The Cost of Cloud in the Sky Computing Part 1
Looking at ways to increase IT infrastructure without worrying about power, heat, space and other constraints…. Cloud in the sky computing (or cloud computing) may be an upcoming solution. Cloud in the sky essentially is buying
Amazon Web Services is an example. Costs, as I understand them are about $0.10 per hour of usage plus storage costs at $.15 per gig per month for a clone of an HP Tower server. If an application is hosted and not used there is no cost. Not bad. I suppose we could add to the advantages that they back up the whole system without you worrying about it. On the other hand, your data is out of your control.
Galorath recently did a study of the costs / benefits of force.com, Salesforce’s environment with some similarities to Amazon. I need to find out if our results are publishable. But I can tell you we found force. com to be attractive in the appropriate environment.
We will use SEER for IT to do a general analysis of cloud versus local computers soon.
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Cloud computing is an indistinct, typically large cluster of indistinct (virtualized) machines which provide utility-style access to computational resources. ‘Cloud in the sky’ computing is what I plan on painting on my 3 year old’s wall.