It would be interesting to see the actual numbers on how much such a transition will cost.
Can their existing mainframe software and databases simply migrate into a cloud offering? If not, then if their planned transition has delays or technical hurdles, how much of that cost savings is affected?
If their cloud providers change pricing structures in future contract negotiations or if the amount of data they transfer in/out of each cloud provider location changes dramatically in order to better serve their customers, how much of that cost savings is affected?
It's clear that you can run a business with minimal amount of physical plant for servers. It's still not entirely clear to me that large established businesses can actually save money this way.
Can their existing mainframe software and databases simply migrate into a cloud offering? If not, then if their planned transition has delays or technical hurdles, how much of that cost savings is affected?
If their cloud providers change pricing structures in future contract negotiations or if the amount of data they transfer in/out of each cloud provider location changes dramatically in order to better serve their customers, how much of that cost savings is affected?
It's clear that you can run a business with minimal amount of physical plant for servers. It's still not entirely clear to me that large established businesses can actually save money this way.