Why monopolies and commoditization would pollute the cloud

Why monopolies and commoditization would pollute the cloud

There’s a common assumption that the Cloud’s destiny is to be a public utility. Mark Thiele, of data center operator Switch, argues that would kill competition and innovation, and that IT can be a better option.One of the prevailing assumptions around the cloud computing market is that it will drive towards an über-simplified delivery model that is similar to a utility. Further, this utility model will largely remove the potential for differentiation by most vendors and will lead to a race to the bottom from a pricing perspective.There is ample evidence commoditization is occurring, and we could point to almost any area of IT to see it, from

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