Red Hat CEO: Public Cloud “Obscenely Expensive at Scale”

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Whatever the public cloud adoption numbers, the private cloud is paying off for Red Hat (and other vendors). As Red Hat executives touted on a recent earnings call, several of Red Hat’s top deals for the quarter included OpenStack, and “the number of times [a] top-30 deal included OpenStack or OpenShift this quarter tripled from Q4 a year ago.”

The question is, why?

According to Whitehurst, “The public cloud gets to become obscenely expensive at scale.”

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