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With the war on price per RU being waged by the big three cloud providers, the perception grew that the public cloud was about cost savings. Now, although replacing your outsourced or self-managed IT infrastructure with public cloud services might (!) save you money, there is no promise or guarantee out there that it will. It can be, but certainly doesn’t have to. First, there is more to cloud than just (presumably) cheap capacity, and second: if you let yourself be guided by short-term cost cuts rather than long-term competitive advantage, then you’ve not understood AWS, Google and Azure at all. Go back and start again – by reading this article. Cloud = Cheaper Compute, Network and Storage? Many times I have seen the term of cloud being used to describe bare computing and storage capacity plus the associated network infrastructure. This happens if you speak to traditional outsourcing companies or hardware vendors about IT infrastructure – and with their client base. Let’s be cl...

The Clock is ticking faster Some Executive of a certain DVD rental company in the US once said in an interview, that he doesn’t believe in movie streaming on demand via the internet. This is some years ago. His company is no more. Movie streaming reigns supreme via Apple, Amazon, Netflix and others. A spokesman of the global energy institute denies the feasibility of renewables replacing carbon and nuclear in the next decades in a documentary called “The 4 th Revolution” by a german film maker. I guess he’ll not see himself proven right. Who knows what will become of his employer.  All throughout history, the existing is challenged by the upcoming. The old are challenged by the young. Adaptability is what makes you last. Refusing to adapt means refusing to survive. Those who denied electricity, did not last. Those who denied the first industrial revolution, were left behind. Those who denied the internet, perished. I guess that is why almost every car manufacturer by now ...