Re: Power 11 and software vendors? -- MIDRANGE-L

Hi Patrick, Cloud is much more expansive than on-premise. No matter the
platform, being Power or Intel.

The real advantage of Cloud are (especially for small/medium size
companies):
- Buy now what you need and scale when you have to.
- Wide choice of security solutions and DR sulutions at human price.

If the only reason is save money better stay on-prem.

Best regards
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Il giorno sab 12 lug 2025 alle ore 12:49 Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
ha scritto:

Hello Richard,

Am 10.07.2025 um 23:20 schrieb Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Is it worth a small vendor owning a Power 10 or 11 with all the cloud

options available today ?

Depends on the definition of "worth". This decision is not limited to IBM
i, and also depends on secondary (not directly monetary realted) business
decisions. See the message of dr2 from two days ago.

All in all, cloud is still a hyped thing, even if the heat has dissipated
considerably. Still, many decisionmakers blindly believe in cloud as a
universal solution to all of their IT (cost) problems, as advertised by
those trying to milk the maximum out of their customers and invest just a
fraction into sometimes mediocre IT security measures. Security measures
not being adequate for the business model "taking care of 3rd party data"
have been demonstrated over and over again.

From the cost perspective, as "x y" and others said, careful thinking and
planning applied to the individual business case is required. This is
exactly not what was promised to the tie wearers by those early cloud
vendors.

From my personal PoV as sysadmin, security breaches and data loss +
blackmailing are real threats, happening out there just now. If you are a
big player, you're a big target for precisely crafted attacks. This alone
is reason enough for me to stay away from "the cloud". I don't want to have
to explain to my boss or customer that some of his business secrets are now
available for download in the darknet. If the damage is done, it can't be
undone.

And if you're in "the cloud", trying to move to another vendor or back to
local infrastructure will again take a lot of effort, which equals "costs
truckloads of money". Still, people believe in the cloud and — for example
— in nuclear fission as "the solution", not thinking things through to the
end. Sooner or later reality kicks in, and the wailing and whining can be
heard.

Blind faith is bad. Period.

And now there is AI, clearly being the next big thing. Don't get me
started on this one…

:wq! PoC

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