The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying
>Ms Wang and Mr Casado have suggested that firms should think about building their own private clouds to keep costs downYeah I distantly remember "on prem", too. Does everyone, everywhere really need to be equipped to hyperscale at a moment's notice? Wouldn't it be better not to be beholden to a megacorp that serves you with 30 pages of opaque billing for business-critcal functionality? Doesn't hiring external consultants to manage your fucking cloud infrastructure seem like sort of a risk as compared to keeping the services-wrangler in-house?...I don't have an MBA, so these are half-serious questions. If anyone can chime in with (at least) a half-serious answer, I'd halfway appreciate it. I understand that The Economist is the voice of global capital, and global capital has decided that there's money in them thar clouds, but still!