"the only conclusion is that most enterprises should dump
their data centers and move to the public cloud"
What a fucking asinine statement. I stopped reading there.
Why did I stop reading there? Because there's more to gain from controlling your own computing environment than simply money.
In the moment I read that sentence, I knew I was reading propaganda, and I realized I was yet again trapped in the media's Cloud Computing Echo Chamber, where industry shills try to brainwash us into acquiescing unto the inevitable One Data Center To Rule Them All.
Rather than costing a "unit of computer power", which seems quite difficult to evaluate, why not cost the price of a floating point instruction in the cloud (or 1 million fpi if that's better) plus the price of storing the result of that instruction.
Seems like a more concrete thing to evaluate ( closer to what moore law is : not a "processing power" law, but rather something physical and concrete)
Why did I stop reading there? Because there's more to gain from controlling your own computing environment than simply money.
In the moment I read that sentence, I knew I was reading propaganda, and I realized I was yet again trapped in the media's Cloud Computing Echo Chamber, where industry shills try to brainwash us into acquiescing unto the inevitable One Data Center To Rule Them All.