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The economics of various cloud models has been hotly debated back-and-forth for over four years. Are public clouds cheaper? Are private clouds cheaper? Under what circumstances is one form of cloud more cost-effective than another? I don't think we'll ever have the definitive answer, but there's some interesting new data to contemplate, courtesy of the recent EMC analyst day. For most people doing IT at any reasonable scale, the number shows that private clouds can be significantly less expensive than public alternatives in many situations. And that's *before* any concerns about availability, security, regulatory compliance, control, etc. are factored in. What Brought This About As part of David Goulden's strategy session, he shared EMC's views of where application workloads would likely reside in 2016. As application workloads go, so go the storage requirements in support of them. David's model presume two broad categories of applications. The largest count -- by far -- are the traditional applications that are so famiiar in enterprise settings: Oracle, SAP, Microsoft et. al. Growing nicely, too. The second category is described as "cloud apps" -- built using modern frameworks and tools. Much fewer in number, but expected to experience spectaculr growth. EMC forecasts that --... |
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