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First up at #AWSreInvent is McKinsey revisiting their 2009 report on Cloud Computing with their talk "We were so wrong, you'd have been a muppet to follow our advice" ... damn, daydreaming again.
X : What did McKinsey do?
Me : Clearing the Air on Cloud, 2009. Basically an argument that cloud was for startups but proper enterprises would be better off investing in their data centres and adopting a cloud model would be a money-losing mistake - bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/whe…
Me : Clearing the Air on Cloud, 2009. Basically an argument that cloud was for startups but proper enterprises would be better off investing in their data centres and adopting a cloud model would be a money-losing mistake - bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/whe…
... at the time, I remember endless large companies dismissing the cloud and pointing to McKinsey as justification. It was a definite #plonkers moment and something I'm sure has cost huge amounts in the scramble to catch up.
