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... and move into public housing where it's a lot cheaper, and where companies can make money from their private lives. Is IT about saving money, or about giving companies competitive edges? Multitenancy does not make a company competitive in a particular area. It just provides a relatively cheap means for a company to get into a race. If you want to win a race (or at least be ahead of the pack) do you take a series of public buses to get you to your end point, or do you get your own car over which you have control, which can fine tune as you see fit, in order to win or do well in the race? All this suggestion that public cloud computing is the answer for most companies is simply not true. Public clouds are great: for startup or resource constained companies; or to serve as as a means for sampling services or consuming services not critical to companies. In most all other cases, companies should endeavor to have some critical IT infrastructure they have direct control of, to ensure the company's own destiny - since no one cares more about a company, than the company itelf.
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