Cloud Computing Economics

The new delivery model for information processing, Cloud Computing is offering an attractive value proposition: Dynamic (on-demand) provisioning of IT resources Low cost because of the use of economy of scale and multi-tenancy sharing of resources Shorter time to market in deploying resources Different cost structure; the shift from CAPEX to OPEX But although this [...]

<h3><a href=”http://cloud-computing-economics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/GreenCloud.png”><img class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-663″ title=”GreenCloud” src=”http://cloud-computing-economics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/GreenCloud.png” alt=”” width=”165″ height=”89″ /></a>What is the right cloud architecture to create a green and sustainable cloud? Should we consolidate to huge mega data centers or is there another way to go?</h3> <strong>The analogy</strong> Currently data centers are constructed on the intersection of the electrical energy infrastructure and the [...]

When people think of cloud computing, they almost automatically think of Amazon EC2. Amazon has become the cloud computing company and is commonly perceived as the cheapest, if not the only, IaaS provider. But is this really so? Let’s play Myth Busters as on the Discovery Channel. Cloud Computing Myth Busters! We will compare all [...]

When considering ROI maximization of cloud computing solutions it is crucial to minimize costs of cloud hosting, especially that differences can be very big. Anyone who has tried to compare prices of IaaS providers knows that it is a very tedious task if done manually, since there are different pricing models used, there are subscription [...]

Shortening time to market, increasing transaction volumes, 24 x 7 business, all at lesser costs puts a burden on the information processing of organizations. How should one adapting to the increasing complexity and changes of the organization and its environment? The new delivery model for information processing, Cloud Computing, with an on-demand provisioning of computational [...]

Cloud providers who operate large and medium-scale data centers and offer their services on a pay-per-usage basis face a challenging problem of running data centers in an energy- efficient manner while ensuring that customers’ expectations in terms of availability are met. Cloud providers benefit from significant economies of scale, since they operate large infrastructures shared [...]

As organizations increase their offerings of digital services, the demand for computing and storage capability increases. Also the need for faster, more complex data processing is becoming widespread. Additional demand for computing capability can only be met by increasing the processing capacity of servers within data centers. Along with greater computing capability, businesses have increased [...]

Amid the hype around cloud computing and the millions of dollars pumped into marketing those utility computing services, not every business operation will benefit by moving to the cloud. So as the dust of the hype clears, we are left with the question of whether to cloud or not to cloud. This is a question [...]

During our research we have recently come across an interesting blog with the title “The Case for a Cloud Computing Price War”, where the author  Daniel Berninger argues that Amazon has kept prices for its EC2 offering stable over years, without handing over price performance improvements to its customers. The article further on argues that [...]

In the book “The Big Switch” Nicholas Carr makes a historical analysis to build the idea that the data centers/Internet is following the same developmental path as electric cialis buy power did 100 years ago. At that time companies stopped generating their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid that was fed [...]