Dell Says He’s Winning Back Customers From `Pricey’ Public Cloud
May 10, 2017
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Editorial Staff.
Michael Dell said his company is seeing some customers return to buying equipment after discovering that working with the giant cloud-computing providers is more complicated and costlier than they thought. Hardware from Dell Technologies Inc. is getting a second look from companies finding that outsourcing their computing needs to the public cloud—big providers such as Amazon.com Inc., and Microsoft Corp.—can be twice as expensive or more as running it themselves, Dell said Monday.
While he didn’t provide specifics, Dell added "it’s not small numbers; it’s large numbers." "We’re not saying public cloud is not going to happen or it’s not going to grow—it is. It’s just not perfect for all workloads. And everything is not going to go to the public cloud," said Dell, who had earlier referred to the phenomenon as sort of a "boomerang" effect…
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