Kicking The Cloud To The Curb?
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Interesting. I did not know about that. I did read previously that Amazon makes alot more of its money from the "cloud" than it makes from selling things on line.
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VMWare has about 45% market share in Virtualization. They have a lot of companies by the balls. Broadcom recently purchased VMWare and raised prices by 300% or more in a lot of cases.
What used to cost a company $30k a year in fees is now over 6 figures. Larger contracts that are in the million dollar category are now multi-million dollar contracts moving forward. There is a lot of chatter out there from companies that are screwed because they moved their entire IT infrastructure to VMWare, and other hypervisors essentially doing away with control over their company's IT resources. The Broadcom/VMWare thing has them scrambling to find alternative environments and to migrate their entire IT infrastructure over to a different hypervisor environment. CHA-CHING!
The cloud is not going away and neither are hypervisors but I just have to sit back and laugh because I watched this happen and knew that it wasn't a great thing for everyone to adopt. But most jumped into the world of virtualization and the cloud.
Tech Du jour. In the meantime, I have remained firmly entrenched in a certain development environment for over 40 years watching as the "language/development philosophy Du jour" passed on by. My environment is constantly being updated and keeps pace with technology. I can interface with any API out there if I need to do so.
My clients have enjoyed multi-decade long life cycles for our products and services. It is usually measured in as little as 3 to 5 years and you will be replacing everything.
Once you give up control, it's really hard and expensive to get it back. And adopting something because it's the newest/latest tech is most of the time, very short-sighted.
Idiots.
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The guy is being a bit loose with the terminology.
If I take the "cloud computing" to broadly mean "on-demand availability of computer system resources," that is not going away and is not losing popularity.
"Cloud" can also be run on-premise.Even if we restrict ourselves to talking only about the "public clouds," the revenues of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are all still growing very fast. The growth rate may have slowed as the market matures, but it's still growing, not shrinking.
Yes, they are companies that leave or reduce their use of the public clouds, but on the net there is still more in-flow than out-flow for the public cloud business.
