On 4/30/2022 11:34 AM, Brandon wrote:
The idea is it's a cost savings to not have to pay for servers and floorspace and only pay for the compute you actually use.
Then it becomes "Well, it's a bit more expensive but I don't have to pay for people dedicated to maintaining the infrastructure."
Then it ends up "I need to be able to make full control decisions for my equipment, and [Cloud Company] doesn't let me, so we'll buy servers and open a datacenter."
Government contracting follows the same swing between gov employees and contractors.
You forgot that the short-sighted company that just let go of their IT staff then realizes that they DO need to pay for people to maintain those workstations or laptops they issued everyone. That even the extended warranty doesn't cover software issues and that the infrastructure in the building can still fail with users who can't track down a cable that is loose or disconnected, and are often prohibited by company Policy from even attempting to diagnose things themselves.
Then of course they want to hire somebody with a master's in computer science with 2-5 years experience that knows all their specialized programs inside and out and pay them $25,000 a year to maintain things, and complain about a "labor shortage" when they can't find any candidates that are a perfect match, all say they need to learn one or two of their programs, or just graduated and have no "business experience", only experience maintaining computers for friends and family, or only have an associates degree, etc.
It's not like they can't learn and be trained on the more highly specialized programs, no they need somebody that can "hit the ground running" with no training time.
