Monday 15 March 2010
All the major technology companies have their offerings. And it seems like everyone is entering the market – even the hosting companies want in on the land rush. In theory, migration to the Cloud makes business sense; you’re enabling companies to rent computing power that would cost them too much to buy. n our model, we’re allowing companies to pool their resources on the supply side of Cloud Computing and leverage a much bigger, better shared infrastructure on the demand side of the equation. Cloud Computing is about lower costs and greater use of resources. Greater flexibility, more options and overall, more computing power. One of the areas of Cloud Computing that still needs to be addressed is the issue of pricing.
Pricing the Cloud has gone beyond complex and confusing and entered the realm of ridiculous on some levels. The odd thing is that everyone agrees that Cloud Computing pricing needs to be standardized. Many companies want this to be an industry group that develops standardization. As a company that has what I would call truly transparent pricing, I’ve been confused about this for a while. In fact, the parties on the supply side of Cloud Computing – elastic computing providers, managed hosting companies, platform-as-a-service shops, big iron manufacturers, etc.
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