Develop a Position on Cloud Platform as a Service
September 2, 2010The Situation. “The Cloud” has become a major hype area as cost conscious enterprises explore the potential of renting IT services (infrastructure, applications, development platforms) to save costs over internal provisioning (i.e. buying and maintaining infrastructure). The Opportunity. Where Infrastructure … Continue reading
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Facts & Stats: Who’s Implementing Cloud Storage?
June 30, 2010A clear majority (more than 70%) are evaluating, planning to deploy, or have deployed cloud-enabled IaaS solutions: Substantially lower infrastructure capital cost and rapid deployment are what make clouds an attractive opportunity. Cloud-based services have significantly lower capital cost barriers … Continue reading
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Selecting an IaaS Partner is Like Renting a Truck
June 28, 2010External public compute clouds are expected to play a major role in hosting selected application workloads in the near future. With cloud hype growing, so is the number of potential cloud computing partners. Substantially lower infrastructure capital cost and rapid … Continue reading
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Cloud Services are a Natural Fit for Small Enterprises
May 4, 2010For cloud evaluators and adopters, capital cost savings and rapid application deployment are strongly positive reasons for adopting cloud solutions. Taken together these add up to significantly lower barriers to entry for cloud computing solutions compared to in-house developed solutions. … Continue reading
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