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Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years

by gampleman on 10/17/24, 7:17 PM with 3 comments

• by jiehong on 10/17/24, 8:54 PM

  Unless you’re legally required to handle clients’ data in the country in which they reside (more and more common), an on-prem have almost always been cheaper to run (and often faster).

  It does require people with different skills to run it, which has to be taken into account.

  Perhaps one thing that on-prem is bad at is efficiency: historically, companies often have too much capacity, mostly to cover for peaks of activity, but this leads to lower average server utilisation.