Posted on 10/20/2022 5:01:40 AM PDT by FarCenter
Software-as-a-hostage? Freeing yourself from the fluffy white chains is not easy, even in face of inflation
Public cloud prices are forecast to jump by almost a third in Europe next year as the cost of borrowing and energy squeeze providers. For the US, the expectation is for the price list to jump by a fifth.
The market exploded during the early days of the pandemic as much of the world switched to remote working, and continues to grow upwards of 30 percent each quarter with AWS, Microsoft, and Google the major beneficiaries.
Yet challenges loom, according to Steve Brazier, CEO at channel analyst Canalys, who pointed out that the cost of the ever expanding infrastructure for public cloud is "incredibly expensive."
"It's probably the biggest deployment of capital [that] has ever taken place in an industry and it happens quarter after quarter, year after year," he said at the Canalys Channel Forum EMEA 2022 in Barcelona. "We estimate this year the total spending of our seven top seven hyperscalers on capex will be $140 billion."
This includes buildings, networking gear, and other IT equipment. The analyst estimates, for example, that half of all servers shipped worldwide this year will be consumed by those top seven providers.
"The public cloud is a tremendous success," said Brazier, "and it occurred in the era of cheap money. Things are changing."
The cost of borrowing is rising in Europe. It went up by 22 percent in September, and the cost of energy reached record levels in the region last month. Brazier said he has spoken to datacenter providers whose energy costs quadrupled, so he thinks some of his calculations are perhaps conservative.
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I have no idea what a cloud is but I’m pretty sure I can live without it.
Just about everything you touch is using cloud computing. This increase will be passed along to consumers. Count on it.
My software is free to use, after paying for it.
“All your cloud are belong to us.”
You are using it when you use FR. Or any Internet page. Or email. Or texting.
Software as a hostage. Who didn’t see this coming?
time to print out all my photos because at the end of the day — we will PAY for the digital storage, and they’ll control our power, and when there’s no power and no battery left in your laptop, then todays generation might not even have a printed photo of themselves to pass on.
No, Free Republic is on its own dedicated servers, co-located.
Anyone with their own physical systems is not in a cloud.
Private cloud vs public cloud. Doesn’t make a lot of difference. Things like payment services rerun in MS Azure or Amazon AWS. So even if info is served from a private cloud, many ancillary services are run in public cloud.
It’s not a private cloud, unless you have spare capacity and can automate the expansion and contraction of your own used resources.
Stand alone servers are not a “cloud.”
Cloud = Techie for ‘somebody else’s computers’ ...
Yes and no
Cloud refers to systems that are not in the possession of the owner but are co located, whether the machine is dedicated, or shared or virtualized does not really matter
Of course there are advantages and disadvantages of this, and this article is talking about the disadvantages
Energy costs going up is a giant factor in this as well
>>then todays generation might not even have a printed photo of themselves to pass on.
You could have some monument company engrave them on slabs of granite to make them really permanent.
Clay worked well enough for the Sumerians.
Bean counters and execs. All the IT people saw it as a hostage situation from the start.
You didn't own your data with resource-sharing, so you had to either pay a ton of money to pull off an electronic copy, or use the novel screen scraper software on local PCs running terminal emulation software, to rebuild your database outside of the mainframe.
In a local small city near where I grew up, over 200 separate customers shared the same mainframe. This was a very common setup around the country, and it worked, but networks and servers allowed local ownership of the needed resources, using much cheaper equipment and software.
It was an interesting time, that, with proprietary cloud services on AWS and other cloud providers, looks to be revisited. Terraform doesn't help much with switching clouds, when you are dependent on many services that don't exist is a similar way, between clouds.
FR is essentially running on a “cloud” server.
This is different than running a server from your home or business.
Digital Ocean is a company where anyone can setup a cloud server and its very easy.
They handle system updates and you handle the html code.
Simply use your own servers that run linux.
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