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Am I the only person who wants to publicly talk about hyperscaler cloud providers nickel and diming their customers? Behind closed doors people constantly bemoan them, but publicly it seems as if nobody wants to criticise. Years ago, when the concept of cloud was first devised, the promise was: lower costs and more flexible on-demand computing...a dream AWS originally sold to us! In reality we've ended up in a world where a handful of giant providers lock businesses into their ecosystem. Once you're in, it's virtually impossible to get out and you play by their rules...constant price increases, hidden fees, new charges for features that were previously free, and proprietary lock-in. When will companies wake up to the inflated costs of hyperscalers and the damage it's doing to their business growth, especially when you add in the complexity involved in managing services with a hyperscaler. Before the cloud, IT infrastructure spend was a mere fraction of the proportion that companies spend today. At the rate we're going, it's going to become a much bigger percentage than companies even spend on their staff – and it's all going to a handful of giant companies who globally pay low single figure tax % contributions. Is this what cloud was meant to be? At Civo, we're delivering on the original promise of cloud. We're committed to working for our customers and not with interests purely aligned to shareholders, no short-termism through nickel and diming to hit another quarter's earnings target!!! It's about resetting the balance and delivering a cloud that is fair, equitable and open, which stays true to the original promise of the cloud, by supporting business growth and not hindering companies through escalating costs, vendor lock-in and other things that are taken from your control. Change needs to happen...it's coming.

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The most critical cost for many businesses and startups in this digital age is the cost of tech infrastructure- its really killing, if you know, you know. Businesses around the world are becoming aware of what consumes their business operating profit. For developers, its cool to write code and care not where the applications sit at the end of the day- because writing code is pretty much fun- this is common in the data space- write code on notebooks and keep it somewhere. Oftentimes, nobody thinks of what is the plan to scale this application, where does this application sit- on-prem or public cloud? - this is a big question every business leader must ask before starting any tech business. For accountants- we most time value IT infrastructure as assets and take them to the balance sheet because they refer to them as CAPEX. Please note that migrating your business IT infrastructure to a public cloud like #AWS, #Azure or #GCP would automatically make your infrastructure become OPEX - that is, it must be evaluated in your P&L. For business leaders, there is a dire need for us to monitor tech infrastructure spend on a daily basis. Most startups could not sustain the infrastructure debt and reason they collapsed. #techcommunity #cloudcomputing #datascience #dataanalytics #datamining #infrastructure #infrastructureascode #onpremise #cloud

In the eight Years I have been "involved" in cloud I have seen it grow and morph from something that was promoted as a distinct way of saving money and easing the delivery of IT infrstructure in an easily consumable efficient way... obviously there have been so many other reasons why cloud remains a very good option for so many. That said this thread is an extremly good read for any organisation considering a cloud strategy or any organisation at the point of engaging either with a cloud provider or with a specialist Partner like Rackspace who can and do advise on all types of Cloud, from writing cloud strategies for organisations to delivering Consulting services and then delivering anything from some simple hosting right through to the full delivery of multi-cloud solutions and services in both the Public and Private Sectors. According to a hyperscaler Report, of all of the organisations that could use cloud solutions and services only about 20% are. This means that there is still a huge amount of reluctance to do so or a lot of advice needs to be given, preferably by independant Partners as to why cloud rermains a superb option for so many reasons if done well and controlled and delivered based on a set of parameters that are known, understood and agreed with the Partner you work with. I would encourage any Organisation to read this thread and then get in touch to discuss you IT infrastructure delivery needs and options in detail. Rackspace Technology have been delivering value to Customers since the end of the nineties. (As an aside to all of the above Rackspace Technology invented OpenStack with NASA and it remains a fantastic alternative to a certain Hypervisor provider who have just been acquired and are now increasing your Licensing costs by up to 400%! Another reason to get in touch)

We are clearly in the middle of significant consolidation in the infrastructure market. Much press has been focused on open source licensing or multi-cloud strategies, while the big story is the hyperscalers continue to march with their own ambitions without concern for anyone else. Enterprises use multiple clouds - very rarely multi-cloud. This reality impacts anyone trying to provide abstractions, portability, or in general cloud operating models that depart from cloud-specific techniques. As the market rotates from infrastructure to automation to AI - we have some strong lessons to learn on how to blend operations, scale, and velocity. #NetworkAutomation #InfrastructureAutomation #Cloud #CloudAutomation #Hashicorp Scott Raynovich

This week, we said goodbye to a true pioneer in our company's history – our very first physical server. It wasn't much to look at on top of a kitchen cabinet in our co-founder László Fülöp sublet back in the early days. But it held our dreams and our code, and that's what mattered.   Seeing it finally shut down got me thinking about the cloud. It's a game-changer for so many businesses, but the decision isn't always straightforward.    Scalability and cost savings are huge draws, of course, but data security is a top concern.   For global companies, the cloud seems like a no-brainer, even for core operations. Private cloud could be the answer here, offering the benefits without compromising control.   Even for non-global companies, the cloud is often a win. 9 times out of 10, it excels for non-critical systems. You get better performance and lower cost. A real win-win.   The cloud revolution has come a long way since those early days in László Fülöp kitchen (18 years ago!). It's exciting to see how it continues to shape the software development landscape, offering new opportunities and efficiencies for companies of all sizes.