Yeah, neither do I. It was so poorly executed. Senior Executives running around trying to figure out what the cloud was. Sad.
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The 2020 Transformation!
Long live CDP!!
This make me sad. AT&T easily could have captured the cloud market. We had the technical skill and physical locations to make a premier service. This is what we get for falling in line behind the "we're the next Netflix" strategy instead of focusing on technical fundamentals.
“ Failure is so rare for AT&T; I don’t see why you feel the need to showcase on of these peculiar examples when we failed to execute for success”
Not sure why this is so downvoted. Do you all not detect sarcasm? It’s the most well executed sarcastic comment I’ve ever seen here.
We (AT&T Business Solutions) were pushing it hard starting in 2011, but all our mobile app partners were on AWS lol. At the time, we were a $126B revenue company with a $179B market cap while Amazon was at $49B revenue and $79B market cap. Now, AT&T is at the same level (actually, market cap down to $135B) while Amazon is a $500+B revenue company with a 2Trillion$ market cap. AT&T never had a chance against AWS.
Failure is so rare for AT&T; I don’t see why you feel the need to showcase on of these peculiar examples when we failed to execute for success
Legg/Chewning are id--ts still let vendors MILKING us $$$$$ on Ticket to Ride program with Service Now
Legg told us that moving everything to the cloud
And Legg also told us that we have to fill out our competency profiles so they would know who already has the skills inside the company. But when layoffs come, it's still what organization you are in and not what you know.
Legg told us that moving everything to the cloud was going to save so much money.
I guess that's why we are now offshoring everything to India.
“ Internal cloud is coming back. Look out for Flexcloud. Azure billing is ki-ling T (thanks Wiley!).”
I believe this is going to happen - Azure is all over us the moment we spin something up; It’s why the constant product managers are on everyone’s ar-e to turn off/decomm everything possible on Azure
Internal cloud is coming back. Look out for Flexcloud. Azure billing is ki-ling T (thanks Wiley!).
at some point, all carriers tried, spent tons of cash and all failed.
Oh wow I had not thought about AIC in years. What did it stand for? AT&T Internet Cloud? Seems like we could have capitalized on the empty space in all those old central offices to host edge computing... Nah, nevermind. The future was always going to be TV and long for content.
The cloud just means "somebody else's computer".
Yea but we used that money for directtv!
I remember, so many wasted hours trying to make THAT acquisition work. The sad story of lower case at&t.
The cloud is a fad. Nobody uses the cloud.
Oh yes, NO competition…..just dreamers wasting $$$$; SAD!!!!