[talk] NYC*BUG Nov 2: Ike on Infrastructure in a Post-Cloud Era

[Edward Capriolo]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:15 PM, George Rosamond <
george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:

> On 10/27/16 15:15, Edward Capriolo wrote:
> > As a guy who once registered the domain http://groundcomputing.com/ I
> will
> > definitely attend.
>
> Oh, my favorite top-poster on list... Mr. Capriolo.
>
> I missed Ike's earlier version, but this is *that* meeting everyone
> should be pulling their cloud-in-the-brain sysadmins to.
>
> The more general point that is well-understood on this list is that the
> "bare metal-era" never ended, it's just being outsourced, and priced in
> a deceptive manner.
>
> Sure, cloud or hybrid solutions make sense in certain contexts.
>
> I can think of a few cases:
>
> 1. a business that scales seasonally and therefore doesn't want to do
> the capital expenditures on hardware for a few months of use, only to be
> replaced in the next interval.
>
> 2. and most commonly today, a startup that just wants to be acquired,
> and doesn't want capital expenditures on their books.
>
> I'm looking forward to this meeting, and I strongly urge people to drag
> along others who don't get that the cloud is just a marketing term for
> outsourcing hardware.
>
> g
>
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I would say it has to run its course. It will more easily topple when we
need to have fiber and 5(6,7,8) G everywhere. Then the "internet of things"
will be "more real", IP V6 will more "more real". Clouds wont be big data
centers in another state next to a big dam owned by google or apple, but
hardware and software that seamlessly couples. Until we have a true "cloud"
with distributed processing, storage, and routing we will by bound to  the
walmart of computing we have now.
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