Cloud Migration Is Back (If You Ignore the Actual Numbers) (indiadispatch.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/15/166250/cloud-migration-is-back-if-you-ignore-the-actual-numbers
- Source link: https://indiadispatch.com/2024/11/15/cloud-migration-is-back-if-you-ignore-the-actual-numbers/
> The cloud migration narrative that powered tech valuations during the pandemic is attempting a comeback, but the underlying data suggests a more complex story.
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> UBS's new survey of IT services reveals a striking disconnect between industry expectations and customer reality. While executives proclaim "2025 will be far better than what we've seen in 2024," their enterprise clients report having migrated merely 15% of workloads to the cloud, with the remainder presenting increasingly complex challenges.
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> The numbers are particularly telling: Growth rates for major cloud providers AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have declined from pandemic peaks of 40-50% to 10-20%. IT budgets for 2024, meanwhile, are projected to be "flattish to up very slightly, maybe a couple percent," marking a significant departure from the explosive growth of recent years.
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Good. I make good money migrating them BACK (Score:2)
Trendy management migrates to the cloud because it's got a hype factor. Then when they realize they are hemorrhaging money and they want to go back to self-hosting in the computer room or data center down the street, they have to pay the piper again. I'm the piper.
I've actually seen the reverse already (Score:2)
de-migration. I knew this was going to happen. Someone in the government gets a recurring cloud bill and doesn't want to pay the cost anymore. They come up with estimates of the cost to go back to on-prem and do so.
My view is that it's hard to come up with a case where the cloud saves much money for anyone. Even if you got rid of some of your IT support, you'd be stuck getting more cloud developers to do the same things you had your hardware guys doing on-prem - troubleshooting and monitoring.
The govern
Our company plans on going back (Score:2)
The company I work for, moved all of our workstations to VMware cloud. They have now realized that it costs much more, have signed up for a single point of failure, poor GPU performance for those who need it... The dream of shared hardware resources saving money is not really working as promised. They are now planning a move back to under the desk computers. I guess for the current state of HW technology, cloud has touched it's economic ceiling.
The cloud is a trap (Score:2)
Run away
I know why (Score:2)
If you are using one garbage cloud provider with constant issues and outages and you sign up for another cloud provider to migrate to them instead, it looks like a new customer.