Friend of mine at a payroll processor you've all heard of was excited to migrate to AWS because it took 4-6 weeks for IT to provision a new VM. On their app team's dedicated hardware!
So much of the Fortune 500 lust for public cloud seems to come down to working around inefficient IT procurement and provisioning processes. They haven't automated, they don't maintain enough excess capacity, they haven't managed vendor relationships to assure fast order turn-around, financial controls are too onerous, etc.
Everything's virtualized but otherwise they're still operating like it's 1995.
So much of the Fortune 500 lust for public cloud seems to come down to working around inefficient IT procurement and provisioning processes. They haven't automated, they don't maintain enough excess capacity, they haven't managed vendor relationships to assure fast order turn-around, financial controls are too onerous, etc.
Everything's virtualized but otherwise they're still operating like it's 1995.