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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/26/22 7:10 AM, Tom Beecher wrote:<br>
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some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss
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direct operational control.<br>
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<div>Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what
happens when the Magic Cloud provider fails in a way that
isn't possible to anticipate because it's all black box. </div>
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<div>Saving 12 months of opex $ sounds great, except when you
lose 18 months of opex $ in 2 days completely outside of your
ability to control. </div>
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<p>I think for the vast majority of cloud users they'd do a way
worse job at uptime than the providers. Whether that applies to
some telcos, I'm not sure.</p>
<p>Mike<br>
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