Why Did Amazon Cut Cloud Computing Rates? Part II
Of course, the explanation behind the price decrease may be as simple as economies of scale. After all, the amount of data stored in S3 did triple in 2011, marking its fastest year of growth since 2006. At the same time, the challenge posed by smaller, yet rapidly growing rivals cannot be discounted. Hence, this move may also have been to leverage its first-mover advantage to stave off competition. Even with the more recent EC2 price decreases, Amazon has described it as passing on cost savings to its customers.
Amazon’s Jeff Barr wrote: “As we continue to find ways to lower our own cost structure, we will continue to pass these savings back to our customers in the form of lower prices. Some companies work hard to lower their costs so they can pocket more margin. That’s a strategy that a lot of the traditional technology companies have employed for years, and it’s a reasonable business model. It’s just not ours….”…
Windows 8-based PCs and tablets will start coming out around October ahead of the Christmas rush, according to Bloomberg. Work on the new operating system, which will run on both Intel and ARM chips, is supposed to wrap up this summer.
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack company, today announced they have earned a spot on the AlwaysOn OnDemand Top 100 winners list. Inclusion in the OnDemand 100 signifies market leadership and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Piston Cloud was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
After Apple said early Monday that it would start paying a $10.60-a-year dividend and buy back stock to spend down its massive cash horde – something some people say Steve Jobs would never have done – and after its stock closed at over $600 for the first time ever – you watching this up there, Steve – the company put a figure on the initial sales of the new iPad, something it wouldn’t do during the dividend call. It said it sold three million of the slabs since they went on sale Friday.
Etherios, a leading enterprise cloud computing services company, today announced it is expanding to serve a growing base of customers in North America and worldwide. Fueled by an investment from salesforce.com and a private investment from the energy industry, the company will accelerate the expansion of its practices that focus on salesforce.com’s social, mobile and open cloud technologies.
Callidus Software Inc., the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that the CallidusCloud(TM) Sales Effectiveness suite has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious CODiE(TM) Awards in the "Best Cloud Application/Service," "Best Human Capital Management Solution," and "Best Financial Management Solution" categories. Established by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the CODiEs recognize excellence and achievement in the business software, digital content, and education technology industries.
Oracle’s third quarter earnings conference call will have a healthy dose of Exadata hardware chatter, but a survey indicates that a little more elaboration on the cloud computing story is in order.