As public cloud spend goes up, will the pendulum swing back to enterprise data centers? Sorry, but there is no pendulum to swing back.
A pendulum exists only when you treat a public cloud as a compute center and not as a platform.
The top three clouds offer 60–100 services each today. These are well integrated to help get a lot of work done. Each of these have ecosystem of services built around them, and are growing strong as platforms. The fact that each of these platforms run in compute centers is just a necessary detail. Once you start building businesses on top of these platforms and are generating value, there is no going back.
Here is an analogy. Smart phones are certainly more expensive than feature phones. But feature phones are not coming back. Today’s smart phones are build around platforms.
See Also
- How to Think About Multi-Cloud (Sunday, March 12, 2017)
- State of AWS Compute Pricing (Saturday, February 25, 2017)
- Fault Domains and the Vegas Rule (Friday, February 17, 2017)
- Cloud Lock-in and Change Agility (Monday, December 12, 2016)
- Don’t Build Private Clouds (Thursday, November 24, 2016)
- Turning Containers into Cattle (Sunday, February 21, 2016)
- It’s the Manageability Stupid (Tuesday, November 10, 2015)
- Lessons from the Cloud Bunker (Sunday, August 16, 2015)
- OpenStack Summit Keynote Video and Slides (Monday, June 1, 2015)
- Give Me Bare-Metal (Monday, November 10, 2014)
- OpenStack on Diet (Tuesday, November 4, 2014)
- Automate Everything — But Don’t Ignore Drift (Monday, October 6, 2014)
- Monitoring and Alerting for OpenStack (Thursday, October 17, 2013)
- Private Cloud Operating Principles (Monday, September 16, 2013)
- OpenStack is not Cloud (Thursday, July 25, 2013)
- ClickOps (Sunday, June 23, 2013)
- Code the Infra (Saturday, April 13, 2013)