public cloud

also referred to as: public clouds

5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Martín Casado · across every show →

Everything said about public cloud, oldest first

Jul 15, 2017 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Casado: Cloud and SaaS represent only 6% of global IT spending
“Cloud, if you look at it is something like if you take SAS and public cloud is maybe, you know, 220 to two hundred and forty billion dollar market. So relative to the four trillion dollar market, we're only about six percent of the way there.”
Martín Casado Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 1:41 Trends in and the Future of Infrastructure
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levine: On-premise datacenters will disappear in favor of cloud models
“I think that the economics and the way that data centers are going to be built is going to drive everyone to private or public clouds, and the notion of the on-prem data center starts to disappear.”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:35 a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Paula Long: SMBs will predominantly adopt hybrid architectures spanning metro and public clouds
“In fact, I think metro clouds for the small and medium businesses are gonna be, those are, tend to be local cloud I mean, a service provider's providing On and off-prem services for their customers. I think that's the way most sites will go. Where some will be…”
Paula Long Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:02 a16z Podcast | Dumb Storage Gets Smart
Jul 23, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Mark Casey: Capital Group is buying AI choke points across chips, clouds, and models
“And then what I'm mostly looking for, where are the choke points right now? And there's a bunch. It's semiconductors and semiconductor capital equipment. There's only a handful of companies that are good at that. There's only three big public clouds. There's o…”
Mark Casey Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 21:22 Mark Casey (Capital Group): Public Market and Macro Perspectives
Nov 10, 2025 negative
Insight
Truell: Public cloud providers are figuring out extreme scale on the fly
“You think of these public clouds as they have it all together but really it's a very small set of customers for the highest, highest level of scale, and they're figuring it out on the fly.”
Michael Truell Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 15:14 Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
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