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... seems to me like giving up your car for public transportation. Beyond cost savings, I don't see the compelling advantages of attempting a wholesale shift to public clouds. It is one thing to augment your data center with public services, it is however something very different to hand over the care of your company's nervous system, to another company (which ultimately you know little about) that could be hundreds or thousands of miles away, when you really don't have to. All on-premise companies have to do to combat public clouds, is package their solutions better - like providing turnkey systems which customers can enhance and extend via services they can easily turn on. Also on-premise companies should have unified billing, simplified management, and more payment options such as leasing and financing. Also on-premise companies should have building block / module solutions, that can easily snap into and out of customers' data centers, to accommodate scenarios such as customers wanting to rent modules for peak business seasons, and be charged metered rates.
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