Is cloud computing about to get cheaper because of Linux?
April 9, 2014
Grazed from CBR. Author: Joe Curtis.
Cloud could finally prove cheaper than on-premise thanks to a new Linux-based technology that renders cloud hosting half the price of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it is claimed. Cloud-hosting provider Elastichosts today announced its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution, basing it on Linux containerisation technology that allows for more flexible pricing.
While providers including AWS and Google offer on-demand services, they actually charge based on the overall capacity of servers being used. But Elastichosts’ IaaS solution, Elastic Containers, charges by real-time usage, measured every 15 minutes, meaning customers would pay less when the servers are less busy, such as overnight…
As co-founder Richard Davies told CBR: "You go to an Amazon today, buy an 8GB virtual machine, and it’s on-demand in the sense that you can turn it off when you like and turn it on when you like. "But if you take a standard IT workload, there are periods where the server is at a high load but during a 24/7 working week, [and] there are significant periods when it’s on low use. "So there will be points where you’re using 3GB and paying for 8GB. The typical user is nowhere near their capacity limit."…
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