“Right now, the bank estimates its private cloud is 25 to 30% cheaper than public providers, though it also recognizes that probably won't last forever.”
After a meetup this spring, someone talked my ear off about how Dell is highly motivated to have a private cloud solution that works for people.
Having Dell and Amazon in a bidding war over your next project is probably the best world you can be in.
For my money, you should run one data center in the same location with most of your tech talent, and a second one geographically distant, and regionally load balanced.
But we typically don’t write our software for this, and you can’t get the business to do a rewrite until they see how stupid expensive a lift and shift ends up being.
I think these narratives about saving money are typically covering up a story of how much was squandered starting five quarter ago...
Unfortunately, Dell’s private cloud solution exists today, and it’s an 18 layer shit sandwich of all the disparate companies that Michael Dell has stitched together into his holding empire.
