.itnews.com.au/news/microsofts-vmware-azure-stack-neither-certified-nor-supported-478352?eid=1&edate=20171124&utm_source=20171124_AM&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter
But yeah, VMware would say that, I guess. On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 5:12 PM, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 at 12:43 Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I haven’t seen the latest list, but my current (and previous two) >> employer was on the list a couple of years ago. And whilst we can probably >> get hardware pretty cheap, that’s not the bulk of the cost of running >> something on-premise. Talking about hardware costs is talking about the >> wrong thing. I’m not saying that cloud is cheaper (it probably isn’t), but >> it gives you agility and flexibility, and time-is-money. >> > > Correct; and I have come to be 180 degree opposed to where I was on cloud > 5-6 years ago. > > It is very easy for the anti-cloud people to point to a piece of tin and > say 'that hardware was $400K and it lasts us 3-4 years'. It is much harder > to point to all of the operational staff costs, downtime from hardware not > being run properly, full suites of ops software that are just built into > cloud solutions. > > I could stand you up a global data centre in Azure with BGP routing and > all the active fail over DR you want in a couple of hours. Try doing that > with tin and wan service providers. > > The article says: > *"First and foremost, Fortune 500-size corporations that can’t negotiate > pricing for servers and storage comparable to what Amazon and Microsoft pay > for the gear they use to run AWS and Azure just aren’t trying very hard. > They have access to the same technology management tools, practices, and > talent, too."* > > Which is just bullshit for IaaS and REALLY bullshit for PaaS solutions > like Azure SQL Database. > > -- > David Connors > [email protected] | @davidconnors | https://t.me/davidconnors | LinkedIn > | +61 417 189 363 > -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
