Your customers are an anecdote, now compare that to the publicly reported numbers from AWS, GCP and Azure where they all say the only thing keeping them from growing more is the chip shortage.
Oh I'm sure they'll continue to have some cloud services, no doubt. But look at VMware for example, even after the insane price increases. Nutanix also seems to be doing quite well. I'm seeing a fair amount of on-prem bare metal k8s too.
Again - anecdotes is not data. We have data. That would be about as silly as me citing my own experience as proof that “everyone is moving to AWS” when I work for a company that is exclusively an AWS partner consulting company.
You have data showing growth in cloud, which I expect and don't disagree with. The data I come across shows this too!
What I disagree with, from my own experiences and all the data I can seem to find online is that the growth rate in repatriation is MUCH higher than the growth in cloud.
It has flipped over the last 3yr.
US Enterprises, Fortune 100, especially. Also a lot of public entities (gov).
"In 2025, repatriation is still generally an upward trend. Data from the end of 2024 showed that 86% of CIOs planned to move some public cloud workloads back to private cloud or on-premises — the highest on record for the Barclays CIO Survey."
"Real examples of cloud repatriation include Dropbox, Adobe, and GEICO. All three companies moved a significant portion of their infrastructure onto public cloud before moving it to a combination of on-premises and hybrid cloud providers."
Noted: SaaS accounts for 46.10% of market revenue, while PaaS is the fastest-growing segment at 21.35% CAGR
Again, anecdotes. I have public company quarterly statements - you have unsourced quotes. You can quote Geico - I can quote Netflix. If on prem was really growing, I wouldn’t expect Intel to be in the shitter and I would expect Capex to be focused on Colo centers not cloud.
Also when I searched for your quotation the very next paragraph was
“ This trend does not represent a rejection of cloud computing. Organizations continue investing heavily in cloud services, with Gartner forecasting that global cloud spending will reach approximately $723 billion by the end of 2025.”
I too deliberately avoid products from ads, especially ones that annoy me. But I'm under no illusion that ads never work on me, "there's no bad publicity" and all. It takes active effort to avoid defaulting to the options you have already been told about and sometimes you're going to slip up. And since about every company advertises it's not like you really have any other option.
> Some things can be done and are simple/healthy, like escaping social media. Others are fundamentally much harder and not worth the risk/trouble/time.
I think the calculation is very easy, actually. Risk vs Reward. You could even use polymarket to crowdsource funds for the activity!
“I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better.”
“I hate guys that are very, very successful, and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people who like to listen to my success,” he added.
On printed page five of the brochure [0] it mentions
Size of RAM 32 GB ECC
RAM type DDR4
On the one hand, it'd be nice if that was mentioned everywhere that the RAM size was mentioned. On the other hand, perhaps ECC RAM is effectively mandatory for Enterprise equipment, so mentioning it is redundant? IDK, I don't often purchase that sort of stuff.
There are more specific terms for specific types of vehicles, and some of those terms have changed over the past few decades.
UGV = unmanned ground vehicle
UAS = unmanned aerial system
UAV = unmanned aerial vehicle
UUV = unmanned underwater vehicle
Etc
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