On the creeping cost of the cloud

Editor Neil McNaughton compares the 20th Century Telcos’ evolution with the 21st Century birth of the Cloud provider. Both promised cheap bandwidth - comms for the telcos, compute for the clouds. But while comms costs are massively down, compute costs seem to be rising. And the unregulated cloud providers are much more successful at adding bells, whistles and lock-in to their services. With OSDU a case in point. But where is the end user in all of this?

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Oil IT Journal.
Published
2024-08-31
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https://doi.org/10.69894/857214
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Cloud Computing and Resource Management
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On the creeping cost of the cloud

Neil McNaughton
Oil IT Journal.
Cloud Computing and Resource Management
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On the creeping cost of the cloud

Neil McNaughton
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Abstract

Editor Neil McNaughton compares the 20th Century Telcos’ evolution with the 21st Century birth of the Cloud provider. Both promised cheap bandwidth - comms for the telcos, compute for the clouds. But while comms costs are massively down, compute costs seem to be rising. And the unregulated cloud providers are much more successful at adding bells, whistles and lock-in to their services. With OSDU a case in point. But where is the end user in all of this?

Oil IT Journal.Vol. 29(278)
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
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Cloud Computing and Resource Management
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