"Building its own cloud" = leasing data centers from Equinix or other large data center providers. Financial services have challenges using public cloud due to regulatory and compliance requirements. Most of these challenges are self made - artifacts of moving their teams from "This is how we currently do it" to a shared services model.
Curious if they are all in on providers like Redhat Openshift or Pivotal Cloud Foundry as their PaaS layer.
Given how little money Pivotal was making from Cloud Foundry and how expensive each license was, I’d bet a large sum that the answer is no.
(Some context: My last employer had an AWS bill of about $3m/year that was mostly EC2. Running PCF on top of that would have been another $2m/year in licensing. And that was after the volume discount.)
Curious if they are all in on providers like Redhat Openshift or Pivotal Cloud Foundry as their PaaS layer.