Why Cloud Did Not Kill The Data Center
hyperview, Tuesday, May 30,2023
Back in the day, you know, pre-cloud, life in the data center may have not been easy, but at least it was under control. Well, sort of. We controlled the vendors (we thought). We controlled growth (well, our users did that).
But the big issue was controlling costs. But then along came Cloud Computing. Cloud was presented as the cure to all of our data center ailments by industry influencers, CFOs, armchair quarterbacks, and even airline magazines.
Migrating to a cloud model would reduce costs and let me focus on consumption pricing; reduce complexity by moving backend software and hardware support to the provider; and increase agility by letting my developers use all those nifty new tools that were emerging daily from cloud providers. The data center was heading the way of the dinosaurs!