FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
Ultimately companies that abdicate their informatics operations like this will give their profits to their data-center operators, who will be empowered to charge them whatever price they want.  Because what&#x27;s their BATNA?  Migrating from Azure to AWS when Microsoft doesn&#x27;t want to let them?<p>Renting your information infrastructure is a great way to reduce startup costs, but down the road, that information infrastructure runs your company.  Trying to outsource it is like trying to outsource upper management.<p>To be clear, I&#x27;m not saying that the optimal amount of cloud services for an established company like FedEx to buy is 0.  They bring in management consultants, too.  But it sure isn&#x27;t 100%.