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Posit: Private Cloud Has Less Lock-In

6th January 2017 By Greg Ferro Filed Under: Posit

Posit: A private cloud has less lock-in than a public cloud because realistic, practical alternatives exist and migration is possible

  • Moving between public cloud services is practically impossible.
  • It may never be possible.
  • Your business process is hostage to a third party and completely outside of your control from a timeline, cost and change view
  • Consider, your business is under threat and cutting costs is imperative. Your cloud provider is forcing a migration to a updated service and you have fixed time period to complete the upgrade process. You must spend to maintain service. Control is lost
  • Loss of control is a lock in

In private cloud, you have some greater degree of control over these issues. Its a tradeoff.

Addendum: 20170106-17:30

  1. Take for examples, the collapse of public clouds by VMware, Cisco, HPE, Verizon etc. All of these are forcing your business to undertake an activity outside of your control.
  2. Amazon is quite ruthless about forcing customers to fit its technology. Machines are force rebooted, products are deprecated and discontinued reguarly.
  3. Azure if forcing upgrades on its SQL products as a rapid pace, often beyond what customers are able to handle (they don’t have the resources to change their systems).

 

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