Cloud Computing: Verizon Brings Pay-As-You-Go Pricing to Government
June 1, 2015
Grazed from NextGov. Author: Frank Konkel.
When you think about the hallmarks of cloud computing — on-demand service, resource pooling, elasticity, scalability and the like — it’s easy to overlook how you pay for those cloud services. Federal agencies often still use a fixed pricing model, where an agency purchases an allotment of cloud services and pays for them, whether they are fully used or not.
However, in the spirit of true cloud computing, it appears cloud vendors are coming around to offering government customers the same pay-as-you-go approach popular among commercial customers. Verizon Enterprise Solutions, buoyed by demand from existing federal customers, announced last week it is offering a new consumption model for federal customers who use its Enterprise Cloud platform…
The instance-based virtual machines offering allows customers to “utilize cloud computing resources on-demand and pay for only the capacity used,” according to a blog post by Verizon’s Kevin Irland…
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