Much of Microsoft's growth is Azure, but I wonder how long it can keep up.
I imagine at some point in the future (perhaps by 2030) there will be some sort of self-managing set of systems that you can just put on your premises.
There's just too much money to be made for that not to be the case.
Infrastructure is hard, but operations are becoming more and more streamlined.
> I imagine at some point in the future (perhaps by 2030) there will be some sort of self-managing set of systems that you can just put on your premises.
That's not really the direction Microsoft is going in. Cloud PC (virtual desktop infrastructure) is an Azure only service; there's no on-prem version. Licensing to build it yourself is complex.
They may likely end up with on-prem islands for purchase/rent/whatever, like AWS has, and IBM pioneered in the 60s?
I imagine at some point in the future (perhaps by 2030) there will be some sort of self-managing set of systems that you can just put on your premises.
There's just too much money to be made for that not to be the case.
Infrastructure is hard, but operations are becoming more and more streamlined.