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The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

High Scalability

Would you really trust some committee or government agency to draw this line correctly? The global cloud computing industry was valued at $371 billion in 2020. A Cloud Provider Absorbs Huge Fixed and Sunk Costs. There is no structural separation as there is with a train service. So, the cloud is not a monopoly.

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Talent Strategy: ‘It’s About Being Intentional’

Chief Executive

Many companies were caught off guard by Covid, by the need to scale down and then back up quickly, and by the mass resignations during and after the pandemic’s peak. And the already significant fixed costs of adding staff are only getting steeper. The way she knows it’s working? “We Verizon seems to be in the minority.