When the bldg300 data center is finally (after 8+ years of false starts and lack of business case) in the cloud, the new ongoing costs will become apparent. And my prediction is that the executive level “surprise” at the true costs will be enormous. Of course there is no leaving the cloud once you are there at scale, so the issue will be figuring out how to pay for it. Some will say re-negotiation will be needed, but is likely unsuccessful with Microsoft as the provider. The cloud migration may result in a migration of more employees out of the company.
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@nc MG talks nonsense most of the time
@kw not what MG says and heard he doesn’t take no for an answer
@kw Rollout on PowerPoint slides doesn't mean a completed project it just means one sever moved form a physical to cloud environment with a project planner managing the transitions of the rest of the servers. It's called the magic of ensuring senior management that things are being done while years go by to complete the project and 2 years after SLT has new projects listed on PowerPoint slides while the rollout has been green (completed) and removed from slides 1 year ago.
@ew No global platform will be rolled out in Q1. No matter what SB says. Guaranteed.
300 is a long way from being fully moved to cloud. Lots of hosts remain that have no migration path.
Doesn't matter. We will run out of cash due to interest rates and salaries way before this becomes an issue.
When IT is in the cloud, companies won't need as many engineers so they will save that way. Also the eventual rhetoric will be that any company that isn't in the cloud isn't "secure" and won't be allow to succeed.
@ew saw this in town hall and thought it was extreme but someone will have a plan……honest
They develop the DocuShit controller in bldg300.
@e6 it’s all getting su-ked into Savvy so they know what they are doing but have no idea on impact globally. MG and GD think that a global platform in Q1 will fix everything. They are doomed
@ah Exactly. I was a recipient of one of the Big 3 firms report to Xerox basically saying (1) cloud migration will not reduce costs. It will lower CapEx but overall costs will rise. And (2) “other benefits and opportunities will exist” but without quantification. Basically the kool-aid was fully consumed, in part because no one wanted to fund bldg 300 data center modernization. And in part because of cloud hype, with the dream of potential massive labor reductions in IT. Drooling, the true costs of cloud were ignored. I hope to be in the room when 2026 cloud costs are revealed.
Will you offshore children stop posting this nonsense? You don’t know anything.
@ah Don’t worry, SteveB will save the day with a sprinkle of AI pixie dust.
It's amazing to watch after these type of transitions occur how even IT executives are like those costs aren't what we were expecting. It's not like it's been pointed out by many industry leaders that this is what happens and people in IT and Finance still act shocked.
But don't worry just like employees; cloud resources can be fired (turned off) at flip of a switch.. don't worry about what is effected or how customers get sc--wed when services those cloud resources are supporting are turned off. And if not turned off you could even go in downgrade the actual virtual hardware with no effect according to marketing gurus.
@OP happening globally