Looks like we are following the same path as Verizon in regard to cloud. Is AT&T ready to be a prime contender against Amazon and Microsoft? Is this going to be another disaster similar to what happened to Verizon?
http://amigobulls.com/articles/cloud-ambitions-could-threaten-the-dividend-yield-for-att-stock
We aren't really going to compete in the consumer of business cloud app/server space. We don't have the talent and we aren't willing to invest in the talent to do it. Our cloud initiatives are largely cost saving measures as it relates to IT infrastructure and labor. Our executives are mainly using it has a thing for them to point at to prove we are innovating in order to distract from the true motivations.
Amazon's AWS has been around for 10 years. Google's cloud platform has been around for 8, and Microsoft's Azure has been in the market for 6 years. By the time we get to 2020, we will be lucky to be where they were in 2010. Our target architectures are already behind what our competition has in place today.
Supposedly the special sauce will be the capability for customers to provision their own network services and our ability to design, deploy and certify entire platforms with only about 3 people. Again, cost savings.
AT&T, is a silo company today, will be best ,,, say hire Amazon or Google to work their platform of the future, the support teams That we have in place, belong in the legacy world, we can't even share resources in t the PCG segment at ATO, tipically works this way: a new initiative, after few years is half way done, and they create a new one, never seen a project taken all the way to completion, funny,,
I have a relative who worked at Verizon. they thought it would be great to move into the cloud service group until they were all laid off. right up to the last day some thought it was a joke. Receiving the pink slip changed their minds.
Agreed
AWS is pretty entrenched for big data warehousing and running server space. I honestly do not see how AT&T can make a dent in that market without companies spending tons of money to move everything from AWS to whatever half-baked tools AT&T is going to present.
That is my impression as well. They put out a lot of training for cloud computer, bragging that they are doing it completely open source and made it look like they have the entire infrastructure build out and working perfectly. The problem is Amazon has a very mature infrastructure and pretty much dominates the industry with AWS certification in high demand. AT&T will need to spend several billion to try to compete and knowing AT&T that will be a waste of billions/
I worked with the incubation cloud group at AT&T for a couple of years. Incompetent and unprofessional through and through. They have no chance