Comment by praptak
4 years ago
There is no way back to this kind of lock in. If anything, businesses expect the opposite: maximum ability to transparently move their load between various cloud providers and their own on-prem machines.
Perhaps specialized hardware (GPU) is different but not generic load.
> If anything, businesses expect the opposite: maximum ability to transparently move their load between various cloud providers and their own on-prem machines.
Is this actually true? In my experience, being technology-agnostic is something that engineering orgs prioritize somewhat, but is fairly low on the list of priorities for business orgs, if at all. A lot of the most successful business tech has high degrees of lock-in.
When everybody is doing AI and deep learning, then everybody wants a GPU. Good for Nvidia.
Aren’t their chips from Samsung though?