Local and personal vs remote and centralized tends to follow the same pattern as hardware and OSes that this article describes. The wheel turns when the precious iteration gets complex and expensive.
Cloud offered an escape hatch from the nightmare of Microsoft centric enterprise IT and expensive complicated on premise business applications, not to mention the awful bureaucracy of IT departments themselves.
Now I get the sense that cloud has become complicated, expensive, and encrusted with hordes of consultants and vendors layered on top of vendors. A back to local anti-cloud movement has been brewing for a while but hasn’t quite boiled over.
You’ll probably soon start seeing more and more articles about how much money a company saved by leaving cloud.
> Local and personal vs remote and centralized tends to follow the same pattern as hardware and OSes that this article describes. The wheel turns when the precious iteration gets complex and expensive.
I've been looking for a name on such pattern, compression/diffusion based on cost, scale, market. It's so prevalent.
Cloud offered an escape hatch from the nightmare of Microsoft centric enterprise IT and expensive complicated on premise business applications, not to mention the awful bureaucracy of IT departments themselves.
Now I get the sense that cloud has become complicated, expensive, and encrusted with hordes of consultants and vendors layered on top of vendors. A back to local anti-cloud movement has been brewing for a while but hasn’t quite boiled over.
You’ll probably soon start seeing more and more articles about how much money a company saved by leaving cloud.
… and the wheel will turn once again.