On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 23:40 -0700, Michael Dexter wrote: > On 8/30/16 1:23 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > Amazon's services are often expensive compared to the cost of > > running > > those services in-house on bare metal -- but once you factor in the > > costs of leasing space and building out your own data center, they > > become reasonable. > > Funny you should say that. I work with a storage vendor and while the > "cloud" on-demand model works great for compute, it falls down > completely for storage. A napkin-math calculation for 16TB allowed > you > to buy a new small NAS system every two or three months. :) >
Not to mention the orders of magnitude lower iops available from any cloud provider compared to own servers with SSDs (not counting having dedicated server in a hosting facility somewhere). Clearly, public cloud is not for every workload scenario. That being said - private cloud or a hybrid can solve many performance and cost bottlenecks. IMHO: a) The key is the on demand (to customers) part of cloud and removing the IT + ops barriers between Developers and customers. b) The biggest driver of cloud is often dysfunctional and expensive internal IT. It take a lot of energy and time to get any IT deployed at a corporation, so that one can serve/experiment/co-develop customers fast and what is needed (not what IT can do). _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
