Next-gen cloud services could save users almost $2 billion a year
June 22, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Jack Schofield.
ElasticHosts is offering a next-generation cloud service that it claims could halve the cost of computing for Linux IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) customers. What’s more, the change is relatively simple, and could well become widespread, thanks to Linux LXC containers and the Docker automated deployment system.
ElasticHosts’ chief executive Richard Davies explained in a telephone interview that most IaaS customers pay for virtual machines (VMs) on contracts that run for up to two years. Because usage isn’t constant, the VM capacity is mostly underused, though at peak times, it may not be big enough — see graph below…
The ElasticHosts alternative is to use containers, where a single VM can run containers for many different customers. The container can easily be scaled up and down, up to predetermined maximum such as 64GB. ElasticHosts charges only for the capacity used. Users are familiar with paying for the use of bandwidth. With Elastic Containers, they can be billed separately for on-demand memory, processor and disk use as well…
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