“Or I can buy my own server for $20,000 and another $20,000 for the firewall and associated equipment.”
That’s a fairly significant server, you must have a lot of customers.
They deserve to have you take better care of their information than the “Cloud”.
“They deserve to have you take better care of their information than the “Cloud”.”
HA, go back to the minor leagues.
I have customers who use amazon servers at night for extra processing. They code in the building process so their app creates the servers, copies apps and data, does the processing, copies the data back, and then shuts the servers down thereby stopping the financial charges. Saves them huge amounts of money. Its processing on demand minus the datacenter, costs, or labor required to build and maintain the infrastructure.
They use local servers for the highly sensitive data.