EDITOR’S QUESTION
space to run my app on but when it goes
wrong, I am on my own to fix it and because
I don’t have access to the behind-the-scene
layers of Azure troubleshooting, it is a lot
more difficult for me. The costs of putting
that app in the cloud to me does not make
sense. I can buy hardware from Dell that has
the best SLA and support and I have visibility
into all of the layers which enhances my
ability to resolve issues.
That said, I don’t think moving everyone
back to the clients’ on-premises is the
answer due to our power situation. The data
centres are geared to run on generators for
days at a time if necessary; not all businesses
can afford that which is one significant
consideration for not bringing everything
back to your own data centre.
What I see happening is clients provisioning
their own private cloud in data centres – they
get the benefit of being in control of their
own systems and having the uptime that
these data centres offer. Customers will
purchase their own hardware and co-locate
this in a data centre.
Our own environment is similar to the above.
We use office 365 for all the messaging
and collaboration tools; we let MS run that
and get on with it. Our ERP system plus
systems management tools that we want
more control over are hosted on our own
equipment within the Hetzner and Teraco
data centres. When our generator recently
failed, we were still able to work by sending
people home and running over 3G, we got
the benefits of cloud but not at the high cost
if we run everything in Azure.
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