Cloud Economics 2.0: German Stock Exchange starts cloud computing exchange
July 2, 2013
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Phil LeClare.
Most enterprises understand cloud topologies (virtualization) and privacy levels (private, virtual-private, and public), as well as the different resource types (IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS). Some enterprises embrace relatively sophisticated technologies like cloud bursting – the dynamic relocation of workloads. However, when it comes to current and future economic models of cloud computing, understanding lags behind.
A year ago, Forrester introduced the corporate perspective of cloud economics with James Staten’s report Drive Savings and Profits with Cloud Economics. The major cloud providers surprised us with many innovative business models, such as Amazon’s AWS Reserved Instance Marketplace last September…
As an alternative to the fully flexible on-demand model, customers can also buy a one- or three-year contract for a compute instance and save up to 60 percent. The risk is that you will buy more than you need or that you will buy the wrong instance types. The marketplace does allow you to sell off these half-used contracts to other customers…
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