Deborah Melkin muddies up the waters a bit:
My first reaction to this sentence was: Oh look, he assumes that everyone is in the cloud…
My next reaction was: Oh look, he acknowledged that maybe everyone isn’t in the clouds in his follow-up examples.
Since the cloud was introduced, the assumption was always going to be everyone will moving to the cloud. “You’ll be behind if you don’t learn the cloud,” they said. Then as people either moved or started looking into moving their databases, they realized they just couldn’t – whether it was due to missing features, higher than expected costs, etc. There was always some reason.
Click through for some of the challenges and realities of organizations where certain cloud-first or cloud-only services would be a major challenge, versus other services that are typically easier to deal with.