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

High Scalability

The global cloud computing industry was valued at $371 billion in 2020. A Cloud Provider Absorbs Huge Fixed and Sunk Costs. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. The market value of the worldwide IT industry is $5 trillion.

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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.