Making the business case for public cloud trading
July 5, 2013
Grazed from ITNews. Author: Stephan Reid.
We are entering the second wave of cloud computing: The Public Cloud Economics. Most enterprises understand cloud topologies (virtualisation) and privacy levels (private, virtual-private, and public), or simply the different resource types (IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS).
Some have even embraced pretty sophisticated technologies like cloud bursting – the dynamic relocation of workloads. However, compared to this sophisticated understanding of technology, understanding of the current or even future economic models of cloud computing lags behind…
More than 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 also with many innovative business models, such as Amazon’s AWS Reserved Instance Marketplace last September…
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