Tag: publiccloud
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Large enterprises continue to run a hybrid model for the foreseeable future. After more than 15 years of cloud migration, just over 54% of production workloads have been moved to the public cloud.” IDC, November 2025 survey 🔗 Enterprises Continue to Leverage Both Private and Public Cloud as Data Grows
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When to stay public – Modeling staying in public cloud versus moving out of it. 🔗 Leaving the Cloud Isn’t for Everyone
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Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 22.5% in 2024 –
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Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud in Federal IT Modernization – More on the Broadcom private cloud survey.
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Words Matter – “but the point is really that public services should be effective, not disruptive.”
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Patterns vs Platforms – It’s all hard stuff. Instead of centralized platforms, perhaps consider public cloud instead, mixed with conventions. Variation: don’t build your own platform, outsource it to a vendor/cloud.
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Maximizing value, controlling cost with cloud FinOps – “Among current users, 56% report that spending on public cloud was significantly over budget (by 30% or more) or somewhat over (by 10%-30%) in 2022, compared with 45% of respondents saying the same in 2021. Multiple factors cause organizations to overshoot their budgets for public cloud services…
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Scaling Beyond the Pilot in Public Sector Organizations –
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Link: Private cloud spending is increasing, not decreasing
By end of the year, IDC projects public cloud spending will account for 68.2 percent of total IT equipment spending, growing at an annual rate of 36.9 percent. Original source: Private cloud spending is increasing, not decreasing
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Link: Red Hat’s James Talks About the Importance of Open Source Innovat
People always want MSPs is to add higher level services, to become more like public cloud. Also, some arch open source/lock-in talk. Original source: Red Hat’s James Talks About the Importance of Open Source Innovat
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Link: Technology Spending by the Numbers: From Public Cloud to Security Measures – TheStreet
Nifty chart. Original source: Technology Spending by the Numbers: From Public Cloud to Security Measures – TheStreet
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Link: The Hidden Costs of Cloud Adoption
Despite it being aw some, you still have to pay for public cloud, and it’s pay as you go: ‘“Cloud is an inexpensive and easily accessible technology,” the infrastructure survey concludes. “People consume more, thereby spending more, and forget to control or limit their consumption.”’ So: “the market analyst found that 34 percent of enterprises…
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Link: Private cloud TCO and such, from 451
“private cloud can be a less expensive option for enterprises than public cloud. Forty-one percent of 150 IT decision-makers surveyed in February 2017 as part of a custom 451 Research project for VMware claimed to be operating their own private clouds at lower unit costs than public cloud.” Link to original
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Link: Billionaire CEO and investor Marc Benioff says unicorn startups manipulated private markets and he’s done investing in them
“The unicorn thing, I’ve been saying for a while now, is not great,” Benioff told Stephanie Ruhle on Bloomberg GO earlier this week. “The reason why it’s not great is not necessarily that these companies are not worth this much money or whatever — we don’t actually know because they’ve manipulated the private markets to…

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