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Red Hat CEO: Public cloud “obscenely expensive at scale”

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Matt Asay
Jun 1, 2015

Don’t give up on the private cloud just yet.

That’s one message from my interview with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst last week. While public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure are riding high, Whitehurst insists that he keeps hearing that for certain kinds of apps, private cloud offers better performance and lower costs.

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