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The cloud upended IT procurement and it's never going back

Posted by rsmiller on · 2 comments
IT Knowledge Exchange; By Ron Miller 		Mail this story
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Once upon a time if you wanted a server for your project, you begged to IT, and if you were lucky in 6 or 8 weeks, maybe you would have access to it. The cloud changed all that because with a service like Amazon Web Services, you can now provision a low-cost server environment with a credit card in about 90 seconds.

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Comments (2)

linux4567 ·
...haven't we had enough of the barely disguised ads for cloud services by Ron Miller on LXer yet?
andrews51 ·
In this case - I sort of agree with the "cloud" advertisement... Although, I typically use Linode...

IaaS works quite well as a cheap - easy to deploy - server platform. And it's also true that its lower upfront cost makes it an easy sell to management. However, as a former government employee, it's much harder to buy IaaS products than actual hardware for public sector use.

As an aside - I personally find it rather instructive to build a server from planning to purchasing to assembling to installing Debian...

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