The Economics of Cloud Computing
I have summarized some of the horizontal business cases for cloud computing & on-demand services in general in this post.
- 100TB of storage space on cloud can save $1M per year by leveraging Storage as a Service
- 100 server provisioning can save >1MN per year, reduces time-to-market from 6-8 weeks to few min by leveraging Infrastructure as a Service
- Reduce TCO of Software by 50% by leveraging Software as a Service & Platform as a Service
Summary
I have consolidated, analyzed, summerized and unified the information from various internet resources. The business cases are somewhat simplistic & academic in nature; take it with a pinch of salt. It also needs to be contextualized to the customer scenario to be more meaningful:
- Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network
- Microsoft Online Services Business Value
- Google Online Calculator
- FPWeb.Net Managed MOSS 2007 Hosting
- Inetium Competitive Analysis
- SalesForce CRM Editions Price Comparison
Your feedback, thoughts are welcome.
Comments
Read your post on Nasscom Blog. Good one. Especially the one on Security is neat! Also heard about you from Avinash. We should connect during Aug Emerge Session in Delhi.
Posted by: Suresh Sambandam | July 16, 2009 02:10 PM
Thank you Suresh for your note. It was encouraging to know that you liked my security related blog entry, more so; it is my pleasure to receive complements from Founder & CEO of OrangeScape.
Let me see, the NASSCOM Delhi plan for me could be still tentative; we can always exchange mails bhavin_raichura@infosys.com
Posted by: Bhavin Jayantilal Raichura | July 16, 2009 07:48 PM