Amazon dismisses ‘old guard’ IT vendors stuck on private cloud computing models

Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Daniel Robinson.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is touting the benefits of leading with public cloud infrastructure when adopting a cloud computing strategy, claiming that "old guard" private cloud providers cannot offer key benefits such as pay-per-use and scale on demand. The firm was also keen to highlight its security credentials in light of recent revelations of NSA snooping and the like.

At Amazon’s AWS Enterprise Summit in London, senior vice president Andy Jassy told an audience of corporate technical leaders that cloud computing was the future of IT delivery, and that it made more sense to outsource this to a public cloud provider such as AWS than to build it themselves. "The reason customers typically get started with the cloud is cost…

It’s a huge advantage if you don’t have to lay out any cost for servers up front before you can even start deploying new applications and services," Jassy said. According to Jassy, the "old guard" technology companies initially poured scorn on cloud computing, and later reluctantly adopted it, wheeling out private cloud as a way of preserving their traditional business models. "The old guard technology companies charge enterprises as much as they are willing to pay under the traditional IT model," he said…

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