2U server. Probably 48+ cores. 1.5TB of RAM. I have no damn idea what companies even build datacenters for anymore.https://twitter.com/thefarseeker/status/826546958064025601 …
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Universities all need a Datacenter unless you want to pay their student lab cloud bills? I don’t!
Did you read the tweet I was replying to? This is not datacenter volume. It's "one mid to high end box" volume.
Mmm. Banks? They use machines in the tens of thousands, have an awful lot of data, transactions, regulatory requirements...
I don't think you understand the vastness of modern storage and computing power. It's mostly wasted on inefficient distributed architectures.
True. But I understand how banking tech works, regulatory requirements, legacy systems and migration costs. Migrations that cost more than many start-ups market value.
Really? Agree this is the case for a lot of businesses, particularly smaller ones. Not so much for larger ones. A lot of room for hybrid scenarios in these cases but not full cloud.
Netflix runs on aws.
You do need to invest heavily on personnel and custom tooling if you are really big but have specialised needs. That can become really costly, so at some points in the curve a hybrid solution is a viable option, might even be cheaper.
It costs more to do that in Hybrid, not less. The only reasons not to do 100% public cloud are if you already are heavily invested in a datacenter or if you have stupid compliance rules preventing public cloud.
Not necessarily, horses for courses. If you are majority modern apps then sure, not so much for legacy apps.
If you're majority legacy apps you're gonna already be heavily invested in a datacenter. People don't start new businesses on legacy apps.
You must take into account that a lot of coros have both legacy and modern apps. Plus they already have infrastructure in place plus their staff is trained to work with that. To shift to cloud only you would need to find people or train existing ones,
And move your existing infra. All that costs money, tune and demands a paradigm shift. That's why you see corps slowly migrating old stuff, but being more aggressive on new apps or integrating existing components cloud-side.
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