The value of adopting public cloud

At first glance, running a private cloud on-premises is a great way to build technology infrastructure. The company would have ownership and control over the land, capacity, and power requirements to ensure that they can plan for and meet the needs of their future customers. You can forecast future capacity requirements, work with vendors to develop a procurement plan, and work with customers to commit to using the future capacity.

One of the common themes that comes up with customers who have taken this approach is the idea of control. They can control where infrastructure is deployed, what application is running on that infrastructure, who can access the data center, and what hardware is used to deploy that infrastructure. However, with control and choice comes complexity and cost. Although they can choose routers, switches, and servers, does that nuance truly matter to the business? At the end of the day, the business just needs the application...