The following post represents a republication of this Virtustream blog post. The post was authored by the Virtustream editorial team.
Fathers and sons. Start-ups and enterprises. Will they ever understand each other? As it is in life, when companies grow and mature they become responsible for more sensitive information, operate under higher stakes and restrictions and require more complex services to run their businesses and keep them at peak performance.
While he doesn’t see it, the alpha developer and his enterprise-IT dad, though they are both in the same field technically, have vastly different needs. The advantages a web-scale solution brings to a host of use cases including a video-game start-up are very real, but the cloud is not one size fits all. There is a complexity that comes with the legacy mission critical apps and sensitive data inherent in an enterprise. Albeit not sexy, security, compliance, and reliability are non-negotiable for the Enterprise customer.
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